Rafale's reign in a top-tier RB?

and then enters 12.7 BR

Well its pointless being 11.7 with less AA than the 11.3 version.

Kh-38MT is a pretty enhancement, both in range and power, compared to the Kh-29/Vihkr given on the 11.3 variant

and it’s still an Attacker, not a Fighter.

but suits yourself, and report this lacks.

F-15A in-game is 1994 variant due to flares. AMRAAM went into service prior to that. So why is F-15A not have AMRAAM?

It is because developers discretion. Same reason F-16 ADF didn’t have it until just recently.

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Dont know anything about ground but in air RB its pointless.

Im.not down with putting vics at high BRs just because it can destroy ground in a mode where that equates to a few more silver lions

Oh, then go report it,… take AIM-120, and make it 13.7:
→ F-16A’s being upgraded got from 12.7 to 13.3 → so 13.0 to 13.7
→ also the couple AIM-120 and AIM-9M is 13.7 already (F-15CMSIP)

like this the F-18A would be placed 12.7 (where it should belong by the way, instead of 12.3), to close the gap, as AIM7M+9L couple was 12.7 before the introduction of F-18A, it would decompress BR from underneath.

and making the F-15J the only F-15 under 13.3 → might be fun to see Japanese having better BR than US ones.

It has wrong radar for that, it needs PSP radar
It’s an amalgamation of a bunch of pre msip and post msip f15s combined into 1 big Frankenstein plane

And then for some reason gaijin doesn’t think psp radar had tws and instead only ram which means they think a bunch of f15s in service with amraams didn’t have tws like okay bro

You are completely missing the point. It’s not about F-15A having or not having AMRAAMs it’s about adding or removing features for a balance reason at the br bracket this vehicle is. Thats why F-15A from 1994 doesn’t have AMRAAMs, otherwise you would look at amazing 13.0 or 12.7 aircraft without countermeasures (would be so fun and balanced ain’t it?).

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no i’m not,… that’s exactly what i’m telling you,…

F-16’s got buffed to decompress and they’ve been sent to 13.3 thanks to historical AIM-120A payload that was pending.

If we were to further decompress lower BR’s:
F-18A BR : 12.3 → 12.7
As told earlier the AIM-7M+9L belongs to 12.7BR

F-15A (1994) BR : 13.0 → 13.7 + addition of AIM-120A
Real time events in 1993-4:
F-15A being into the ANG units which a part of USAF
USAF recieved the AIM-120A and serviced them in 1993, by extension the F-15A was used with AIM-120A since 1993.

Then 2 options comes for F-15C(MSIP):
Fold F-15C with F-15A
or
Add F-15C(MSIP) with some AESA radar [namely AN/APG-63(V)3] + IRST → 14.0
Until it gets AIM-9X then AIM-120C/D through the Golden Eagle program
such missiles are considered to enter the game in the likes of 3 to 9 months (by some dataminers, so nothing yet accurate)

F-15E could stay 14.0 for now.

AFTERMATHS:
12.3/12.7/13.0 finally got more deserved space from superiors platforms, and can live through the proposed change wihtout getting much attention from Devs.

namely:
F-16A Blk10
MiG-29A
Su-27 (13.0 one)
Tornadoes
Harriers
F-4EJ Kai
J-8F
JH-7A
Mirage 2000C
Mirage 2000D R1
Mirage 2000D RMV
Mirage 4000
Belgian F-16A Blk 10
Ja-37’s
Netz
Kurnass 2000

This Push up can also be the reason to Create a 14.7 → in which Rafale and EF-2000 will instantly go to)
F-15E could then take 14.3 (if 14.7) and some other aircrafts too.

in fine, the ulterior motive is to decompress the whole Jet Era (from 10.7 to 14.3 currently)

Gaijin probably want to keep SARH only F-15 in the game as an opposite to Su-27.

it only has 9Ls but i absolutely agree that Hornet has no business at 12.3, only 0.3 br above a Phantom of all things.

It should go to 14.3. Sure it isn’t as complete of a package as Eurofighter (another mechanical radar aircraft with huge TWR) but it is still not 14.0 material like Hornets.

It’s probably just this
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fixed, thanks

to me it should go 14.3 once 14.7 is open.

I thought I’d mention that the compared to the version of the EF we have in-game, the rafale should have a higher AOA limit than the EF, so at low speeds the rafale might be able to get the nose around quicker for one turn. However in WT both planes have no limits and can do backflips for fun.

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F-15A US

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even Wiki.warthunder gives us the same information:

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