How is Gaijin still denying the armor reports??
Cause the US can’t have anything meta.
F-14?
F-15A?
F-15C?
F-15E?
F-16A?
F-16C?
Those all weren’t meta?
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Only the persian F-14A was ever meta at it’s BR, no the base phoenix was a noob trap even when it first arrived. From the time of it’s addition the F-14A never crossed 60% WR, while the Mig-23MLD at the same time sat at 61% to 65% WR for the entire, short, relevance of the F-14A. The German MLA also sat between 60% to 65% WR during this time as well. If you want an OP aircraft from the quote on quote “F-14A reign” look to the Mig-23, not the F-14A.
The F-14B has been a joke since it’s introduction so I’m not even going to address that poor thing.
Very no for this thing, the SU-27 and Gripen ran it’s fade like it was going out of style WR wise, bouncing between 45% WR at launch and then settling at around 52 to 55% WR, meanwhile the SU-27 ran a 60 to 65% WR for most of the patch, the true victor however was the Gripen which sat unmatched at 80 to 85% WR for functionally the entire patch. The Gripen was meta, not the F-15A.
Only aircraft on the list with a above bar WR at launch when compared to the big 3, sitting roughly between 58 to 65% wr during the patch, with the SU-27SM being between 55% to 58%, not the best preforming aircraft of the patch however, that being the Gripen HU in the Italian tree rocking a 67 to 72% wr during the patch.
Nope, arrived and sported a 40 to 50% WR while everyone ground the SU-34 which sat at a whopping 83 to 87% WR, once the BR changes hit with the arrival of the EF and Rafale and people stopped grinding the SU-34 to ruin GRB matches the F-15E settled into having a 55% to 58% WR. The F-15E was not even remotely relevant during it’s patch cycle and was very quickly shoved out of the proximity of the spotlight by the Rafale, who, to this day, is still the highest preforming top tier aircraft in ARB.
Nope again, the F-16A block 10 had a rolling WR of 40% to 50% after introduction (It still has this WR range, poor thing has been trash since launch), with the ADF sitting at 67% WR, meanwhile the Mig-29-13 was sitting at 79% to 85% WR … So no, the Mig-29-13 was meta during the apex predators update. About a month after said update the ADF had dropped all the way down to a 60% WR and the Block 10 rose to about a 50% ish average, while the Mig-29-13 remained hardlocked right around 70% WR.
Once again, nope, at least this time its not an actual large margin, the Mig-29SMT still beat out the F-16C in WR as it remained hardlocked right in and around 60% WR, with the F-16C never crossing 60% WR and largely remaining right around 56 to 58% WR. Oddly enough if you want the aircraft that did the actual best in the atilla patch time frame, look no further than the Yak-141, it was able to sustain a 60%+ WR after it’s addition and well through the atilla patch time frame, the export F-16s also fared quite well, with the F-16AJ being a highlight sitting in and around 65% wr for most of the patch.
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I mean even on the ground, the M1, IPM1 and M1A2 stomped ridiculously hard on their releases while the US winrates also reached over 60% in the month after the release of the SEPv1 (although I would argue that this was more due to FOTM effects than the SEPv1 being exceptionally strong, as it wasn’t really anything special at the time).
Holy cope, you act like their air forces aren’t the best in the game, not to mention the F-15E being game breaking on release. Every other heli would have to get this ‘MeTa’ armor to be balanced or everyone will cry like T-90M spall liner again.
Win rate means nothing…
Look at overall player performance, even then it’s not great because of ‘smart’ users…
F-15I*
F-15I is better
are you talking about its dev server performance?
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the f15e wouldnt have been a problem if they didnt add the f15i which came with 229 engines. it wouldve been a more sluggish C
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Win rate is a direct measure of the effectiveness of a vehicle, reminder as well that statshark was not a thing when a majority of the vehicles cited above so there is no “player performance” metric like statshark creates.
Oh no never mind, why am I even trying to argue this with you, should have read this line first.
Next you are going to tell me that the AIM-120C-5 is an upgrade to the AIM-120A/B and the KH-38MT is not incredibly broken.
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No; it measures how autistic your team is.
Should be an upgrade, not my fault gaijin modeled it wrong. The KH-38MT is extremely broken, but just a single CAP plane can kill the launch platform when patrolling.
Also the F-15I has a better cm layout than the american eagle does having some CM launchers directly next to the engines
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Well the US F-15’s could receive the ALE-58 (USAF designation for the BOL CM (LAU-138) dispensers), and if BOL was faithfully modeled it would be less of an issue.
They could alternately model more advanced Flare compositions than the '50s era generic Flares (MJU-7), or the larger size countermeasure magazines in the MJU-13 or -17 to provide Larger caliber options at the expense of quantity.
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US pioneered stealth using german engineers russia cant even make a half baked one and china is only other country with domestic stealth cause they stole documents on them
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Only other country that could maybe get stealth is germany as they built it at same time @zryanovos
it never went out of the concept phase and didnt even had a single test flight
it also didnt have a radar or any weapons it would be able to fire
it isnt even known what weapons it would have used
i know im just saying thats why no one else gets it
Best in the world yes. In game, that’s a stretch and fn half. Every other nation has a better version of US stuff.
What over achieving DIRCM isn’t good enough for you that you have to come in the Comanche thread and talk smack? They had the Comanche armor in the dev server but proceeded to remove it with NO explanation given. Multiple threads locked by the mods.
Lack of data, making other nations look better, or just certain nation’s main crying on the forums, the reason is beyond me as to why they nerf US so bad.
Name ONE top tier US vehicle that is the best out of any nation. I’ll wait.
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