Rank IX Aircraft and Reshuffles to the Aviation and Ground Vehicle Research Trees

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Whilst this thread is active, do you mind asking what the plan is for Rank VII aircraft stock loadouts?

Tornado ADVs for example had/has 2x 9Ls and 2x Skyflash DFs stock because they were Rank VIII aircraft, they are now rank VII and no rank VII aircraft gets SARH stock (such as the Phantoms with 2x Aim-9D stock)

Will ADVs be loosing their SARH stock? or will all Rank VII aircraft get SARH stock? This stock grind is a significant reason these are often skipped by players these days with the extreme compression

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are you sure it wasnt while there was a 50% SL sale ?

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Hm could be true, but that would be hilarious to make the Wiki Show the values of an sale… but its perfectly 50% and in the time the chrismas sale usualy goes, so i guess yes ure right…

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Right now rank IX is pointless imho. As we all know matchmaking works with br’s and doesn’t take into account rank.
Rank IX should be exclusive of future 5th Gen fighters (if and when they’ll eventually come).
It’s a fact, adding now rank IX will make the grind even worse for sure.

We don’t need more ranks, we need more decompression and historical loadout for those planes still not having it (and this could be done without event touching the br of such vehicles). This way we’ll have more balance, more fun,. Queue time issue? I dont’ think so, but just in case… smaller lobbies, not by much btw.

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am i the only one who think that making rank 9 and adding more br(14.7) dont do shit cuz all what under 14.3 didnt change br so the dicopresion happning only on top tier and not on other brs???

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You better remove the free anti-aircraft guns. It’s complete nonsense. You gave noobs anti-aircraft guns, and instead of doing anything, they shoot down allied planes. This has happened countless times already, you’ve created hell with this garbage.

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Gaijin need more ranks to sell the whales more prems ;)

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Did your mother drink when she was pregnant? Why would you ever put the F-14A at 12.3?

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Welp if everyone call it so damn trash, worse then the F-18A then why not?

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Huge thanks for following up on my question!

Helps me try to plan my progress before March

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I started researching the Japanese Su-30MKM. My question is: will I be able to finish researching it and purchase it later if it gets moved to Rank IX, or will I need to unlock and buy multiple Rank VIII aircraft to be able to finish researching the Su-30MKM?

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You have until the beginning of march roughly to unlock it.

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it kinda is worse than the F/A-18A only thing that keeps it 12.7 is the AIM-54A cause gaijin thinks its useful

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Why didn’t you warn that you were going to remove OBJ140 from the store? I wanted it.

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Let’s bring it down to 12.3… It’s nowhere near as good as the F-18 and F-15 at 12.7

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Only thing we have to know is how many vehicles will be needed to unlock rank IX?
hope it’s not 5, something like 3ish would be good

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I think it’s best not to cope. It’s likely going to be 5

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Funny how now suddenly folders are based on similar vehicles and not purely by BR like the devs said less than a year ago…

The only consistent thing about gaijin is their inconsistency.

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Ok without notice you added IX tier, now we don’t get 50% to research because you need have IX tier plane, on VIII era - 1.0 BR don’t work for it… You should announce that with a given time…

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As im still researching it will I be able to get it without going back and getting the mig 29s? I dont have much of an interest in air either way (GRB main) just want to know.