War Thunder stopped being historically accurate a long time ago. It wouldn’t hurt to give it a CM pod.
Just give it AIM-7E’s and call it a day. No need for a BR change.
Where/when/give exemple
It never got them, the air force F4’s didn’t get the ability to carry CM’s until the D variant.
F-5C comes to mind.
Vehicles not fighting their historical counter parts is another.
Lots of vehicles not getting what they historically carried for balance while others get what they never carried for balance.
People have been asking to remove its CMs for literal years as well. And nothing came out of that.
Gaijin does what they want, and clearly they don’t want to give the F4c CMs
Because it’s premium and still sells really well.
Look at how they historically changed the Italian M60, once the thing slowed down in sales it got nerfed. If it was as popular as the F-5C it would have never been changed.
As for the F-4C. The US really doesn’t need any help at that BR range, giving the thing CMs just gonna bloat up a already bloated win rate for the US at 9.0+
Me 262 fighting Sabres lol
Me-262 C fighting Sabres,… the C is important as i don’t recall any document saying that C variants ever fought.
Still this problem is because of compressed BR and Balance.
Yeah the Me 262C models are even worse than the A models and still fight Sabres, its annoying and pointless to argue about WT being historical at this point in time.
Gaijin gave the MiG-23M R-60Ms when it released despite never carrying them because it was dogshit and needed an upper.
F-5C saw those Pods added on foreign variants, this is not coming from nowhere.
That’s BR compression related - not the discussed problem there.
Well i agree with you…
French Aircrafts should have their Magic-II with IRCCM and 50G dual plane maneuvrability, on 11.0 Super Étendard Modernised.
And as well, we should have MICA’s ormf both typer for M2K-5F
Doesn’t matter, the US version never carried flares or even AIM-9Es.
Im not discussing anything about about BR compression, just bringing up as to point out that the game is not historically accurate.
The French should, at the very least, get some flares on its F-8 but it doesn’t because ?
It never had flares, not even on the extended life variant that is F-8P → but i would rename current one, put Magic-2 and RWR on it.
That’s my issue, one jet, like the F-5C gets unhistorical upgrades just because why not.
But then the French get shafted because it’s historical. We know the F-8 could carry flares and it did with other nations but…here we are.
Quick edit: I wouldn’t want the thing to get magic 2 unless it also gets flares because they will move it right up into gen 4 territory.
It seems it did get them right at the time it was relegated to reserves. Was the Air Force thinking it would only be shooting down bombers? I guess so.
What I found is it did get them…when it was given to the Air Force Reserve in the 70s when gen 4 planes were starting to replace them. It really is a victim of the missiles only doctrine the Air Force was infected with at the time.
F-5C’s you’re talking of F-5C’s right?
@CodyBlues Cuz’ F-8E(FN)/F-8P never add those, because they weren’t wired for at any point in their carreer.
And Super Étendard should have them also
No we’re talking about the F-4C.
it never was historically accurate
And the F-5C couldn’t even mount AAMs when the US used it, nor did it have flares.
They made exceptions for a premium US jet that they would make for a TT French jet.