The War Thunder Wiki said it was used to replace the ancient Mirage IIIEs and a few Mirage 5s used by France, which are the frontline ground attack aircraft, should it be a strike aircraft instead of a jet fighter? and it still doesn’t have the laser-guided bombs.
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How Gaijin determines fighter and strike fighter is a bit of a mess. You have things like the Hunter FGA9 which was the ground attack variant of the Hunter F6 classed as a fighter and then you have things like the Sea Harrier FRS1 classed as a strike fighter, even though its most notable role in history was as a CAP fighter and that ultimately was what it was designed to do.
I’d not be surprised if it was strictly speaking wrong, but without a total overhaul of how classes of aircraft are determined, there will always be messy edge cases.
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Yep, especially for the jets, they can clearly determine the FJ4B as strike aircraft, But not correctly identified for other similar jet airplanes, like Mirage F1CT, it seems like a balance or something, but it is pretty wired that at the end to the french attacker TT, it is a fighter.
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