Mirage IV, as beautiful as it is and as much as I want it, isn’t that good of a plane in war thunder.
It was expressly a nuclear bomber, with only 12 1000 lb bombs added as an afterthought. Maybe it would be good after a full ARB rework.
So basically it would be like the Tornado?
Except no guns and no missiles
So a Super-sonic Buc, jsut means it would be at a BR where it might actually get to bases
Yep, as long as nobody fires a missile at you because I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have CMs either.
Straight to 3.7 ;)
It won’t actually improve anything as it shares the same EO seeker as the GBU-15(V)1 or IIR seeker as the AGM-65s / GBU-15(V)2 both already already found in game. and unless they also revise how post release control works (which when they added the TV MARTEL they said they won’t see below report)
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Y5BrZ6gGHVXX
So It’s fundamentally no improvement over the existing systems in terms of engagement range. And the BR tax that the platform already will not be able to sustain (The F-111A already struggles where it is, and seeing AMRAAMs and their counterparts won’t help).
It would be far better off if given JDAMs, or assorted GPS/INS guided ordnance, in order to get around known seeker range limitations but I don’t think it was ever trialed with them. (since there is no apparent intent to reinstate Contrast seeker implementation hamstrings western Electro-Optical ordnance). or if they add the A2G radar modes.
It should have been added alongside the F-111A in place of the F-14B, to actually make it useful. It’s far to late at this point since the mix of poor airframe performance and A2G capabilities are going to mean it performs very poorly if at all contested (The A-10 at least has CM count in its favor) at 11.3 or so that it will likely sit at.
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EF-111A Spark Vark with AGM-88s would be a game changer for Ground RB. This should sit at the same BR as the current F111A, but is the change needed to counter the long range SPAA in the game.
- Add EF-111A
- Add AN/ALQ-99E Pod
- Give it TFR Autopilot
- AGM-88 HARM
- AGM-142 Popeye
- AGM-84 Harpoon
- AGM-130
Also give the current F111a Its AGM-88s. It also carried the Aim-54 so it needs that as well which it is missing.
If you are going to add the F111f then give it its Aim-9P and Aim-54s.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole you can check out the Aussie Carlo Kopp and his F111C/D design concept (war thunder standards do not require anything more than a design concept):
Don’t do it it will be like tornado late, a piece of useless junk, the radar is lacking to say the least.