We still have US teams completely stomping from the 8.7 BR range all the way up to 11.0.
How are planes like the F-5E and C allowed to sit so low?
How about the A-10s? How have none of these been addressed during the last BR adjustment pass? The aim-9L is impossible to evade and the A-10s themselves are a nightmare to fight.
honestly the f5 is disgustingly undertiered.
Especially while worse planes like f4e, f4juk sit considerably higher in BR.
Compared to other 10.3s, the F-5C is generally the jack of all trades. Against 9.3s though, it may be a bit too powerful. As for the F-5E, it could honestly be at 11.0 and do mostly fine. However, F-16As shouldn’t be facing F-4Es, nor F-5Es, nor pretty much any 11.0.
As for the A-10, flaring + maneuvering will allow you to evade the Aim-9Ls. The A-10 itself is very slow, so all you have to do it outrun it and wait for a good opportunity to strike it (when it doesn’t see you or has run out of energy). If you are in a sub-sonic, that does have any flares, the best advice I have for you is to just stay away from it, and keep track of how many missiles it flung. Then you can go in for the kill.
F-5C’s analogues are all 10.3: Mig-21MF & SMT, Mirage 3C/E, Crusader F-8E, AJ-37.
And all of F-5E’s analogues are all 10.7 with every 11.0 being superior to it.
J-35XS, F-4F, Kfir Canard.
I agree that the J-35XS (and the J-7E) are better air superiority fighters than the F-5E, but the F-5E can deal with helicopters and ground vehicles much better.
The problem I see is that the BRs for ARB shouldn’t be the BRs for GRB, which is what Gaijin is supposedly about to fix in some upcoming changes.