Some doubts that arose with the arrival of the aim 120C-5

[GALWAYLION-live]

That’s because people were demanding that if the AIM 120C is coming, that means they should buff the PL-12s and SD-10s

[Zulizia]

@Alpharius11348

IRL of course it isnt but gaijin decided to give it the same artificial nerfs as 120A for close range pull and refuses to give it its IRL improved HOBS capability

well first i said if.

@Alpharius11348

who tf is claiming its dominant

Have you also checked what post you’re on?

@Ion_Protogen

Knowing Gaijin, you will end up with the US dominating yet another BR in air RB, and dominating top tier again for the next 3 months without any other fixes or additions if the F-15s actually get the 120C-5s on the live server.

This is the most liked reply on the post. There are definitely other examples but I’m not digging through 200 posts for it. You have people claiming the AIM-120C-5 will dominate. I know nearly nothing about its functionality in War Thunder, so yeah. “If it’ll be as dominant as people make it out to be” doesn’t mean everyone, but there are definitely people claiming it will be dominant, maybe overpowered.

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[PyroAddict]

@Zulizia

I know nearly nothing about its functionality in War Thunder

All you need to know is that it will be kinematically better than the 120A while sacrificing turning performance, so it won’t be overpowered by any stretch of the imagination if you know what you’re doing against the AIM-120 series in the ARH meta.

[Zannafrancy12]

That sounds iffy. Like the aim120 is already the least agile of the mdeium range fox 3s.

[PyroAddict]

If he does a little research (and i think he will), he’ll find out the 120As turning performance is already weak, so having even less would lead to a pretty narrow conclusion

[Zannafrancy12]

@Zulizia

but there are definitely people claiming it will be dominant, maybe overpowered.

Those people havent actually looked at how it was before dev server closed