never said the ER and 73 werent the better missiles, i said that the missiles you get are still perfectly adequate, and that your flight perfomance more than makes up for the difference. the 16C accelerates faster than the SMT from what ive seen at least and considering youre usually close to some teammates you can always run to them. and its not just one situation where the 16C outperforms it. just play the thing right and to its strengths, like youre supposed to do anyways and dont just get into a fight of which youre going to be at a disadvantage, like a headon you cant get out of because of the ER, like being on full ab when hes way close to you. just avoid those situations. hell i havent even had any trouble killing SMT’s even in the 9-13, which is in the same boat, worse missiles, better flight performance
So if having better missiles all around doesn’t matter then why don’t we just give the US the AIM-9X and AMRAAM? they’re both avoidable if you play it right so what would be the issue? Just play the 9.13 it has great flight performance.
don’t know why you’re lobbying so hard for mig 29 dittos like when f14a first came
when did i say missiles dont matter?
and even if i did there very much is a limit to how far you can go with that. the 9X for example uses an IIR seeker instead of the 73’s IR, which you essentially just cant flare, smokeless motor, lock on after launch, and way more range.
compared to the difference between the 9L and 73, where the 73 has tvc and some questionable irccm being much more focussed on dogfights, and the 9L has more range, and energy retention, it being a bit of an all purpose missile (within reason).
The F-14A was a problem, doesn’t mean it justifies this.
The F-14A also doesn’t have a particularly close Russian equivalent, the MiG-23MLD is as close as it gets, but for the USA now there are things that can be done to level the playing field even just a little and those things aren’t being done, that is a problem.
please let this be real so i can stop having this stupid discussion
Anything new for the Barak II?
well guess ill go digging through some files again, brb
its a 1+gb dev server update? the hell?
aim 9m
Spoiler
Nice!
nice, means i can stop politely telling people they should get better at dealing with missiles
same
now i wonder how “Historical” the eccm is
its a shame the 73 seemingly hasnt changed, after doing some small tests… thats a little concerning
No capping the 9M is real? And on what planes is it?
what gets it?