In most of my time playing WT I’ve looked at premiums the same way “well at least thats not like shattering battle ratings and has a ton of downsides for the upsides” Well, not anymore I suppose, the SU-30 Premiums(all of them) as well as the BMPT have made it clear how little Gaijin cares about balance, since release they have dominated whatever BR bracket they’ve been placed into, take into account the SU-30MK2 AMV, it has great FOX-3’s, SARH, and IR missiles, as well as insanely good ATG munitions, and this is the continued case for all of them (to my knowledge, do correct me if im wrong), In ARB alone the SU-30 spam has ruined 12.3-14.3 with the amount of them per game, usually most of the team in my experience and NATO has no premium counterpart to compete. The premium F-14D could have been a competitor if they had gotten the AIM-120A’s, but alas if you want any kills you have to use the AIM-7M’s(in my playing of it), which makes it seem silly its only .3 br lower than the SU-30 premiums. Now don’t misconstrue my argument, I am NOT advocating for a new NATO premium that plays the same as the SU-30’s.
I think these aircraft need to be moved up to at least 13.7-14.0, as that is where all of its techtree competitors are, and where it will face some resistance from later generation NATO aircraft. Feel free to disagree and discuss