Su-30SM: In Thrust We Trust

Well that’s good. This needs to be the balancing vehicle, while hopefully the SMT or 27SM may see some benefits

Also I don’t recall if I specified it or even said it. But my Su-34 / 27 / 29SMT are spaded.

Thanks to top tiers gameplay and the poor gameplay from the Su-27SM (99% of the time running from Aim-120Bs) I haven’t spaded that one plane.

Considering how many buffs the rafale is getting, I don’t think the 30SM is gonna measure up. I was thinking it would be fine in this sandbox with the addtional DL channels and r77-1s, but I no longer think so simply because of how good the rafale is getting in general now.

Oh great, another vehicle to research and not buy then… the last 4 top tier Russian jets have been meh at best.

That’s why I ground out the F-15E, unfortunately I didn’t get it when it was #1 but it’s still not bad by any metric

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Lol. But it is literally the Russiaphobia. You guys are stacked here and spread your western anti-russia hate here.
All “russian bias” meme is western russiaphobia cuz WT is all about selling ingame things to western players. Western community are bigger and can to spend more money for games.

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It could only measure up in big maps where it would be able to get as high and fast as its opponents. Unfortunately, its engines only allow for mediocre acceleration, which will counteract the positive effects of finally having a good radar (on a Flanker) and decent ARH missiles.

Alas, the SM2 standard would put it more on par with the Strike Eagle (which got its 229 engines almost immediately after launch btw), but I doubt we’ll see it come anytime soon

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Probably not for awhile.
Kinda a weird trend tho.
F-111 got its upgraded models, and the F-15E and others have come out before an Su-24 upgraded model has been added…

They are making very strange decisions. And the Su-30SM felt like one of those “this will be good balance” choices, but then everyone got mad (as they always do) Russia might be even with the other nations in game, then they listened to player opinion instead of stats again, and poof, there goes the FM, and performance.

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And don’t even get me started on the Fulcrums… 9.18 would’ve been a far superior option to the 9.19

In general, Gaijin has simply gone way too fast with it’s additions. I was expecting to dwell in the cold war for much longer than now. I guess these planes were technically envisioned during such, but the technological capability of both tanks and planes has simply exceeded reason. There’s a lot of post-war and coldwar things to be added that simply have not; I was expecting yf17 before a strike eagle, the foxbat before the su33, and so on. At this point, a lot of vehicles that get added will not have “their moment” unless they are placed at unreasonable BRs.

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Those will prob come as events knowing gaijin.

But hey… we can’t get high tier premium event vehicles anymore.

Simulator doesn’t give rewards for the plane anymore.
And I have an example for this:

The top 3 were played in 2019 prior to the reward system changes.
The bottom 2 were played after the reward system changes.
You can see the drastic change in stat-card rewards, yet the F-14A got me 2 - 3 vehicles with the RP I got from those 12 matches.

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Yes, but in the example given, your stats make perfect sense. The one I gave for Scorpions simply does not.

22000/12 is 1833 per match.
2878/3 is 959 per match.

Sim RP stats should be dismissed.

Now you are just removing your own argument. So if ths tats do not support what you are saying…suddenly they do not matter?

I always said that RP stats don’t matter for sim.
F-14A got me 2 - 3 aircraft, maybe more. Yet the sim statcard says I only got 22,000 base RP… for 2 - 3+ 200,000 - 400,000 RP aircraft.

You are shocked that the math of what I said checks out? You made almost 10x as much as unique here. I could lowball the calculations and still get about that. It simply does not work for Unique’s situations.

This is su35.

I play Ground RB 99% of the time. Dealing with KH38s is annoying. But yet they refuse to give us AGM114Ls or AGM88s which have been used since the early 70s theres a ton of ATGMs they wont add for US planes for Ground RB purposes

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Because they are FnF and they can’t be spoofed by smoke.

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@Morvran sea vixen bad!

To explain this It’s GAIJIN LOGIC if the Su-35S can carry it so can other flankers it already been bug reported on the Su-27SM “not a bug” so have KH-38s on the Su-30SM -and the T220 doe
The Su-35S is the only aircraft that we have proof of