I have mixed feelings about it, particularly on the sim side of things.
A lot of jets were lowered to 13.0 recently, which has made the 12.0-13.0 BR range in sim feel absolutely infested with 4th gen jets at this point. You see the occaisional harrier or F-4F KWS LV, but everyone is flying around in MiG-29/F-14/F-15/F-16/Gripen/M2K/M4K now. I the past, when the F-15 and M2K were the “oppressive” planes in the BR range, I wouldve said the Su-27 had no place there and would have rathered seen the M2K/F-15 raised to 13.3, but now that 13.0 has seemingly become the defacto “4th gen without ARH” BR, I think the Su-27/J-11 likely deserves to be dropped down.
On the flipside tho, the R-27ER really is a tremendously powerful missile, and is only matched/exceeded by ARH’s, so it might be too much for the BR range when paired with a good FM and HMD.
On a bit of a selfish note, I do wanna see them dropped to 13.0, or for there to be a 12.3-13.3 BR brqcket in sim sometimes so i have an excuse to run my J-11, cuz i got a nice camo for it :3
Doesn’t matter, soviets thought so, so they did it. Also that is just to prove a point, ECMs are more efficient than physical CMs. So doesn’t really matter if it carries less actual CMs, less or no chaff carried, mostly flares I think.
I got this clip tonight playing the su27 casually. 7 Kills in about 110 seconds (shows off how controlling and powerful the flanker is at its own br and in a downtier)
Yeah, and no practical limitations for it, aside from roles being put onto this specific plane type, Russian Air Force didn’t made the best choice with Su-30SM and Su-34
Su-33 have 4x B-8M what is together 80 dipoles (chaffs). However, there is a problem that these rocket launchers are located on the pylons for the R-27ET, so if they were added, you can equip them at the cost of losing two missiles.
