It might be the best “balance-wise” but this will be the biggest robbery of the century. MiG-31BM is pretty much famous because of R-37M, it would be like removing MICA from a Rafale and placing it at 13.0 with only Magic 2s
As for me, i see and i know it for its powerful radar and speed. Specially the r33. Yes the 37m is goated but where are you gonna enjoy lower br bvr sarhm r33 ?
None of us want to enjoy it while stock grinding it at top tier.
In smaller word, r33 deserve to be loved in the right br.
Plus there is no problem having a older BM or B model at a lower br with only r33. Kinda like the 29 9.12 and 9.13 situation
I’m not sure you gonna enjoy R-33 chief. It outperforms R-27ER only at MiG-31 operating altitude and speed, which is very problematic to achieve in ARB.
They will definitely add more than one mig 31 variant, we can have mig 31, mig 31bm, mig 31bsm, mig 31k and a few others which can be distributed among tech tree and event/battlepass variants and their brs will be adjusted according to their capabilities.
BM and BSM only differ in a refuelling probe. MiG-31K is completely useless in WT. Only plausible versions that can be playable and will actually bring something to the table are MiG-31B, MiG-31BM and, if gaijin is brave enough, MiG-31M
It is pretty realistic from what I gathered. Su-27 was initially planned to be capable of carrying 2 belly mounted R-33s, but tests showed that R-27ER was superior on all altitude and speed ranges available to Su-27, which, as well as the fact that R-33 will require a separate seeker head to be compatible with N001, put an end to this idea
R-33 is probably better at super high altitudes, as well as above Mach 2.5 speeds that are available to MiG-31.
I also stop and come back, and I stopped playing GRB. I played a little recently, but GRB is complete garbage because of Gaijin’s garbage maps. The map development team should be condemned to death. GRB is total trash, that’s why I only play Air RB.
It’s like I’ve said several times in other topics, this topic is so clean with so many polite people that they don’t even need to worry about what we say here, it’s like the Garden of Eden in the middle of hell.