Now keep in mind i dont take out the aj37 for cas and I enjoy it on air rb. In air rb its one of the most pleasant planes I have ever used. But it seems weird for it to be 10.3 in ground rb. Here is why:
At 10.3 it gets 2 mavericks A’s with either heat warheads or sap-he warheads. And that’s basically it if you actually want to survive since flare pods take up the rest of the pylons. You can also bring a gun but that will halve your flare count.
Ayit at 10.0 gets up to 3 mavericks+2 walleyes. And doesn’t have to sacrifice the gun or the flares for any of those.
Now I understand that the airframe of the viggen is cracked and its just miles better than most strike aircraft but it just doesn’t have a lot of strikepower
You launch the AGM-65s from directly above the battle.
Viggen can get to that altitude faster than Ayit.
theres no supersonic airframe with more than two FnF missiles below 10.3.
you didnt say anything wrong. im just saying that its precisely because of the vigens airframe why it sits at 10.3 with only 2x mavs. same as german F-4F.
planes that carry 6x mavs around the same BR are either subsonic as case with A10 or transonic with case of A-7D.
well the f4f canc carry both mavericks, bombs and guns and flares at the same time whereas in the viggen you gotta first decide if you want to carry flares or bombs or rockets. If you decide on flares then u gotta decide if you wanna carry guns with the flares
mav hardpoints does not seem to interfere with flares hardpoints.
well the single pod shows it can carry 24x LCMs and 320x chaff, whereas F-4F is limited to only 30x LCMs + 60x CMs. Phantom also does not get access to SAP-HE mavericks.
ultimately the point still is vigen is supersonic platform with access to Mavs, which should really be your primary weapon choice; if the airspace is being contested, you will not have opportunity to engage with either guns or iron bombs anyway.
I dont believe Swedish CAS is overtiered, but I do find it to be severely lacking
The Gripen, which was the head of the Swedish tree for a while, could only carry around 4 (iirc) Mavericks in a BR range with Kh-38MTs and Hammers. I’m not going to get into those missiles, but Sweden is only getting semi competitive top tier CAS in this update with: drumroll please The MLU2 with… JDAMs!
I will say, the 10.0-11.0 range has some decent CAS in thr Event/SV area, as we are getting the F-35 this update and the Tiger-PAWS is at 10.7 with an IR FnF ASM and 4 Bullpups, but it is still lacking most places else
I can’t speak on TT CAS past the A29B as that is currently where I’m at though
I guess Sweden not having CAS is just the price we pay for having good top tier vehicles
well you have the most broken 8.3 cas but since the closest lineup to it is 8.7 its gonna be used there but its still great plane. A32A I tried to grind since 8.7 ground is now 9.0 for sweden and on paper 9.0 a32a seems better than the saab105 but the grind made me stop it. And that’s about it. From 9.0 to 10.3 you don’t get competitive cas (at least rn). 10.3 is 2 mavericks. 10.7 is 3 mavericks. And then there is nothing else till top tier