Good point, forgot that. But only partly true, it is not mid 2000s. The C was from '84, but the F16C block 50 rolled out of the factory this week 33 years ago on the 31st of October 1991 (F-16.net - The ultimate F-16, F-35 and F-22 reference). That is still 14 years before the MiG-29 SMP.
On the F15C, I know less about it. But the F15 is older then the F16. The first aircraft that got the MSIP II upgrade (what Gaijin calls the F15C) was the 84-001 in 1985. They sure did update the helmet, I’m not sure Gaijin gave us the proper F15C radar. Not sure what radar it got in game, but most likely the AN/APG-63(V)1 which is from the '90s. But as said, don’t really know about them in game.
The JHMCS program only started in the 2000s and first integrated on F/A-18s in 2003. As it stands the F-16C in game is a 2000s upgrade, only Israeli F-15/16s had HMDs implemented earlier sometime in the '90s.
My dear… don’t be a dumbass, look the tag of the post…
“Air” “air rb”
The entire topic discussed here is around the flight model and radar performance… what do spaa and tank have to do with the subject of the publication?
Right the topic where we address how top tier russian fighters have been handicapped more than necessary and require buffs to be both more historically accurate as well as more competitive for their BR. That topic.
Missile count doesn’t matter when you have the worst Fox 3’s and bad radars. The R-73 and R-27ET are also not the best IR missiles, no idea where you heard that.
The R-27ET isn’t bad or anything, the range is really good but the flare resistance just isn’t there. It has about half the flare resistance of the Magic 2 or R-73. R-73 and the Magic 2 have their seekers shrink to 0.75 while r27et shrinks to 1.3 or 1.4.
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In real life, F-5 had about 12 dps STR, like MiG-21’s, it overperforms by 25% (lol). Put into perspective it is barely worse than a WT MiG-29
Older data but proves the point. You can keep saying skill issue, skill issue, but if your plane has so much more specific excess power (compared to real life!) it’s like a MiG-9 against a MiG-15, you’re gaslighting people.
Oh, and R-60 was stealth nerfed to 22G, so most Soviet aircraft that relied on the missile (ie MiG-21SMT/bis) have had their last advantage removed.
