Top Tier Russian Fighters are worse than nearly all of their competition

Why remove ER? Just fix the BR and FM

I mean, that also works

The Mirage 2000 in-game can energy fight tho, very good too, which is odd. Irl the Su-27 performs very similar to the F-15 in flight performance, so it’s missing a decent amount of performance ingame, someone posted a graph on it here iirc.

This just depends on the era because France for a while doesn’t have anything besides the Mica as their main Fox 3, I think it can be buffed? But like, until the Meteor, the Russians have plenty of weapons that are better.

Du you have it? Id enjoy reading it

Not really tho. Meteor is just the cherry ontop as its a massive overmatch

It’s several hundred messages back, there’s been multiple things posted. It should be there somewhere iirc

Ill try to find it when i got time

The main issue is just a lack of a better Fox 3 for a while, since the Mica is kinda mid in terms of range, atleast rn. Russia would probably get a better R-77 before the French get the Meteor.

Mica isnt correct right now, and the r77-1 isnt exactly amazing either, and there are other mica variants which are just great missiles

Atleast from what I know, there isn’t too many variants, but I could be wrong.

We’re a long, long, long way away from Meteor.

That’s like a truly endgame missile for when 5th Gens and the likes are here.

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very far. Meteor is the best a2a missile pound for pound.

ER is ahistorical in the 9.12/9.13 airframes (they added it for “balance” and overcompensated), and R-73+ER like in the 29G makes it 13.0, which is the same br as the Flanker which can carry the same payload + 4 ERs

Mica ir. And you could add the upgraded seeker which would make it nigh invoulnerable to counter measures.

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I wouldn’t mind a Mig-29 with R-73’s, R-27ER’s, a better flight model at 13.0, gets rid of the tradeoff of what radar missile you have. I’d do anything for a flight model buff, a br jump isn’t too bad

The IR will definitely be nasty, I wasn’t thinking of Fox 2’s.

Very nasty. Definetly shouldnt be added anytime soon.

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Fr, thing’s got like a 60km NEZ. Will be one the last ARH’s added to Warthunder.

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And its a compact and maneuverable. Its just an insane missile, lmao watch italy become the best a2a tree just because of the f35+meteor

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