Tornado GR1, BR is too high for its capabilities most notably when compared against the superior German Tornado IDS WTD61 premium

Please look through this fully and make it make sense.

Tornado IDS WTD61 - airRB 11.3 groundRB 10.3
Fully upgraded

Top speed - 2308kph/1434mph

Turn time clean load - 29 seconds

Rate of climb 195m/640ft a second

2 9Ls, 2 27mm cannons Ammo 360,
700+ Countermeasures, Full set of 12 bombs

Tornado GR.1 - airRB 11.7 groundRB 11.3
Fully upgraded

Top speed - 2005kph/1245mph

Turn time clean load - 31 seconds

Rate of climb - 177m/580ft a second

2 9Ls, 2 27mm cannons Ammo 360,
700+ Countermeasures, Full set of 12 bombs or various old guided bombs / 1 paveway 3

How can this be?
Well one is premium and the other is British.

So some guided bombs means that despite the premium having much better flight performance with the same offensive weapons as the GR1 you get an additional +0.3 in airRB and +1.0 in groundRB at least the GR1 wins on that stat. 🥴

Don’t even get me started on the jets you have to fight in these slow motion buses 💀

And just in case you think this must be the same for similar situations, look at the Jaguar GR.1 weapons vs the GR.1A weapons. The main difference is the 1A has slightly better engines, gets 2 guided bombs and countermeasures. Yet there’s only an increase of 0.6groundRB but 1.0airRB. So slightly better engines, guided bombs and countermeasures impacts mainly air rating this time instead of ground. Meaning it’s not consistent at all because if guided bombs were some uber weapon the GR.1A would be higher in ground battles not air so why does it pull the Tornado GR1 up to 11.7 with worse stats than its German premium counterpart??

Screenshots show the area in red is the current reason devs believe the GR1 deserves +0.3 in airRB and +1.0 in groundRB. If they don’t work just look at both jets weapon screens and ask if you think that warrants the battle ratings I’ve listed.

Please consider fixing this because it’s pointless using the jet I like.

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Fun fact, that guided bomb, the PGM 2000, is rocket propelled.
You can sling out them from miles away and they will arrive before your German buddy could reach the base, not to mention this itself is incredibly fun.
Try it.

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Don’t believe the stat cards, flight performance is nearly identical in practice.

It doesn’t.

The PGMs are rocket propelled so you can fire them from nearly 20 km away. It’s pretty useful for killing bases (if no one steals it from you).

I will try this though I don’t think this ability warrants a higher BR

Go test fly both and tell me the same thing again, that German one would win a fight on paper and in practice yet is a lower BR because the GR1 has rocket booster bombs ??¿¿

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