Ohk :(
Answer would be buffing amraam turn performance.
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That would also buff Eurofighter by a lot and then gaijin will either nerf Eurofighter or nerf AMRAAMS again
F15ex also exists, which is coming soon
And it will do what? Against rafale F4 and eurofighter it won’t be any good. It would also be missing half of its features and gaijin will add those features maybe 2 or 3 years later. F-15 FM are also not good, you turn once to notch and you lose all your speed. My only hope is F-16V and even that would be missing 360 rwr in Y plane. Atleast it would have good FM
The only thing I can think of, that would meaningfully help is HOBS missiles. Whilst these wouldnt be added in a vacuum, and aircraft like the Typhoon would get equal if not better HOBS missiles, it does open some doors for how the aircraft can operate. Airframes like the F-18 do well in close range dogfights but are usually forced to rely on guns rather missiles because they lack a decent dogfighting option, Aim-9X would add that option.
After that there simply isnt a Gen 4/4.5 airframe equal to the Euro-deltas, they were built around an entirely different philospohy with entirely different design requirements, they will naturally have radically different strengths and weaknesses compared to US “equivalents”
Eurofighter would only receive meteor that would be different from US fighter (only in terms of ARH and not ir) and do you honestly think gaijin won’t nerf it and make it as bad as AMRAAM?
And gaijin only focuses in bringing players closer and do WVR instead BVR where F-15 should be good. Dogfight are still common especially in ground rb and Eurofighter and rafale excel in Dogfight, and having a good FM is very important to somewhat counter them. Thats why my only hope is F-16V until they do something about air RB
If we are talking ARH, then the Meteor at a bare minimum would have 2 things
- C&P of a MICA EM Seeker which would give it an advantage over the Aim-120D if it maintained the same seeker as the A/B/C5
and
- Massive LSZ of 100km
If it had those, then it would be fine, I could make use of them just fine. I have no idea about kinematic performance at short range, but if it at least equalled C5s, I can make them work. Especailly if im relying on ASRAAMs sub 30km anyway.
As for IIR. Then ASRAAM and IRIS-T respectively have dramatically different strengths and weaknesses over Aim-9X
F15ex fm will be better than c ones afaik, it gets fbw and (i think) is lighter
It will have its funny mach 2.5+ speed and 16 amraams, with the amraam maneuverability buff it will be very competitive
F15 (non a) fm is also underperforming sfaik
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Currently in game both IRIS-T and 9X have 50g pull so i believe gaijin will give ASRAAM similar figure. However both IRS-T and ASRAAM would be faster than 9X and probably have more range
It could theoretical carry 16 however operational is 12 AFAIK. Maybe with AMRAAM buff it would be competitive but it would still be behind Eurofighter and rafale. Also it would still have fixed radar
IRIS-T has an accepted report to do 60G, so that might yet change, but the thing that hasnt been seen yet with IRIS-T and probably needs to be worked on is its low speed launch. The turning radius isnt just how many Gs something can pull, but how fast it is traveling. ASRAAM for example struggles at point blank range because its built to do one thing, go fast. IRIS-T though is designed to be slow at launch and can turn very very tightly.
So, in a shot range dogfight, IRIS-T would beat Aim-9X to the target in a HOBS fight and will likely have a smaller min range. In terms of raw range, they probably arent that far off
and in a headon or short to medium range fight, ASRAAM would kill the US aircraft before it can even fire an Aim-9X in return. ASRAAM definetly has the greater range
Will they every fix it though?
No idea, they should, but we’ll have to wait and see, they might jsut be treating IRIS-T SLS and IRIS-T as two different missiles for some stupid reason or maybe attributing the different G to ground launch vs air launch?
Why is operational 12? Given we have mrml pylons already it makes sense for 16 total
Look at this.
EW could also maybe save US top tier
It wouldnt be added in a Vacuum, and at the moment, purely based upon aircraft currently in-game. Italian and British Typhoons with ECRS Mk2 and the Gripen E would likely have some of the strongest EW in-game. Rafale is suppose to be half decent too
US still has EA-18G which i am hoping they would add. If they do add it, it would have the strongest EW in game though it would only be able to carry four missile IIRC. Though I Don’t think we would see EW any time soon as they are highly classified and getting documents would be hard
atp only the AIM-120 buff can fix the US, but then it would also be overshadow by other nation that also use AIM-120
my best guess for the current 4.5 gen WT is the EX with aesa, even more thrust, 16 missiles, more cms and bol
or
gaijin could do an 15E upgrade, AESA, 12-16 missiles, BOL
and a major F-15 thrust buff
there was a thread about total F-15 thrust massively underperforming(22.5% less thrust)
F18 and F14 really is a lost cause, F-18 is really slow compare to other jet, F-14A is just dead and B is barely holding