What's a good rank 7/8 Israel alternative grinder to Kfir Canard?

I’m looking for a new Rank 7-8 plane to replace the Kfir Canard, but Israel doesn’t seem to have really good options.

The Kfir canard is a good bomber but that oppurtunity is shrinking due to spam of F-4EJ rocket planes that will always beat me to the bases.

Can anyone tell me if I am overlooking some hidden gem? From my overview of the aircraft there, I don’t want to play aircrafts with BR 13.0 and higher.
I have played Mirage III C and Mirage V of France, and love them.

Shahak - Mirage IIIC for Israel but lacks rocket pod and has only Aim-9D versus Magic 1 for French version
Nesher - Aim-9G “upgrade” but worse airframe.
F-4E Kurnass - Well it’s a Phantom, and I don’t like its airframe performance.
Kfir C.7 - 4x IR missiles at 12.0, yeah that surely will work against Su-33s and F-18s
Kurnass 2000 - F-4EJ Kai but only has IR missiles.
Netz - 6x IR missiles at 12.7.

Kfir Canard wins out because it’s premium. Only replacement to that is either paying about 2K GE to put a talisman on a tech tree aircraft or buying a higher rank premium.

Though talismans only translate to increased RP gain. You won’t be able to replace the loss of the increased SL gain.

I have plenty of GE to spend on, especially on sales later, and SL isn’t a issue.

Well, personally speaking if it was me I’d just stick with the Kfir Canard. It’s not the greatest 11.0BR fighter but it’s not the worst, either. Personally I can make it work most of the time provided I don’t get thrown into an uptier against people that know what they’re doing, but that issue affects all aircraft so it is what it is.

It’s got only 2 missiles and it cant hit and run like mig 21 with front aspect r 60ms.

I think the flares got buffed recently though

Still, having to play against mirage f1c and f 4s is crazy in this plane.

A decent grinder due to its speed and bombs but not very fun to play

Golfs are okay in the 11.0BR bracket. Having two is suboptimal so you have to be careful with them.

Anyways, it all rounds back to the BR compression issue. No aircraft is fun to play in an uptier.

both the kurnass and kurnass 2000 are decent fun, plus carrying two flames bombs basically doesnt change their flight performance, and they are good at staying alive for a long time with lots of missiles for their BR which makes them good at grinding imo because of the time played bonuses

Kurnass 2000 is certainly interesting, and the idea of a modernized but old plane appeals to me, like the EJ KAI. But isn’t a bus relying on IR missiles bad idea? It can’t target people frontally like F-4S can, and has to rely on surprise side/rear shots.

I’m not gonna claim the kurnass 2000 is the best vehicle at its BR, but its often underestimated, this along with the fact that you’ll probably be bombing a base before engaging the enemy (not judging I did it in the kurnass), means that you’ll often be able to get side aspect and rear aspect shots off

also python 3s perform very well at <1km headon as long as the enemy doesnt preflare, plus if you dont hit with a missile you still have m61 vulcan

Interesting…so the R60M strat where you head on someone to throw them the missile in the face

yeah but its works better for python 3s cause they have very good acceleration

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