The French Alpha is basically the worst one in the Alpha family, it doesn’t have BK27 with powerful APHE, and also no flares. Basically, it is like the SAAB 105 but takes fewer bombs and has poor acceleration.Even Imp. Chaparral can easily shoot it down.
Also for the Étendard. It can only take 4 bombs, or abandon guns to take 2 AS30; no flares, no RWR and worse Loadouts- how could it be 9.0, which is the same as Q5A or Scimitar F Mk.1?
rocket/bomb ccip for alpha jet
It also get the funny 30mm HEDP with the ccip
SAAB 105 also has it, even bigger
so, what about the saab 105?
Ask for the SAAB to move up then if you think so
The Etendard is exceptional at 9.0 with the AS30’s
The Q5A doesn’t get long range AGMs. The Scimitar does, but its been undertiered for a long time now.
You mean the two shitty manually guided missiles that are mostly used like dumb fire rockets that can possible adjust its trajectory. You mean those.
No, the days of mclos missile domination died years ago when sams were added to ground rb, so they’re not a good argument. Also the saab105 and sk60 both have twin agm with nearly the same amount of tnt, and aren’t balanced around them, because they’re not good unless you’re completely uncontested.
At which point you’re a slightly faster but worse alpha jet for cas.
And the alpha jet e should be dropped in br to 8.7, because not only does it have less defensive equipment but also lacks the dangerous gun, but also lacks the twin weapon mounts so you’re missing two rocket pods and bombs compared to the A.
Lmao, sure if you use them completely wrong. But use them as the guided missiles they are, exceptional, and easy to outrange all the 9.0 AA
It never left
Sure you COULD out range 9.0 spaa, but slight problem with that.
France doesn’t have a 9.0 lineup to run with this (also I don’t think there is a single 9.0 spaa to begin with) so it isn’t fighting 9.0 spaa but 9.3 spaa. Who have sams that will swat you out of the sky.
Hence why no one uses them unless you’re running the lower br ones like the sk60 and g91, and even then require an insane amount of skill, for little.payout because you’re generally sacrificing other weapons that could be used to kill tanks, solely to deal with a limited number of spaa hence why very few.players actually use them, you might say otherwise, but the reality is that they don’t do enough to offset just taking a different option that could be used to kill more ground targets.
And I only use it in my 9.3 France lineup.
The 9.3 AA which is just as easy to outrange and counter. The SAMs are just badly tracking Igla’s, badly tracking and no proxy fuse HN-6’s or better tracking but no search radar MIM-72’s. Easy to fight.
Hell can even use the outer pylon SNEBs as flares
Yeah, no, they’re still some of the easiest attacker weapons to use in the game. Very little skill needed, just 15 minutes in test drive to get the feel of missile, different MCLOS missiles have slightly different nuances with how much button authority to use.
The Etendard is the worst one with such AGMs, and it has to abandon its guns.
At this BR these AA don’t need radar can easily find out. Just use air alarm and then ambush these CAS, I have use MIM-72 killed too many Yak-130s and higher-tier CAS with these; pretty easy, just take cover and keep T4-6; it is almost like a Gaijin cheat
Q5A has RWR and flares, which means it can at least survive from Chaparral’s AAM strike
I would rather ask Alpha to move 8.7 or 35 mm Oerlikon move to 9.0
That’s what I’m talking about