Why hasn't the Phantom FGR.2 got the AIM-9L missile?

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and unlike the US version. Worse turn performance

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You mean the F4S at the same Br

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Think so. too many Phantoms

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9Ls can launch in a 10km front aspect against an afterburning target, and the spot range is 5km.
On top of vastly superior rear-aspect performance.

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So it just has better range that it

And its seeker isn’t that much better

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I mean clearly AIM-7F = Skyflash DF despite the fact that the AIM-7F burns for the in game equivalent of a couple of centuries.

And honestly the engines kinda get negated when you haul a massive draggy gunpod around (necessary because of how worthless AIM-9Gs are and how multipathing ruins Skyflash… despite Skyflash’s distinct selling point being it can hit aircraft at ultra low altitudes)

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Literally unflareable in the rear aspect against AB targets “isn’t much better”.
Okay buddy.

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They both are and isn’t 100%

Unless its a F5

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Giving the phantoms Aim-9L would be balanced at 11.3, IR missiles dont need much more than the 9G gives until they get IRCCM

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If you cant flare a 9L off then you deserve to be killed by it

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lolno AIM-9G’s no-escape range is HALF that of AIM-9L.
And R-60M’s no-escape range in the rear aspect is 500 meters…

@John_Sneeeeeeeew
So your solution is to make the Mig-23MLD 11.0… lol

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Mig-23’s are fine where they are, they are balanced against the Tornado F.3 and the FGR.2/FG.1 are worse than the F.3

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If anything. MLDs probably should go to 11.7. Especially in SB. I still for the life of me, cant figure out why the MLD isnt 11.7 in SB

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So FGR2 goes to 11.7 with EJ Kai if it gets 9Ls.

Sorry, but no one deserves OP jets.

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Ok then mig-23 ml to 11.7

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@Morvran
Mig-23s are incapable of using 9Ls to be put at 11.7.

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EJ kai has a better radar and SARHs

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What really needs to happen is decompression

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PDV isn’t noticeably inferior to PD.

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here here