I have a slight problem seeing F8E and F8U staying at 10.0 BR despite their clearly superior weaponry when it comes to planes of close or lower BRs. The effect of the F8 on lower tier (9.0-9.7) is quite strong, as the F8U AIM9D one of the most manoeuvrable missiles at this BR range. F8E does have a limit on its weaponry to 4 missiles as well and 2 of them are AIM9Bs, but considering the 2 R530s/R550s(Magic1s) the advantage is still pretty clear against all other 9.7/10.0 and even 10.3 vehicles. Such is the case that F8s are quite literally the dominant force on eliminating enemies at such BR range.
As seen from below there are 6 F8s and they resulted in 15 kills of the 32 total, nearly half and this is very large K/D with 6 players. I would hope they could range it more sensibly to a 10.3 BR. I understand that a decompression could be a more permanent solution but such a dominant plane being faced by F86s/A4s is quite intolerable to me.
The F-8E(FN) has all its weapon setups pre-made in the selection menu and can’t customize them.
And frankly of all the planes in the game it is probably the one that least needs to go up to Br, without RWR and countermeasures you can’t do anything