I was more amused by the F-16AJ at 13.0 c AIM-9L and AIM-7F. At least the Belgian F-16 has 9M…
The same pain with me when i am flying F16A ADF … it is still a pain
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bring up the f15 and gripen and give the mlu its true loadout. dont complain about the belgian one which is literally older than the mlu and yet gets everything the mlu should
F-15A 13.0 :
-4x AIM-9M + 4x AIM-7M
-17.020kgf of thrust
-T/W 20min fuel : 1.10
Su-27 13.3 :
-4x R-73 + 6x R-27ER
-HMS
-23.312kgf of thrust
-T/W 20min fuel : 1.13
Mig-29SMT 13.3 :
-6x R-77 (ARH/50g)
-HMS
-13.632kgf
-T/W 20min : 0.97
F-16A (belgian) 13.3 :
-6x AIM-9M
-8.985kgf of thrust
-T/W 20min fuel : 0.90
And so on…
Before the update, the belgian F-16A was 1 BR below the F-16AM, now, it is 0.3 lower.
Playing it became an infiltration operation right now.
How many people here played the F-16A and are arguing AIM-9M only are better than mixed SARH/9L?
In fact, mounting 6 AIM9M is not as good as imagined, even in the face of the battle situation mainly composed of F4S and MIG23ML is very weak, you need to hover and wait in medium and high altitudes, dodge all the AIM54 and AIM7 that are coming at you, and you can only enter the combat zone to launch AIM9M when you are sure that the enemy’s high-altitude target leaves the high altitude or is not paying attention to you. When the Belgium F16A appears in a battle full of FOX3, there is no need to play, and the endless FOX3 will devour you
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Well, 9Ls are from 1978 and 9Ms from 1983, only 5 years apart. So there are few aircraft that used the 9L but not the 9M. The only fighters really are the F-4S, F-4N, F-4E, F-20, and F-14A. Other nations (Germany, UK, Italy, Japan, etc) did use 9Ls more though, typically because 9Ms were not as available. The 9L was for example the only IR missile regularly carried by the F-4F post-Peace Rhine.
But “skipping a generation” isn’t new- the R-13M isn’t even in the game, despite being the main Warsaw Pact IR missile from the early 70s to mid 80s. Instead, aircraft are given either only R-3S or R-60s. Similarly, the AIM-4 family is excluded from the game in favour of AIM-9s and AIM-7s.
Alternatively, it’s similar to the R-60 of 1974 vs the R-60M of 1982. The only Soviet fighter with the R-60 but not the M is the SMT. But that doesn’t detract from the tree.
So, now that other F-16A users have destroyed the belgian F-16A (before complaining about it, it was planned at 13.0) despict the fact 9M can’t replace SARH, will it sit at this BR?
The whole game need more décompression, they just compress more top tier at this point.
As I said before, some 13.0 aircraft are way more capable than this poor belgian F-16A. I don’t see a reason to play it instead of F-16AM who is only 0.3 BR higher. Ridiculous.