As far as I can tell, it is outclassed by several 5.7 aircraft and doesn’t have many redeeming qualities. It also appears to just be a more powerful F4U-4 with 20mms, but that shouldn’t be 1.7 Br increase?
Ground strike capability shouldn’t matter very much in ARB either, so that shouldn’t affect it’s BR by more than 0.3 or 0.7. Plus, we have separate BRs for air and ground now too.
The thing you (and gaijin) are missing is that it has a couple hundred SNEBs. They probably forgot about it like they did with the scimitar, so it retains legacy BRs in both air and ground. And it’s also not in the american tree so…
Only tier 6+ planes got seperated brs, but they said they wanted to do them aswell for lower br planes. I dont know how good the F4U-7 actually is but maybe the br will change in arb when they seperate lower tier planes aswell
I think it should be 5.7 too, because this is more likely a sidegrage (F4U-7 weighs more), A2G weaponary shouldn’t be taken into account to make certain plane higher in BR. To be honest, the best Corsair to play is basic F4U-4, Browning are more reliable than M3 cannons.
The only area where M2 .50cals outclass 20mm M3s is max firing range. 20mms have the advantage in all other areas, especially when it comes to CAS, which is the main use of the F4U-7 and F4U-4B
F4U-4B is significantly lighter and retains engine power at altitude better, due to the supercharger. F4U-7 is a USMC AU-1 with a R-2800-43W engine, giving it only 2000 hp vs the AU-1’s R-2800-83 with 2300 hp.
WT wiki says the F4U-4 has a R-2800-42W engine, but I can’t find any info on that. We know the F4U-4 did use the R-2800-18 though, which does have a horsepower advantage at pretty much all altitudes.
He means US players are not performing well with their own vehicles, whereas Non-US players do well in Non-US tree vehicles, resulting in this unbalanced BR distribution.