AJ37 is a better Mirage III, worse engine when spaded than a stock JA37C so lets not start claiming stuff that isnt true.
Additionally the AJ37 has an off center gun and thats if you want any sort of CM’s. Additionally it only has 2 missiles. Again its really not that special at its BR. Its a base bomber thats terrible at multirole.
Im gonna assume you’ve never flown a draken if you haven’t noticed how strong Agile Eagle is on the phantoms.
Again before you claim stuff please bother doing testing.
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Gotta get the R13M1’s on there too
We need to decompress air as a whole. The XS is no more a bully than the J7D or F5’s.
Absolutely. I love the F-5s as much as anybody but I’d be the first to tell you they’re overperforming
They are just well built cleary, using cold fusion to power their engines is just future technology they had.
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Colder than the F-117 in fact /s
Actually I’m not joking, it’s like this in-game
I know lol
The question is. What will happen first
A) Gaijin will model them correctly (STR among other things is too high)
B) Decompress that BR range/move them to an appropriate BR
C) The heat death of the universe
Knowing Gaijin they would somehow be able to do it after
The only thing keeping me from voting to raise to 10.7 is the fact it has very little countermeasures and the game is still massively compressed at these BRs.
Gaijin could just give it the F5C treatment and give it the 144 CM’s the F 35 should have, god what a sad addition of my favorite Draken
“it can’t go to 10.7, not having RWR is too much of a disadvantage!”
Meanwhile:
All aspect missile moment
Sure, if the Draken’s FM was what it once was. It isn’t. Most platforms can hold their own against it in a downtier, even a Su 7. If we had decompression? Sure. However, in the current climate it already eats SARHs, and not even good SARHs, on account of the lack of situational awareness.
As it stands, it would be very questionable to raise it, unless they revert the questionable decisions regarding the fm (Won’t happen, Swedish stuff gets shafted fm wise) or we get decompression. Jaguar is unironically more pleasant to fight things with at the rating.
I think RWR isnt that relevant, On the grounds you have things like the Thai Alpha Jet at 10.7 with no RWR and the F-104 at 12.0 with the weakest RWR in the game .
Everything else… Maybe. Though there are plenty of examples of aircraft that should be lower, but arent due to some issue. I think 9.3s should not being seeing the J35XS.
Ideally yes, that BR range would be decompressed, but god knows when that will happen
This is a travesty against humanity, not a sane BR even were the RWR amongst the best.
Just gonna ignore the armament? Were it not for the all aspect capability coupled with a completely adequate fm, that thing would be lower than the Draken.
I don’t disagree. However, sending it up basically kills it. This is another example of how, in the face of a lack of decompression, we should have certain aircraft with locked ratings for the battles they can enter in air. At which point, Draken could reasonably sit at a locked 10.7.
The quality of the RWR at the rating isn’t relevant. However, the presence of one is. The complete lack of one is incredibly problematic at an increased rating for an aircraft that takes significant attention to get guns or AAMs on target. The nearest aircraft I would compare it to that I’ve familiarity with is the Mig 21. Even the very mediocre rwr on the mig 21 allows for situational awareness whilst getting the 23 on target, and the mig 21’s flight model feels significantly less like you’re fighting the platform to send it where you want.
This is distinct from the Draken where you’ve a fm that feels like you’re fighting it a lot of the time to get guns/missiles on target. The lack of rwr limits your ability to commit to the maneuvers required to secure kills, unless you’re inclined to toggle maneuver mode, at which point the draken turns into an airbrake and you’re still blind whilst managing this situation. Even then, you’re still hoping that you can focus on the target without being hit by a SARH, as you either have to look away from the target to check for threats at which point you could have already been handily outmaneuvered, or you eat the missile. Even Mig 21’s rwr facilitates a great sense of awareness. At the rating this situational awareness problem is less present regarding IR AAMs, as if you’re within employment range, you’re already maintaining awareness of position. On account of y’know, seeing the threatening platform closing.
cant wait for it to be forgotten about when ECM gets added
Random attacker? Check.
Crappy gun? Check.
Subsonic? Check.
High-tier premiums still dogfight you? Check.
It would be really good if you could climb to drop those 9P-4s from above, but without RWR it’s too risky. Still a good plane, if only because of the paid actors you get to face.
Completely adequate FM? It’s a little worse than a Sabre. And you don’t get much value out of the all-aspects due to what I mentioned above.
