Will the aim120D really "save" US top tier?

Really? how though, i don’t know of any ways to add countermeasures to that plane because i haven’t found anything about it carrying extra pods n stuff. Are they gonna go fictional and add something that doesn’t exist irl yet?

What? 😭

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I have no idea unfortunately

You can though, you can just disable CM’s slaving to MAW in the game settings.

I have tried both the multi function menu and my keybind and it’s just stuck on the J-15T for me.

Dev server shenanigans, it’ll be fine in live server.

Hopium atp, wouldn’t be surprised if gaijin messes it up

Would be so sad, J-15T is a plane i really wanna play. It’s really cool.

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To reiterate my points:
No, it nor any missile will save top tier for any tech tree, and in this case American.

AIM-120Cs & Ds should get their correct agility.

Dual engine’d fighters are too low in BR at top BRs.

And why is that?

Because I don’t understand the argument here

Please explain your point using relevant evidence as well, not like what you did with Fox-1 datalink

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P sure hes talking about stuff like the premium/tech tree 13.3 Sukhoi’s, and the F-15A/J/Baz.

Hes right about that.

Those are underbr’d other things rather than being double-engined

You give a single engine fighter the same avionics and kit as them at 13.3 and they’re also going to dominate

what is ECM?

So when we got AMRAAM carriers, F-15C MSIP joined the game alongside Su-27SM, Typhoon, and Rafale.
This is when F-16C was previously a top performer.

So this compression occurred without any filler, because how are you supposed to justify 1.3 BR separation between F-16C and Typhoon at that time?
F-16I, F-16CB52 now, F-2A, and Gripen E weren’t in the game yet.
Su-30MKK, missile powercreep, F-18E, etc also weren’t in the game yet.

So… this compression stayed, and it stayed for long enough that stats show F-15A performing worse than Mig-29G… which is wild, cause F-15A is objectively better.
Su-27 and Mig-29G share the same BR.
F-16CB52 and F-18E share the same BR when they shouldn’t.

And it’s not as if we can have the single-engine’d jets down because then 11.3 will suffer.

That’s why F-16CB52 is in a bad spot.
It’s also why when F-14D gets added, it HAS to be added at 13.3 because F-14B is 13.0, despite F-14D having a potential identical loadout to F-15A.

F-16CB52 is correctly coming in a decompressed state related to other single engine fighters, but 13.0 hasn’t been decompressed yet.

Its at the same br as the gripen E for example
Which is objectively better

The blk 52 should be 14.0, where it may actually perform well
Unless Gaijin gives it more amraams, I do not see it sitting at 14.3

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Gripen E being better or not is a discussion, but it’s not 14.7 for the same reason: Typhoons, Flankers, and Rafales sit there.
Now, we can argue if Gripen E is as good as Rafale, but the 13.0 compression is causing us to be at 14.7 when we can easily reach 15.3 now, and potentially 15.7.
And I could probably do long math to find a way to justify 16.0, but 15.3 is the minimum we can reach instantly without much research into the matter.

Your timeline is off.

The F-15C MSIP didn’t release alongside the EFT and Rafale, there was a 6 month period between their releases.

The F-16C wasn’t the top performer until these planes released either, the Gripen C was the dominant plane for the 6 months before the F-15C MSIP release.

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The timeline is that 6 month span, because that 6 month span was in 2024.
And we’ve had now 6 new updates to add filler, and only 1 or 2 instances of decompression occurred.

Of course it’s range and the overall missile should be buffed, but this is Gaijin. This document, actually a web page from a site i got using the Wayback Machine states that the Aim120D has 50% more range than the C7, with info used from Raytheon and the US DoD

can’t wait for the day of realisation

also also, I think comparing the F-22 FM to a Eurofighter isn’t a good choice, it should have all the drawbacks of TVC which the EFT doesn’t have