@SorelRoOk after replaying this many ... many times... the issue seems not to be the SAM's but actually the J-11's or the F-15C's take your pick, the F-15's just don't engage the J-11's or not very well and certainly not early enough in one mission i saw them pickle their tanks at WP1, in my last mission they got 1 - 2 of the J-11's for a total of 3 slammers fired... my "fix" was to load up with 4 120C's and fire of my 4 HARMS as soon as I got PGM2 then got my wingmen to engage the SU-27's alongside me (their parents have all been notified) I got 5 kills on the J-11's one with a gun and my 4 slammers all found a home... and we had 5 of the buff's actually make an attack and exfil.
The issue seems to be a few things:
1) The SAM's trigger completely defensive behaviour in nearly all the flights regardless of if they are actually threatened or not , which costs them energy and initiative and time
2) meanwhile while they are all diving for the deck the J-11's slaughter the buff's and anyone silly enough to try and climb up to meet them from the deck, meanwhile the Buff's also get slaughtered
3) the Eagles just don't engage (but 3 of them survived, 2 with a full set of Slammers and Sidewinders), and that can be said of Uzi 1-2-4 as well who all died very bravely for their country 2 of Uzi 2 survived and they either fired weapons or jettisoned them
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