Talk:Summer 2019 Event/@comment-24930367-20190905224250/@comment-26464279-20190905233908

The D-9 achieves higher FP values, especially in sortie mode, but also barely in air defence mode.

For shootdown it's a bit different. Assuming the formula on wikia is accurate and both planes can keep the same air state the bracket part of the shootdown formula would be for the Me163 [9+ (0-14/0-16/0-18)] for AP/AS/AS+ and for the D-9 [9/11/13 + (0-8/0-10/0-12)] for AP/AS/AS+ because for the FW the Interceptor stat playes into that formula.

So in case of the D-9 starting with AS the min shootdown would be higher while the Me163 always the higher max shootdown, except when the difference in FP results in a LBAS air state drop from AS+ to AS. In that case both have the same max shootdown. Though that's unlikely to happen because the FP value of the D-9 for base def is only 1 higher than the Me163 with 21 vs 20 in base def mode.

The D-9 also has only 3 range, so you'll barely be able to use her in sortie mode (only for something like this event's E-2 boss 1), even if she's very high in the list with a 16.5 AA value (12 AA + 1.5x 3 Interception).

There seems to be barely any difference between the 2 in the actual calculations thanks to the high AA and Interception stat of the D-9 compared to the low AA and high Anti-Bomber stat of the Me163.

For me the main question would be if you want to afford the extra salt for the extra 11AA CV Fighter on med, which might be a good idea for people who missed out on all the top CV fighters from last event, but if you already got them it might not be worth it unless you did E-2 in med+ and want to have one of both the Me163 and the 9-D