I’m looking to get the F-16 Netz Mod on sale this year. Does anyone know when Israel tree would get a sale this year?
Thank you.
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As far I’m aware there are no Israeli-focused sales event, as for Netz (Mod) it can get on sale in Summer Sales and Winter Sales. Gaijin can consider an Israeli-focused event in form of the anniversary for the Israeli Air Forces in 28th of May.
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Right, I think in 2024 there was sales for IDF anniversary on May 26, I’m hoping this year will be the same.
Thank you.
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I’m unsure, but I believe the summer sale is coming up in June or July. A quick tip: if there’s no sale happening, I always use a content creator’s link before buying anything, since it gives a small discount.
there should be one today, it is israel independence day
Summer sale. I bough the Ra’am Segol last summer sale…
Jew God have mercy on you.
Probably one of the worst buys you can do
ARB player speaking and it shows.
both the techtree and premium netz are 12.3 in sim, whereas every other F-16 is atleast 12.7 even if they’re just straight up worse, example: american F-16A. higher BR, worse missiles (though still good, don’t take this out of context), less countermeasures (if comparing to netz mod)
yeah was talking about ARB, been months since I touched air sim
the thing with the netz in sim is that if you’re playing when 12.3 is the top of the bracket and USA is on your team (which it almost always will be when playing israel), there’s literally nothing that can counter the netz, especially considering that britain is ALSO ON YOUR TEAM. that’s two nations with hornets on your team, which are the only reasonable counter to the netz.
MiG-23, maybe, if he lobs an R-24 through your cockpit, but that can be avoided by notching or multipathing. you dodge that, then it’s a free kill with a python or a few vulcan rounds
Hey, I play Air RB and want to grind out the F-15i Ra’am to play in Ground RB and Custom Battles. I’m a big CB player with my friends.
I wouldn’t recommend it, the 12.3 F-16A variants are kinda bad. Awesome FM and good gun but without good missiles.
And you have the TT F-16A netz avaliable, only difference is that you have less countermeasures.
The premium netz isn’t worth the money. The israeli TT is a very quick grind and you have some solid options for talismans, like the ayit.
You have at least 1 good plane per rank in israel. Spitfire CW > Meteor NF13 > Ayit > Kurnass > F-16D
You can rush those and ignore the rest while grinding. The ayit is very strong so its one of the better options for a talisman.
The hardest part is grinding the 1st spitfire with the sakeen, for your sanity, do it in arcade.
I don’t know man it seems to be pretty solid vehicle.
I bought just for the love despite having entire tree during sales, triple amount of countermeasures 6 Python-3, 2 napalm bomb plus amazing flight performance is really good at air rb.
As long as you dont get dragged to 13.0-13.3 lobbies its an amazing plane in my book.
I would recommend the Kfir canard over the Netz.
Netz is a good plane but it sits at a bad BR.
With the canard you will be fast enough to always bomb a base (don’t know if this is still true now that everybody gets an airspawn) and you can have a few kills afterwards.
Its also pretty good for sim.
Without SARHs, it’s mediocre at its own BR. Python 3, like Aim-9L, is easy to flare. So you end up with just a good FM and good gun.
The successful matches you get with it rely almost entirely on the enemy being clueless about their surroundings.
So far, every person who says it’s bad seem to think it’s only used for air-to-air. It can carry 4 fire bombs. That’s 2 bases + 4 missiles, despite them being non-IRCCM they can still be used.
Or you can carry 2x fire bombs for 1 base and 6x ATGM for getting a few ground targets, either way you still get 4x AIMs and a gun. I agree the F-16 Block 10 is too high of a BR but if you hit ground first I don’t think it would be too bad.
Also, I have 0 planes for Israel so I’m looking for a premium. I have already spaded all of my Swedish Gripens (A, C, E) and don’t feel like raw-dog researching Israel tree from scratch to get to the F-15i Ra’am. The Kfir Canard doesn’t get fire bombs and the normal bombs are too heavy, so I’m counting that out.
Would be nice if F-16 block 10 got SARH at least but Gaijin wants to see us suffer. Out of all the Block versions they had to choose the worst one.
block 5 and block 10 F-16s aren’t too high of a BR, the problem is that gaijin took the 11.3 to 14.7 battle rating range and put it under a hydraulic press.
the F-16 block 5 and 10 basically maul everything at or under 12.3 in the right circumstance, but literally a singular BR step above that is the F-15A and F-15J, which are atleast 4x as effective as you in air combat. twice the gun ammo, 2 more missiles, 4 of which iRCCM missiles, 4 of which AIM-7Ms.
Even without SARH its pretty amazing in its own Br.
Python-3’a are much faster and pulls harder hence the window of evading/flaring them much smaller compare to Aim-9L.
Not to mention you have best fm, best gun and pretty good loadout for air rb, you can just take 2 napalm bombs, 6 Python-3 and drop tank in order to both bomb bases and go after any plane.
Having 180CM’s also helps a lot to notch incoming radar guided/ir missiles.
Python 3 have better kinematics than 9L but not by a large margin. And they are equally worthless in the flare resistance department, and as such, the loadout is factually bad for 12.3
F-16A/Netz are good jets with bad missiles and you will often watch F-4S that are lower in BR achieving more consistent kills than the F16 because they have SARHs, even if they are lacking in the FM department
In a downtier mig23 will beat you to the bases even if you carry just 2 napalms.
In a uptier is a death sentence