Sometimes, I get tired of air to air missles, and I want to do some straight cannon work. Have you ever seen anywhere where a early model Sabre faced a plane that had air to air? I have not.
Sure enough those Aim9Bs are easy to avoid, but now and again, Im on a plane and here comes a plane with Aim9Es, not bad, and countermeasures, and LOOK, Im in a Sabre…
Whats going on with that? Is it a technical issue that is so hard to solve, to spread these BRs out?
Why not extend these BRs out to say 16, you keep packing these planes into 13 BRs or battle slots,whats the technical issue here?
No matter what, Gaijin will never put a hard wall between pure gun fighters and and fighters with A2A missiles.
You want to stay out of A2A missile BR completely? Then your best bet right now is to never play any aircraft that’s over 7.0BR - Because some aircraft get missiles as low as 8.3 - Minus the one 8.0 premium that gets 2 9Bs but that thing showing up is frankly rare. But that’s basically your only option right now, not go over 7.0BR
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7.0 or lower. While 7.0 can be quite annoying due to the Super props, there aren’t any vehicles with AAMs you commonly face.
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7.0 unless you see the german seahawk at 8.0, which has 2 AIM-9b’s but is quite rare. The lowest tier you can see player AAM’s though is technically 6.0 as the SK60B has MCLOS PF rockets although they are basically just fat AA.20 nords
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Technically sabres facing early air to air missiles is correct.
soviet union managed to obtain and reverse engineer AIM-9B that got fired from ROCAF Sabre and got stuck without detonating in PLAAF MiG-17 during the second taiwain strait crisis 1958.
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the lowest br they show up at is on 8.0 planes. so i suggest playing 6.7 if you have skill issue against
AIM-9Bs
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Yes, to be quite honest mate my next plane on the plate is the British Javelin. It has a terrible turn time, but if you can work the throttle, and use the airbrakes,…prob not bad.
4 30mm cannons, 4 air to airs, at 8.3 BR, I think I can do something in it. LOL, plus it looks cool!
Yes, Im finding, you have to go down to around 7.0 now, but historically if you look at some of the Korean era planes, where are the Missiles, there are none.
I dont know if youre like me, but I have quite a few “top tier” jets, but I just get tired of 18km away airkills. BUT, I love the power of the jets, the climb rate…etc, they can do so much more than the props.
The people that generally play nowadays want missiles, and so they have catered to that, entry level prems at a high BR
Okay, thanks for your contribution mate, and good luck.
Youre, right, but I sure love flying my Spit Mk 24 against those early tier jets, they get a surprise!
Yes, thats the last frontier BR with no missiles in the equation it seems, right at about 7.3.
Thank You
thanks for your TIP. No, its not a skill issue against aim9Bs, but its a different story in a 1 v 1, and an enemy shows up all the sudden when youre involved in a battle, Oh probably not good with their cannon, and they can definitely fire off a paltry aim9b from 1100 meters away and smoke you.
Maybe I need to look around more, and play at that BR more, so I know the planes as well as in some other BRs…hmmm is that a Skill Issue?
Yes, but this topic was more in the frame of history, rather than the “skill issues” that we all have to some point.
I try to be humble on that, even DEFYN, the great Youtube pilot will admit to having Issues, but then he has good social skills.
Thank You and Good Luck, that made me think about looking through the research trees to better identify the jets at those “low BRs”.
Just out of curiosity, what are your skill issues?
Was just about to mention that lol.
More info:
The Aim-9B that got stuck became the K-13 series of missiles (R-3/R-13) and its subvariants. The Soviets never went far with the K-13 (Aim-9) platform, favoring the R-73. But the Chinese did, spawning interesting variants like PL-5, PL-6, and PL-9.
I have a plane that our mates dont talk much about, thats really super good, the JF 17. Its PLs are great in game, and the S10s at a medium range on down, remind me of Micas.
I do okay in it, but, believe it or not I think its because of its lack of power. It turns so quickly, it seems I can get in a notch, Just Like That.
I use it on the outskirts of the battle, so then I can get it back up to speed, cant wait to get into a good cannon dogfight in it, throttle and flaps are missing in BR 13 now, but Im a Me109 and Zero pilot in props, I miss a good jet dogfight, LOL
Thanks for your info mate, youre what the community is all about.
Jav is okay. Boom n’ Zoom tactics are within the limits of what it can do - Just be careful in dives not to snap the wings due to IAS surpassing.
I have top tier too, but I frankly despise it. Between the BR compression, the poor map design and how the gameplay is laid out it’s a garbage experience so rarely ever touch it.
My skill issue comes when I fight Tiger II’s i somehow always manage to hit the drivers optic on the top of the hull when aiming for the turret cheek, so I lose all shell penetration. It is a problem, then again, maybe I’m just that good