The radius of the F-15 really isn’t that smaller than the Mig. It’s a fact it holds energy much better. You can try with turning at similar G load as well and you’ll see how much energy the soviet bleed.
It’s especially handicapping against Fox 3, because you need to turn to notch at close range, but losing that much speed in a turn just make the plane a big target for the IOG.
The thing is, the Mig basically fall out of the sky in a turn. You stay inside ONE turn. Then you dies because the plane also doesn’t have a high T/W to get back to speed while the F-15 can dance around it.
It’s basically impossible to win a 1v1 against F-15 that knows what he’s doing with the Mig. You have one chance, and it’s a high AOA turn with R73. Preflare that, and it’s game over.
F-16 is even more ridiculous.
Seriously, you’ll see when you’ll get your hand on it. That flight model is horrible. It just feels bad to fly.
It’s especially striking when compared to the Mirage 2000, a full Delta design. With its new FM the 2000 has high energy retention at high speed, and if you carefully limits the G load it basically can stay at mach 1 in a 180° turn. The Mig29 is incapable of that.
I know Mig-29’s and SU-27’s flight models have too much drag, but I just doubt that it is as bad as people claim it is. People keep describing those 2 as the worst planes ever, unusable.
Yeah, I was shocked when a Mirage was outrating me in an F-16 once.
Right now you need to drag the Mirage 2000 to low speed to win. It has insane energy retention above 800-900km/h, but below that it’s like it has a completely different FM and it’s suddenly a brick.
Yeah, I’ve never done so poorly in Sim games. I’m going 3 kills for 13 deaths. I’m a fairly good pilot, and understand the game.
Yet chaffing + notching + going over Mach 1.2, + being 10 meters off the ground = still getting hit by Aim-120 there is nothing that can be done.
It’s just as OP as the Aim-9m
Meanwhile, even if I fire first, with a 5 sec lead, the R-77 doesn’t seem to track at all if the mig / su radar isn’t locked on.
So I don’t understand, how come USA has been allowed to own top tier air for over the last year if not longer? Most people play USA in sim because they are so OP, which makes the imbalance worse. Last time I checked the F-16C has a 94% winrate with about a 7.29 kd / death.
It’s not just you. There is a reason why it’s hard to find an open lobby while playing usa in sim. I’ve tried playing both and the results are clear: SMT is overall not good, which leaves only the su27sm as viable option, which also isn’t that good. In the latter aircraft to secure a temporary victory over a let’s say, F-16C, you need to spam like 3 R-73s after a merge and pray that they won’t spin out of control. As for the SMT, it drops radar lock too easily for some reason, and also lacks -20 Degrees of radar elevation (its -40), which means its kinda annoying to get on a direct notch without having to drop lock
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I’m 100% convinced you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Learn and keep trying.
How come Russia has been allowed to rule the sky above 100m for the last year if not longer? With new BR brackets they still do in brackets without FOX 3s, but above 60m.
Most people play USA, because their planes are famous, the best in real life and are featured in Hollywood.
Where did you get these numbers from? The win rate is highly probable, but a kd of over 7 seems ridiculous to me. I’ve never checked vehicle’s stats on any website, can you link it?
And everyone abused Multipathing and killed the Su-27 that had horrible flight performance. Gripens flew at 50 meters with periodic flaring and destroyed your “op” R-27ER slinging Su-27
R-27ER killed BVR, multipathing saved top tier from R-27ER. Multipathing didn’t kill BVR, there still is multipathing right now, which you can still easily use, but people do fly high.
If something has to be taken out of equation, to not destroy gameplay, and it isn’t OP as hell, I don’t know what is.
You’re basically saying that it wasn’t fair, because Russian mains didn’t get to abuse their OP missile as much as they would like to.
They did, a lot of the times R-27ER would hit the ground and splash you, sometimes you were a little too high and got smacked. Some people, myself included, tried to do BVR anyway, with all the disadvantages, that resulted in death very often too. You could launch an R-27ER from like 7000m of altitude at someone at 100m and because it was going basically straight down, it would go through the target while it was going for the ground below him.
If SU-27 truly was as garbage as you say, how come I saw people with 20 kills in it very often. The answer is simple, it was a garbage plane and a good/very good missile bus.
Now it’s a garbage plane with garbage missiles, rendering it useless in the current situation. Even if i sling AIM-120s like a clueless monkey in my F-15C, because of the insane flight model and acceleration, i sling them at like 40 KM distance with 2000 KM/H speed, and get 2-3 kills this way.
In SU-27, literally anything you do is futile. Notch? Lose all speed. The radar is garbage. R-77 is garbage. Acceleration is meh. Flight model is garbage. 4 wasted slots on R-73 because getting close is suicide now. HMS lock range is garbage at 10KM, irst locks flares more than F-15 hot engines
thats just too small to matter. Just getting a new RWR making it equal to all competition does not really make the platform that much better, especially when the 12.3 mirage 2000 delta wing design has better energy retention than this piece of garbage that has archaic ancient radar from the stone age.