Well I can’t talk bad about Morvran too much, he’s one of the people whose posts I give likes to the most. Part of it is because of the volume of posts he does that I am bound to end up agreeing with some of them.
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I will say though that I got insulted two days later today by a different person for a comment that amounted to “AESA-EFT doesn’t suffer” and they happen to be a British main afaik, so it can happen that you get attacked if you don’t agree with certain narratives.
IRST is likely to be knocked off since it can get a centerline IRST pod that was seen in the datamines, although that’s something you have to lug around XD.
Afaik, F-15E has better acceleration and climbrate than the Typhoon although it’s very very close, but the F-15EX also ends up being heavier than the F-15E so it will be interesting to see if the Typhoon finally ends up taking the acceleration/climbrate crown.
I think it will still be a somewhat popular plane to use just look at the amount f14’s that are in game still being used like personally their always 1-3 f14’s per match for the matches I played
I’d argue the Captor-E has overall the best radar.
Yes, the Su-30SM2’s Irbis-E can see basically a bit behind itself, however this is only really useful in somewhat close range that the R-77-1 can pull enough towards a target beyond 100° off the nose (which it sometimes fails to do). In terms of “default” elevation scans, the Captor-E blows it out of the water as you don’t need to constantly adjust the beam to find someone and you can track multiple people at different altitudes all within the same “beam” (ie not relying on the feature that allows you to still track targets you’re not actually pointing the radar at).
I’d say the Captor E beats it in overall situational awareness, while the Irbis-E is better at “yes I’m running away, but here’s a R-77-1 as a parting gift”
I’ll have to take your word on it because I just knew Irbis-E had a bit more scan speed and gimbal limits than the ECRS Mk2, but if what you say is true then I’ll have to regard the Captor-E as the best radar in-game.
It would most likely be F-16 PoBIT as no new US F-16 has been added in quite a while. If PoBIT has similar FM to F-16C, then at least it would have good FM and acceleration however 6 missile would definitely be a problem unless gaijin gives it a fake double AMRAAM rack (which is very unlikely)