Other than the f8 its all.on other, better overall trees.
F20 looks.cool but.premium… struggling for more
you know that F35 is rated to pull significantly more AOA than EFT right?
its rated up to 50 degrees of AOA
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Unless Gaijin feels like trolling I don’t think the F-22 will arrive in it’s very 1st form, not with what’s already in the game lol
wut
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I think he focuses too much on stats, or he plays SIM too much. In ARB, everyone wants to fly high to have the best possible situational awareness instead of doing multipath, because you can’t effectively multipath while also dodging IR missiles and staying alert for unseen enemies approaching from some blind angle.
Good missiles are more impactful than good FM in regular matches — the Tornado F3 is a good example.
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F35a 9g f35b 7g f35c 7.5g
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Sure other tree might have better variant then the one found in the US tree but it still has few good planes like A10C, F-4E and F-18A
If they’re going to implement Gen 5 they might as well implement ECM antenna/pods
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I wouldnt underestimate Gaijins capabilities to give into the assured crying if the F22 hits the dev without HMD. But tbh depending on the missiles it gets a HMD-less F22 might actually be quite mid
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This is the exact opposite of my experience. Almost everyone in air rb above 10.7 roleplays as a lawnmower, and this was even more true in the gripen IRCCM meta with 100m metre multipathing. Only at top tier and when the Mig-25 was added is when you see most people climbing high.
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the best way to have situational awareness back then was to run an F-16C or Gripen with a Targeting Pod, 9M orbital strike was pretty potent too if you achieved full surprise
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more AOA doesnt save a plane, the SEPECAT Jaguar pulls brilliant AOA but still blows because of a poor initial and sustained turn rate.
I doubt it will be a 90s raptor as that would only get AIM-120 and AIM-9M
I think its more likley to be a mid noughties raptor where it has 9X and good AMRAAMs but no HMD to give the guys with only super hornets, gripen or lightnin iis a chance.
Uhhh f18 early and late? We can definitely have a f22 early and late. And if they give american f22 early vs su57. oh man
What I said was ‘want to,’ because here you can’t use the F-5 to climb — it’s obviously useless. It’s not that players don’t want to fly high, it’s just that they don’t have the capability to do it.
If you don’t have good RWR and any Fox-1 or Fox-3 missiles to fight back against opponents who do have those capabilities, then you’re forced to fly low — it’s not because you want to.
Most aircraft from 11.0 and below don’t have good RWR or Fox-1s, so they don’t want to fly high just to say hello to a MiG-25, MiG-23, F-4, or J-8B.
I dont think HMD would save it once a eurocanard gets close. The raptors only hope is BVR, and they will struggle there as the MBDA Meteor is better than amraam
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Meteors at close range would be a problem however if the raptor some how mange to evade those meteors and get into a dog fight it can win against them
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Meteor vs Aim 120D LMAO
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I’ve never used a missile to cause people to do things last year.
I’ve used my presence to cause them to do things, because having missiles but not firing them is also psychological pressure on the enemy.
If I want an enemy to do what I want, I usually just back off and they’ll turn around and lose advantage that way.
I’ve also never seen an R-27ER retaliation. I heard about them, I’ve done it once in sim with the Yak-141 where I launched then quickly throttle 0 and airbrake on.
I however never saw anyone else do this, partly because it’s such a niche use case.
The situation needs to be just right, and most of the time that situation never arises for anyone.
Especially when multipathing is strong and was started being used due to F-14A and F-4J/S/FGR2/FG1.
People focus too much on stats while I never do.
In air sim, people love flying high.
Maybe but an F22 with HMD and AIM9x for sure has better chances than one without and 9Ms
Assuming we get meteors and gaijin doesn’t butcher them lol
Depends on the missiles we get. Winning a dogfight without hmd even with 9Xs against and EFT with hmd and Iris t should be quite a challenge
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and?
F35A is known to have comparable sustained turn rate with F16s IRL (which means its pretty close to most eurocanards) (also due to the significantly larger wing area F35C likely has a higher sustained turn rate, but this is hard to know due to slightly more weight + would need a gunpod)
where AOA matters is lower speed and significantly delaying stall
but your point about 9Gs being the limit is absurd, because that is about the same as almost every other western high tier plane due to that being about the most a pilot can take, in game all structural G limits are multiplied by 1.5
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Hopefully AIM-260 enters service before 5th gen are added in game so that F-22 gets it if newer F-22 is added
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