Iam saying that iam rarely seeing matches with France on red side these days
A dogfight isn’t only won by AoA best example is the f16 (irl)
Ah, right yeah. No idea, I hate fighting them, so I avoid those matches if I can
Well, it is always fun to me when you get one singular rafale ping on RWR and then they disappear (bc they switched to irst) and you already know what is coming in the next 30 seconds
We are far removed from reality here.
Winning rate fights is nice but it is not the only way as Mirage pilots would tell you.
Currently Rafale will likely pull on your six somewhat easily.
If missiles are involved you now just die in War Thunder’s Eurofighter.
Perhaps at speeds below 900 km/h Eurofighter can outrate Rafale in a guns only fight but you will likely never reach that speed.
Dosen matter much because rafale is going to bleed speed and you also have a higher Str when bleeding speed.
Max G-pull and AoA aren’t deciding factors if you play the EF correctly
I tend to stick at max range. Between the useless radar that needs a few years of micro managing to get to lock onto anything and the weapons better suited for BVR than WVR. If im getting RWR pings from something like an Su-30 or Rafale and I cannot find the target on radar, I go full defensive and run away.
Current War Thunder Rafale will be just pointing it’s nose. And at the speeds you are likely to fly at in AIR RB it will have more than enough speed/energy to exchange for positioning while Eurofighter will actually struggle to bleed speed.
Iam specificly talking about situations where they think they are sneeky with their IRST after pinging your RWR and you know exactly what is coming
You know what you need to do in those situations?
Put the fight in the vertical.
You don’t have to stay horizontal and going vertical is ideal against someone who just bleed all his speed to get on your 6
I’ve yet to encounter a Rafale pilot smart enough to do that. I’ve gotten the odd kill in the Typhoon by doing that, as they just dont see the Aim-9M coming (though they really need to hurry up and fix AIm-9M lock range)
Usually they just start slinging MICA EMs at me
Just hope they dont then take advantage of the fact you are sat on max reheat, in a position that isnt going ot defend easily to sling an HOBS Magic II or MICA EM up your tail pipe
This is the key point here.
Top tier is not guns only. Yes, the Typhoon has the better FM, but that advantage is lost with the lack of HOBS missiles. Rafale might be slightly weaker (and should be a lot weaker if both airframes were modeled correctly) but HOBS just closes the gap in performance completely and flips the advantage
We are not talking about Bf-109F/G vs Spitfire V here…
Pre flaring helps alot even tho they are just small caliber
So you don’t think the same ruels apply to a jet?
How foolish of you
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Actually, I think the default set up these days, is running pure flares in the large calibre internals and pure chaff in the BOLs.
That way you dont have to waste flares having to assume what is being dropped is a BOL. But still, Pre-flaring might protect you from a Magic II, i’ve had mixed success with a Magic II fired from extremely short range at me and doesnt do anything against a MICA EM, BOL Chaff isnt good enough to defeat anything on its own
Looks legit, now where is this from
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Unless I used noise detection wrong, he did, although pretty sure a source can be given, as this can also be from a game or whatever
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