Instructor could do with replacing, maybe with something that relates to the FBW systems present on all modern aircraft, instructor is still far too janky to really represent a lot of aircraft correctly and needs to go.
tbf, the whole concept of “supercruise” would imply that the aircraft be able to maintain said speeds for an operationally useful amount of time…
idek what you’d call something going “supersonic but not long enough for it to be useful in any real way”, but i definitly wouldnt call it “cruising” yanno?
Instructor is effectively a FBW system tho… You direct where you want the aircraft to go (with your mouse) and the instructor points the aircraft in said direction.
I think the issue is more that the instructor is notoriously BAD in WT, making the aircraft pull maneuvers that can destroy it, locking it into flat spins despite them being fully recoverable, etc…
It did we have performance data on it
Yeah fair enough. Tbh they could add YF-22 and maybe YF-23 now that EFT going to be added to game. though for YF-23 theyd have to do a little bit of yak 141 treatment.
The problem is they decided on an IIRC largely arbitrary endurance requirement to be included in the article. Then excluded the Lightning on the assumption that as it had infamously poor endurance, it probably wouldn’t meet their requirement (IIRC no one actually made an effort to work out if it did).
I’ve been meaning to dive into the lightning manual sometime and work out what its supercruise endurance actually was. But frankly I’ve always had far more important things to be doing than getting involved in a Wikipedia edit war.
not sure about irl but the mirage f1c can supercruise with a full missile payload at ~15 mins of fuel or lower
I would be amazed if US mains arent complaining about the performance of the Typhoon they seem to think no one else ever built a credible aircraft.
F-16 fm is stupid it needs it needs it’s G limiter reinstated.
Thats your most expensive event/premium vehicle
would be so cool as a squad vehicle though. maybe the YF-22 event, YF-23 squadron or something like that
Perfect
full is 10 isnt it?, SRAAMs can get one double pylon, 8 if you wanna take more mraams
Supercruise speed has never been an issue on any jet in War Thunder.
And flight models of modern aircraft haven’t been issues outside the simplistic flight model architecture causing nuanced issues [such as the ability to do a cobra impacting overall drag, which was somewhat fixed last major update].
This post is also a good idea:
Its a combination of a low drag and high enough thrust on 100% power.
Its easily achievable in the current game as gaijin has already implemented movable intake ramps. (If the EEL is possible & accurate, so can other aircraft)
Part of the super cruise requirement is to have a useful payload for the type of aircraft.
F15E can technically maintain supersonic speeds without afterburner, but it has to be in a clean configuration and low fuel - So it fails the “useful payload” requirement, there are a large number of aircraft that fall into this category.
It took a good while for us to get it there with the EEL the lightning bug report saga was painful
Could anyone give me a bit of a TLDR on what a Eurofighter likes, bfm wise?
Does it rate well? So do I 2 circle people? Does it have a decent radius? do I 1 circle them.
Pretty sure we can take any jet in the game into the vertical since the EJ200s run on pure magic apparantly.
If gaijin models it well, (big IF btw) then it should have all the strengths of both the F-15A and Gripen flight models mixed together, amazing thrust, amazing AoA, incredible sustained rate performance (one of the only aircraft in the world able to sustain a 9G turn until it runs out of fuel, AKA infinite rate in a wt dogfight) while also having great nose authority. When it comes I will personally be flying it like a J-10 in terms of aiming to use the nose authority to wiggle my way onto someone’s tail but it can really be played however you want:
Vertical spiral - beats everything in game
2 circle flat rate - beats most in game
1 circle - beats most in game
sim toggling - hopefully similar to the J-10 during a dogfight
Cherry on top is that it gets MAW and BOL rails so IRCCM missiles like R-73 become a non-issue
and a rather insane radar
Dang, that sounds crazy. Yeah big IF on the flightmodel not being butchered. But I remember the ridiculously hard stompings the Gripens dished out before it 3? rounds of nerfs and its still good.
I suppose I can 2 circle anything that isnt a Hornet or a Viper and I’ll 1 circle those?
What should it, theoretically do, vs Gripen or a Rafale?