Fly it in sim.
Just like most dedicated attackers, actually.
I know it’s a lame excuse for people who prefer RB, but really, if you especially enjoy flying attackers/bombers in RB, you’ll probably be even more at home in Sim…
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In sim mode it has full performance? Because in real life the F-111 should almost be the fastest plane in the game
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10.7 is a downtier to where it was before.
10.7 = 10.0 equivalent due to the BR decompression.
It will ultimately see less than it did prior.
As for bombs. 2 3000s, or 4 3000s is the best loadout for bombs.
Otherwise you bring rocket pods.
I didn’t talk about performance. I talked about the fact that you don’t have to race faster accelerating (=/= faster) fighters for rarely spawning bases all located beneath the massive fighter furball that is RB.
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I prefer 2 x aim9b, 2x pockets, 2x 3k lb bombs + gun like this. you can swing wings and be slightly faster
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They should consider adding AIM-9Es or even AIM-9Js at this point for the F-111A’s current state and BR.
It’s almost straight-up pointless to play even in Air RB compared to something like the F-4 Phantom which may not carry as many bombs as the but at least doesn’t bleed so much damn speed like it’s an entire flying airbrake in the slightest of turns to regain acceleration while also having the hottest temperature jet engines in the game (same as F-14A’s) for IR missiles to fall in love tracking like an abusive ex-girlfriend really doesn’t help it either.
The F-111 is also massive in size as a jet, being one of if not the biggest current jets in the game to easily hit with aircraft guns only.
It’s pretty much a free SL/XP pinata plane at this point and I feel pretty guilty whenever I see or kill one.
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The thing is a joke at 10.7. Massive drag nerfs so it can barely even break mach 1, misaligned cannon sights, and it doesn’t even get its HISTORICAL 9J’s. They also decided to nerf its CM’s with this patch, they are no longer large caliber.
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you can wing swing with that loadout??? I thought any rockets disabled wing sweep
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Missiles attach to sides of second pilon, so they don’t block wing swip. Except you use gunpods that always block wing swip.
So why not create a bug report about this? I always support historical changes.
Rip half your earnings, though, as the bombs >750lbs give you less SL and RP (last time I checked). Idk why they decided to make it so that you could only have one pair of 500lbs, 750lbs, or rocket pylons.
I almost have the F-111A and I’d like to see the gun alignment fixed.
The slow acceleration is accurate for the A model, a major gripe the navy had with the F-111 was that it was underpowered. More powerful engines came in later models, and the top speed is not in question.
I don’t know why but Instructor SEVERELY limits the F-111’s agility in game. Turn it off and see how well it turns. A revision to this would be nice. But also a revision to the HORRENDOUS speed wash while turning. I don’t know if there is any real world evidence to suggest an F-111 would go from mach 1.2 to doing 500km/hr in a single 180 degree turn. It’s so bad that even slight inputs on the stick make you slow down, further crippling the issue of the poor acceleration.
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This one is more for ground targets for grind i have setup like this
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F-111s didn’t get later Sidewinders until later in life on later models. The F-111A currently in game only had 9Bs in real life. There will likely be more F-111s added to War Thunder eventually.
Gaijin had said they didnt add the Aim9J to the F111 for balance reasons. I believe it was included in the devblog or it was the devstream.
There has already been the appropriate bug report submitted, acknowledged, and Gaijin refuses to add them for “balance”
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Well like I said, it’s historically accurate anyway. The 9J wasn’t even released until 5yrs after the F-111, and being a strike aircraft it may not have gotten them right away regardless. The F-111D and even the F-111F were out by the time the AIM-9J was introduced to service.