F-16I Sufa at 14.0? What

im squarely in average territory in terms of skill level but i generally dont have much luck past 25km.

Ah taht makes more sense. was thinking: “hang on, are the CFTs a T2 mod or something” would be 100% a Gaijin trick

Actually, lets not give them any ideas

If I am flying straight to you, you won’t kill at over 7-10km (depending on my jet) with a fox3. I have plenty of time to notch, a mica might be more troublesome though.

If you kill someone at long range, either they are not paying attention, or might be busy notching another missile at a different aspect.

I try to launch my missiles at 15km or less, unless I need to push someone at greater distance that is actively engaging me

ive notched sub 5 kilometers mica before, notching is insanely strong

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Micas are considerably harder though, not only do you need to be more precise with the notch and avoid IOG path, but the missile itself is the fastest accelerating one so you have less time to do so

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that would be true if we would live in a world where everyone is good at the video game
however the concept of notching etc is relatively new when it comes to war thunder, and more people keep buying top tier premiums and grinding for that sweet (not so sweet) top tier vehicle dream.

in ideal world, basically every missile in game is dodgeable, but we do not live in ideal world, and mistakes happen.

also afaik mica’s seeker is the hardest one to notch

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yes those micas are scary fast coupled with the tvc theyre terrifying.

The R-77 doesn’t have TVC and still does incredibly hard turns, TVC helps if you are launching micas while at near stall speeds because the missile will turn hard with little initial speed.

R-77 isn’t nearly as fast though, nor does it have the better seeker that only the mica enjoys

yes but not to the level of the mica, r-77 takes noticeably more than mica to turn, mica will crank 90° off the rails

Can someone make a bug report the engines should easily make 13556KG of thrust however gaijin thinks having the same engine as the f15 it should have the weakest engine out of the f-16 block15+

well we have a probably overtiered F-16I and a massively undertiered F-16A OCU…

Gaijin forgot to move it up, it’s better than the tech tree variant for ARB

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it is weird that its a br step lower then its basically copy pasted brother in the tech tree

Better than copy paste, it has the magic 2

thats absolutely fucking insane, doesnt it have magic 2s and aim9m???

Yes, at 12.7…
Meanwhile the tech tree one is 13.0 without the magic 2 and slightly better air to ground ordnance

jeeeeeesus, where are my r73s on the mig29a gayjin

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I was sure it would be 13.0, but I guess gaijin wants their quick cash grab as always

Probably, when people naturally research it with squad points it will be 13.0

Shame gaijin. The OCU is better than the french F-16A while being lower BR. Makes no sense

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I do think it’s unintentional, just someone forgetting to move it.
I don’t want to make a bugreport so maybe I should ping a mod to see if that’s intentional or not.

Its clearly not unintentional. It was an highly discussed topic that it would be OP at 12.7, which fueled the soviet mains to start crying about the mig-29 not having R-73 at 12.7 aswell.

It’s a squadron vehicle that will take a long time to reserch unless you spend a lot of money, this is what they want.