it has worse acceleration and top speed than blk 15
Almost 20k ftpm less climb rate as well.
Its quite funny to me that people here are crutching on it’s turn rate so hard, oh no it gets dumpstered by the F-18s still which are at a lower BR.
Rate fighting abilities are comically irrelevant at this BR range.
it dosent
the 16xl has a smaller turn radius and can pull more aoa than the f18
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Not all about rate fighting ability, but energy retention, and in the case of the F-16XL, the ability to just turn so fast in any direction while retaining a decent amount of energy.
The gripen for example, has very subpar climb rate but it is still is an amazing platform for different reasons. Just suffers from a bad loadout
the f16 xl has a good turn rate, but it literally sucks at slow speed fights, because it still is an f16 and doesn’t like being slow. go ahead and test fly the f16xl and stall yourself with nose up. it quite literally wont bring the nose down lmao, you have to turn off the afterburner for it to drop its nose and recover.
you are complaining that you arent stalling
you are complaining that the plane dosent depart even at extremly low speeds
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no, i am saying when the aircraft stalls (100-150kmh ias) with its nose up, elevator input doesn’t bring its nose down if the afterburners are engaged. you have to turn it off for it to point its nose down again, showcasing its terrible low speed manueverability (though any aircraft would be bad at 150kmh ofc, im just saying it doesnt like fighting slow).
that is not a good thing, it means the elevators arent strong enough to bring the nose down on its own, relying on cutting the thrust just to recover.
It’s among the best jets at slow speed, if not the best, what the hell are you talking about?
me when I go retard in full controls
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how so? recovering energy 1kmh per year? it turns nice, but once you get it really slow it goes stupid.
not really, you can test it out yourself with normal controls
oh no my elevators arent working when there is basically no airflow over them
how shocking
Why would it? The elevator has no airflow at that speed. You are comparing with the F-18 and Su-27 variants which seem to have overperforming elevators and rudders that can move the aircraft nose at under 100kph in stall conditions
other delta wing aircraft do not do this btw
Because gaijin FM’s are not that realistic
yes they wont be able to stand on their tail at 150kph beacuse they arent modeled like a complete UFO
unlike the F-16XL
its only just been added. its normal for FMs to be nuts on initial addition, to be tuned later
that is exactly what i’m saying. i’m not saying that its unrealistic, and i’m not saying other planes aren’t overperforming, i’m saying its not great at the stall fight. i’d advise going lower than 300kmh with an f18 in the f16xl
it dosent need to be because the f16xl will never stall
it can pull 45° of AoA before starting to stall
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of course, this is true for planes that you mentioned like the f18 and su27. a mirage f1c that gets uptiered to 13.0 stands no chance against this lmfao
“it’s not great at the stall fight”. its a delta wing, it has tons of lift, “IF” you manage to make it stall, there are better planes in the low speed.
A stall maneuver is a dumb move most of the time anyway. Regardless, the F-16XL has some of the best slow speed to near stall speed handling you can find. It’s just missing the AoA button to make it easy with mouse aim