F5 is a great dogfighter but its at too high of a BR for it to matter. Both F5C and F5E are free food when uptiered (which happens a lot) but the 1 in 20 matches you get a downtier it feels good
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Some of those games above were 12.0 games
Nearly every plane of the US tree above 10.0 (except the Crusaders actually and the first Harriers) , can carry AIM-9P4/5. It was an export missile for the countries they didn’t want to give AIM-9L/Ms , but USA used it as well as a low cost replacement. Also, most NATO nations used those missiles.
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Meh, not really. My F-4C, F-8E, and A-10A Early all demolish F-5s in 90% of cases.
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Sim, not RB and F5AG and not F5E, but -
I’m sure they do bud!
It might be a skill issue entirely on my part, but I have had significantly better luck playing the F-5A (new one) and F-5C than the F-5E. I know its because the earlier F-5 has a significantly lower weight due to it basically being a child and the F-5E is the 35 year old slightly slimmer 300lber who never grew a single inch taller. The earlier F-5 also feels like it has better guns, despute the fact the F-5A(G) literally uses the exact same variant as the E. Honestly the F-5C is actually more worthwhile than the F-5E is, especially seing as its .3 below and has more countermeasures. The F-5A(G), at the same exact BR, is superior in every way other than engine power
So am I! I’ve seen it first-hand.
Honestly, I just dislike the F-5’s guns in general. Going from something with two Colt Mk.12s (F-8E, A-4E, F4D-1) to the F-5E with two M39s always feels bad.
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I never had much luck with the colts, though I also sucked absolute booty at the F8s. The only kill I ever had with them afaik was that time I shot an Su-27s wing off. The F-5’s guns are some of my favorite in WT, alongside the F4U-4B’s 20mms (I forgot their name) and the DEFAs on the M2K, but everybody has their preference and I’m not one to encroach on that
The F-8E is 10.7. I doesn’t see Su-27s.
I was in the F8U-2 with a buddy of mine who had top tier and he pulled a quick switch-to-the-F-16C-eroo and I decided to bite and somehow shot the wing off a multipathing Su-27
As much as I wish I dont have the replay, this was back when the Su-27S was first added
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Yeah totally! The F-4C is so much better than the F-5E! It’s got uhh, yeah it’s got uhh, oh! more ammo!
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What?