here is me one flaring an aim-9l 900m away from me with full AB on lol
Shhhh… If you mention any attacker jet in front of him, you will be redesignated as an attacker main who has a delusion that an attacker can beat a dedicated fighter jet from the fighter mafia… :/
While he ignores that there is no other role than ‘being an inferior fighter jet and slaughtered’ for the attacker jet in ARB nowadays, and the British don’t have a proper fighter jet to fight against F-5C in radius of its BR.
Maybe he feels jealous about PL-5B of J-7D?
From looking at those SEP 0 lines, that’s not much of a mismatch as you make it sound.
They have similar rate speeds at slow speed and for the F-5 to have an edge in the ratefight, it would need to make big circles which might give enough room for the mig-21 to force the 1C into a vertical and stall the fight or disengage eventually if the F-5 gets slow. The mig-21 has better twr and is faster so running away mid dogfight shouldn’t be an issue since the F-5 can’t get into your six right away.
What the F-5 does well is getting in and out of furballs at high speed while having an easy time to get guns on target, for a 1v1 its not that amazing since it rates poorly at slow speed and has a hard time regaining energy.
I haven’t played any F-5’s outside the F-5A(G) and F-5E FCU, but the F–5E felt extremely powerful with x4 all aspect missiles and UFO flight model.
F-5A(G) was a similar experience but no level 75 crew to expert made it quiet difficult to utilize properly in dogfights, but can easily see it being just as easy to use if I had the crew to expert like I did for Japan.
yeah, thats the speed of whooping 400kph, the speed of basically falling out of the sky!
nobody ever would ratefight at those speeds, its straight up suicide
that’s why its good in ARB
i could have conveyed my message better, but the f-5 really does outrate a mig21mf in most cases
in no way is it a “bottom tier plane” as some claim
just to make it clear, i don’t think that the f-5c is some kind of oppressive plane in its br range, its just that the boeing guy claims that is woefully bad and that its bad at everything (yep even the guns)
Thats exactly about the speeds I see people dogfighting 95% of the time.
But what I mean is that while the f5 can have 18deg/s at high speeds in wide circles, its not enough to force the rate fight against the mig21 which is a superior 1c fighter with better twr.
Sustained turn rate isn’t everything, if you have to ratefight in wide circles, it gives plenty of options for your opponents to counter two circle by either trying to force the 1 circle inside your turns, or trying to offset the 2 circle, usually by going vertical.