No, it isn’t, HO229 has a faster top speed and high-speed acceleration when it is over 700km/h. the energy retention is because HO229 has better maneuverability.
Yes it is similar, but acceleration and top speed is worse, if they move to 7.7, then will suffering F84G and better Meteor like mk8, but it has better fire power.
MK108 is pretty hard to use, and that’s why I insist that 262 needs to 6.7, which might save German JU288 players
The top speed difference isn’t that large, and the Ho-229 doesn’t have the acceleration to use all of it. Get the Horten to turn once, and it’s an easy kill due to its awful energy retention.
For F80, that is useless, Ho229 can catch you very easily with high-speed acceleration, and the only way F80 can do is cancer roll because HO229 is hard to aim at high speed, once in low speed the F80C is like suicide, even the low speed acceleration difference isn’t large as well.
F-80s feel quite fine where they are, quite good planes. Only problem is they are immediately outclassed by planes one small step above them. Sabres and Migs at 8.0 and 8.3 can dance all over them. Even the meteors at 8.0 are much better imo. As almost always, the problem is compression. Honorable mention to the Su-11, which is very strong competition with the C model, but somehow lower in br…
7.3 has already got enough good planes, like Sea Meteor/SU11/ME262C-1, F80c drop to 7.3 is doesn’t matter, and the same with F9F-2, I don’t know how could they against 8.0 jets like MIG15ish or F86A
Its not about the 7.3 planes, its about the planes at 6.7 and 6.3 it would face in a downtier. Its better that the F-80C suffers a bit in uptiers, than an entire BR gets demolished by it.
We do need not only F80C drop to 7.3, but also others like F9F or ME262 move to lower BR.
Some 7.3 jets are better than 7.7 is a total joke, BR extension is also unacceptable, unless you move up all BR, even the ground vehicles, if you move those 7.3-8.0 planes, then what about 8.3-9.0? same logic. and also there is nothing too much difference between F80C and F80A