Its a meh strike fighter thrown into a Fighter role since it cant do bombing at its own BR because its too slow, i remember when it was 11.3 and it was DOA for months
Sweden really needs that F/A-18 MLU 2 from Finland
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What they need is the J35 and JA37 flight models to not be beyond borked and for gaijin to never have removed tracers for 3 years and then say they would add the targeting systems to all their aircraft in place of them. Wouldve made the last 3 years enjoyable considering the gunpods on sweden have a worse spray pattern than the ones on the F4J, like a shotgun but with each bullet being a pellet…
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Or you know F 35…
Or even, the F-35???
Meh
So most 10.7 games are 11.7 ground so you have 2 aim 9P3’s to defend yourself and no thermal pod with AGM65A’s if you want 9L you have to sacrifice AGM65A so the best loadout with a 9L is 1xCM pod, 1x 9L, 2x RB75T, 2x P3
At 11.7… that seems fun
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Then perhaps that is too low. When you consider aircraft like the FRS1e only .3 lower and FRS1 is at the same BR.
F-5s are some of the strongest aircraft at that BR only mitigated by poor missiles. 9Ls are not poor missiles. This will be the same BR as the F-5E and I wonder at times whether that is too low.
Especially when you consider their cold fusion engines.
Yes, it is, massively so.
What is the reason for the outer wing pylons not getting 9Ls too BTW, is that realistic or just Gaijin’s “balancing”?
2,5km long range?
The pylons weren’t upgraded unlike the center 4 pylons. The vehicles weren’t fighters they were low alt bombers that would hit the target and leave. The vehicle is also weird cause looking at most swrdish strike fighters they are the ones that are better than the fighters. Once we hit a bit later in the Jet age that actually changes. Again because of its limitations i think its one of the more balanced multirole fighters at 10.7
Its not an exceptional fighter and its not an exceptional strike fighter. Leaning too far into one side will hurt your performance in ground RB. In an uptier you will struggle to deal with SPAA and Anti air against most targets. I think RB75T are more versatile than AGM65A considering its a HE warhead and not a HEAT warhead so its actually much more consistent. But there are a lot of times where you just watch the missile turn 60° just before it hits a taget and just hits the ground.
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Yes up its BR since the F5E FCU and Mig 21Bis/Lazur don’t exist. Why not focus on the poor compression instead of a fighter you wont see after 3 weeks?
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Single AGM65A that cant use a scope to see targets. Also no CCIP Very OP lets ignore the hunter F.58 at 9.7 with a TV and 2 AGM65A’s lmao
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When the Kormoran was introduced on the Dev server it did have the ability to. Then once everyone was abkut to unlock the last mark of distinction for it, they changed it so it couldnt lock onto tanks.
If the missle was programmed to ignore tanks IRL then it shouldnt lock onto tanks in game. They just put out a dev blog on the R2Y2 talking about keeping thw game realistic, then they announce this? Its a double standard.
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I missed an important contraction there; I meant the Penguin shouldn’t be able to target tanks
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I think it should get ccip cuz in the cockpit image of the sight there is a A-G mode button (air to ground) mode. I guess they are not yet done with the plane
We’ll see, so far gaijin hasn’t even tried with this jet, it needs a lot of work put in
Hopefully they’ll address the IR signature as well. Might be fixable if the code used to reduce the IR signature on the F-117 works in both directions. iirc, on the F-117 its a straight 0.5x multiplier, so the inverse is theoretically possible to increases its IR signature to a more reasonable average
Doesn’t really matter the F-5A(G) has two CM pods with 160 CM each. Just need gaijin to actually add the Norwegian modifications.
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All the more reason to have it at higher BR than 11.0.
F-5Cs with 60 CMs are almost OP in their ability to just ignore IR weapons. 320 CMs? Yeah, that makes it incredibly strong and will be totally immune to any IR threat. With that many CMs, it could quite happily be 11.7.