Im thinking in terms of headon merge into dogfight kind of fight where you are trying to get guns on. The Gripen probably has it beat. But yeah, when you factor in things like HOBS IR Missiles + HMD or the sheer powerhosue that is R-27Es. Then that can change.
Came up from a guy who always throws firestarter with lots of texts.
And use necroposts as a power move.
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It isnt. I am just saying you guys are just making the gripen seem like this behemoth of a plane that levels everything it fights when in reality it doesnt even get proper fox1s
“don’t dogfight a better FM” i wasn’t even dogfighting it, i was trying to angle my bores into him, I could just run away and expose myself to open terrain for incoming fox 2s.
Yeah except Gripen cant catch anyone lmao, its slower than everything so anyone with half a braincell will just keep moving, Gripen cant do anything if i run away, literally a more mid Zero at 13.0
wym proper fox ones? it gets sky flashes, like 20 percent of my kills are with it. i always bring 5 9ms and 1 skyflash. also it is a behemoth of a plane. it’s so OP at 13.0 it’s hilarious. it catches basically everything and out dogfights everything other than f-2 at its br. also with the hmd you dont even need the guns, aim 9ms are fantastic in a dogfight with the grippy against most players, just lead them and theyll hit shots sub 1 km. and this is all from me playing this plane for the first time yesterday, and another 10 hours today
The Gripen does okay with the artificially nerfed BOL. The issue imo is that htey nerfed everything with BOL, which includes aircraft like the F3, FA2, Gr7, Viggen D/Di, etc etc which are basically dependent on BOL for half of their BR and yet basically no longer have it.
Even at top tier, its frustrating as hell having to drop dozens of BOL chaff to defeat anything in the Typhoon, when they should be equal to any other regular chaff. They are absolutely regid with things being “realistic”, such as Brimstone not getting a placeholder seeker, but BOL being literally 1/4 its IRL performance (for chaff) is just insane. BOL flares should actually be more on par with large calibre flares just with a short burn time
difference is that grippy is very cold, something like a tornado/harrier is kinda cooked with bol because it’s super hot
Looks a lot like a df… flaring 9m isnt hard now after the patch also
Perhaps, but you cant win matches if you just always run away.
Well, Skyflash is basically AIM-7E-2, so maybe it is debatable whether it is good for 13.0 or not.
Some people think it isn’t, while you and some might think it is.
Maybe it is part of personal preferences?
Yeah ,exactly. So unless they start selectively fixing BOL, everything will get buffed including the Gripen if/when they restore BOL to even its former glory and even then, it was underperforming.
If the amount is too much reduce the number of BOL pods, but nerfing BOL entirely was the worst balancing thing they have ever done
I dunno, i definitely can when im normally playing with my Wingman and he just launches a R27ET at anyone dumb enough to follow me.
Anyone playing like they’re in a F5E at 13.0 isn’t bound to end the match in anything less than a burning wreck. Being too narrow sighted leaves you open from all ends
id rather have a skyflash than a 7m/f at 13.0, i’ve noticed that people have a harder time rolling skyflashes sub 5 km than 7m/7f because of the ridiculous acceleration
how is the AIM-7E-2 when paired with a radar better than AN/APQ-120?
yeak 11.3 missile at 13.0. Its nothing compared to tthe aim7m or the er or even the 530f
Skyflash DFs are only really effective out to 10-12km. Id not really risk anything higher than that unless I was high and fast. But against a Aim-7M, Skyflash ST and especially R-27ER, you dont stand a chance and thats just SARH, with ARH in the mix as well? You wont be BVRing.
Back when the Gripen C was first added to Britain, I use to run 2x Skyflash because sometimes you could catch someone out that could defend against an Aim-9M but not a SARH, but these days, I think the most you need is just the 1. At least that is probably what I would run on the Gripen A, perticuarly as you have to give up a BOL rail per Skyflash you take
That is one of the takes of all time lmao
sparrows themselves are still easy to notch, so they’re not good against anyone that knows what theyre doing, but if they’re occupied or you face the average player (like 80 percent of the player base) they just eat it sub 5 km
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sea level at least that’s stretching it, I would never launch a skyflash past 8 km sea level personally