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The booster mod and the G-Suit are pretty much mandatory for the Gripen. So id hold judgement until then.
They are Skyflash DFs. As soon as you get AIm-9Ms for those pylons, dont take them anymore. They are a pretty weak SARH missile for 12.0, let alone 13.0.
I have found issues in the past with the Skyflash DF and the Phantoms radar where it didnt seem to like guiding them very well when in PD. But would have to see a replay to comment as to why your Skyflashes weren’t tracking right.
Also, I have done no ARB or ASB matches since the major update. But I’ve heard missiles are… well to say buggy, would be an understatement.
Stick with it, grab the bomb mod, and base bomb until you can replace those bombs with Aim-9Ms, you’ll be a lot happier I think. If you can, play it in ASB as well.
The Gripen sits in a tricky spot, where its one of the best IR missile dogfighters in the game, but at a BR where it will routinely face ARH slingers. It cannot go down, but needs to
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the rb71 locks onto something else. And then doesnt track it either. The sensory view shows that the seeker is tracking. It just doesn’t act on it and doesn’t move its wings or whatever they are called. It just goes straight. The rb71s have been pretty crap ever since the update. I play the ja37c religiously. I know when things are not right with those missiles. They went from being one of the best missiles of 11.3 to to worst.
I am gonna be honest with you I don’t think that’s the case anymore. I have seen other videos of people playing it and anything ranging from an f2 to an f16 just wipes to floor with it. I have no experience with 9ms so I cant say anything about those. I heard they have the worst kind of irrccm tho.
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Then Id just say, blame it on the Bug Thunder Major update.
9Ms are different. Which is better is strictly speaking based upon the BR. Definetly the weakest at ultra short range dogfighting, but good when used right.
gun.
Gripen is better than the F2 for the first few turns, but then the F-2 should win. The only planes that a JAS39 loses to in a dogfight are F-2, Rafale and eurofighters. AIM-9Ms just straight up don’t turn close quarters, so don’t be too reliant on them in a dogfight scenario.
dont have em rn. Also I am still in the 11.3 mentality since 13.0 is super new to me. I still play like my missiles only pull 20g so I kinda basically on launch rear aspect. Old habits die hard.
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wait is your clan tag hz6 ?
Getting chaff before missiles is crazy
huh ? Its fox3 spam out there
Am doing the worst I have ever done in any plane rn. I got 1.5-2kd In every plane I like and my gripen kd is 0.3. Everyone else just has longer range weapons so I cant do anything
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Morvran already said what I wanted to say, but
are we talking about swedish JAS-39 Gripen A in Warthunder?
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Yeah, friends clan.
I mean I said that when I was stock so It was correct at that time. It still struggles at higher speeds tho
Are we in the same clan ?
Nope
stock performance will always be worse.
its peak turn rate is actually similiar to EFT and better at higher speeds.
Am gonna be honest with you I have no goddamn idea on what am looking at
Speed is along the bottom
Turn rate is vertical
Blue is Gripen A
Orange is EFT
Green in Rafale.
You can see that the Rafale can maintain a higher sustained turn rate at a higher speed than the Gripen A and Typhoon and according to this, the Gripen A can perform better than the Typhoon.
Though thats just the solid lins, I dont really undestand the dashed lines
But I have heard that statshark (where this graph comes from) doesnt work well with the Typhoon, but is usually okay for comparisons