In Sim at least, it will be fine, barely anyone plays the bracket anyway :D
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Given the current missile models, my money is still on the F117 unfortunately
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if the Red Tops can lock, then they are perfectly usable, especially if you come up behind a F-117 That has no idea you are even there. They are just bad in a dogfight.
also, they are designed to lock onto sub-sonic jets and even props in all-aspect, even with IR reducing things the F-117 is probably hot enough for a lock most of the time
It is played!
Mostly by bombers.
So many bloody bombers.
… That all leave if you fly out a fighter and start shooting them.
(experience so far with the F2H2 and F86A5)
9/10 I go to play the Javelin or Sea Vixen, there is no lobbies at all. So I may just be getting unlucky. But yeah, hunting Tu-4s is fun. Until they rage quit. Though them calling me a noob for using a missile instead of guns on the Sea Vixen is always funny
I mean sure if you catch someone complete unaware just about anything works.
But the number of times I’ve seen guys dive away and out accelerate red tops with the Sea Vixen has left me very disappointed, especially since they should have atleast some limited all aspect capability.
True, but the advantagte of Sim is that most are unawares usually and you can set up good intercepts with the radar.
Also, Red tops should have full all-aspect, easily able to lock onto a sub-sonic aircraft at 3.5km.
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I need to go back to sim, I haven’t played there much recently. Mostly been hunting airplanes in GRB.
Nothing quite as satisfying as jumping in the Lynx and sprinting to an ambush point and ATAS’ing guys in SU-25’s and A-10’s who think they’re safe. Very sad when the Lynx got moved up.
Now I have to fly the OH58. But thinking about jumping over to Italy to do the same with the Gazelle and its mistrals
Yeah, I normally just do that with the FRS1. One good thing from the decompress is that I can bring the SQV instead of the FRS1e so I get 2x more 9Ls.
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Yeah that was what attracted me to the Vixen, other than being an aviation guy and it being a neat niche aircraft. Being able to punish unaware CAS and ignorant PE-8 players trying to spam GRB was hilariously fun.
Just wish you could initial spawn in a CAP plane and I’d play a lot more jet
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I’m still hoping this thing is at least 9.7 for grb, otherwise… it’s gonna be A-4E ALL OVER AGAIN. AAs won’t be able to kill it, and it will get free kills.
it is precisely the BRs I predicted. 8.7 for air and 10.0 for ground.
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I think thats perfect
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From testing videos it seems like the limited bomb capacity balances the stealth aspect - however while I acknowledge that they are playtesting stealth at the moment, the stealth aspect has been heavily buffed.
Some planes won’t lock the Nighthawk until they’re practically about to kiss.
I still think this will be most usless plane in game. Unfortunately
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It can still be shit down with guns tho. And with markers in AirRB you can quite easily find it.
Yeah, the plane isn’t going to be breaking any BR.
It gives me hope though that the MiG-25/31PD comes to Russia as an event vehicle given it’s assumed DoA status.
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Oh the 117 recived a stealth buff today?
I was referring to that it’s stealth factor seems artificially higher than it should be. Stealth doesn’t mean that you are invisible to radars completely, it just reduces the distance at which you can be detected.
Within 2ks, every stealth aircraft should be picked up by even the earliest radars.
Considering the testing I have tried and the testing I’ve seen from youtube videos. Unless it had its values changed it is far from over preforming.
Also where do you get your information about it’s preformance against certain radars?
Yes stealth reduces not eliminates but early radars were really not that great. So how would you know if the 117 is over preforming everything is a crap shoot.
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