How does one actually play the F/A-18C Early? It is easily the most dogwater jet I’ve ever played, it can’t turn, has an awful loadout, not enough countermeasures and it’s slow. I’m not new to jets, I have top tier in Britain and basically top tier in Russia and Japan but holy this thing is the biggest pile of garbage I think I’ve ever played. Fly high? Nope you’re getting touched by R-27ERs, “Just notch bro” only works when there’s one enemy firing at you. What if you had to spend the whole game flying defensive “Just notch bro” so that your entire team is dead. Fly low? Get slapped up when your entire team died as you only have 60 countermeasures. THIS IS AWFUL
Hornet cant turn? Wtf you are on about?
6x 7Ps are awesome for its BR.
While R-27ERs are dangerous theyre on platforms with dogwater radars.
If you get fired at by multiple enemies from multiple directions thats positioning issue not aircraft issue.
If you get fired at by multiple enemies from single direction, usually at range, just go cold.
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Have you ever played it? It’s got a worse turn than a MiG-29 which was notoriously bricked years ago
Just… no. The 7P loses lock on absolutely everything, you can’t relock them because its DL is atrociously bad and goes for the ground every single time.
MiG-29 9-12?
Then how does one position
Bro what are you on? Press the special maneuver button and outturn everything.
Also 9L’s and 7p’s are great what?
Honestly forgot that was a thing because I am a prop main.
9Ls on their way to get flared by everything under the sun:
7Ps on their way to lose track and fail to relock because it got bored:
Bruh
Dont fire 9L’s above 3-4 km. Also make sure that the enemy is paying little attention. With the aim 7p’s go for high flying targets or headons, dont shoot them at ppl flying away from you since the pd track struggles with those.
I broke my “no preorders” rule for it.
I played both 18C early and MiG-29 and Hornet is much more agile.
7Ps are great and I will die on this hill, especially when compared to 7F/Ms. IOG alone would make them worthwile upgrade, DL is just cherry on top.
Fact that sparrows act stupid is game engine issue, one that has been plaguing warthunder close to 2 years now, maybe even longer.
The 12.7 one. Extremely easy to notch, speaking from both my experience flying it and flying against it.
certainly not at the tip of the spear, 18C early doesnt have CM count for that.
I usually hang back in the second line, around 5km or just below the contrail alt and sling my sparrows at targets.
In downtier if im feeling it i play more aggresively.
They just don’t track anything.
Hence them being bad
No, no it isn’t, from my experience both flying it and going against it
What about high altitude? yk the only way the 7P even pretends to be viable
thats what about 18000? gets touched by R-27/AIM-120/insert radar missile here
I’m not trying to be rude, just trying to understand why none of this ever works for me
yeah but 7F/Ms just go on their own happy little adventure if they decide they feel like it. whereas 7Ps thanks IOG and DL get tardwrangled into submission and actually being usable.
Ill admit i dont have hard data on hand, so take the following with grain of salt.
As far as I know, 12.7 MiG-29s radar has both slow scan speed, and high minimum relative speed to pick up the targets. Meaning it is rather easy to notch.
You do know that you need to keep track of the target?
Which is why not tracking something is an issue?
Idk what youre doing but 95% of the time my missles track just fine
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I just wish 7Ps were even half as good as Skyflash, at least those hit something 20% of the itme
my 9Ps hit if they don´t to the goofie thing they do :D sometimes they fly into the orbit sometimes they look for teammates. the hornet is one of the best airframes.
Idk man I find the F-4J UK more reliable, at least the skyflash is reliably trash