It’s the clipped Merlin one, i tend to be cautious with them because in my experience they rip quickly, and the guns are wing mounted. How should I use it? Turn fighting is a death sentence in 5.0 but i doubt it can BnZ because of it’s rip speed.
I try to be more helpful in the Academy section but I’m going to make a small exception: Rank III UK is just a minefield of vehicles you want to avoid playing, the Spitfire XVI, Vc+Vc/trop and especially the Seafire III are catastrophically overtiered, none of them really surpass the performance of the Spitfire F IX enough to justify the BR leap.
The Spit XVI isn’t as bad as those other 3 but it still just doesn’t have enough speed to put pressure on things around this tier while the clipped wings cause you to bleed speed faster than any other Spitfire while… doing anything. The XVI is relegated to friendly 6 cleaning, punishing player that haven’t learned to not turn with a Spitfire (likewise you do not want to turn with A6 or A7Ms) or farming kills that other faster planes have put into ideal positions where you can clean up without bleeding all of your speed and altitude.