Just curious, how are they modelled wrong, and what could be changed to make them better?
Flares being too effective, F-5’s in general are like ridiculously cold aircraft.
I don’t think the British flight models were ever going to be competitive post-korean war/early cold war era, however it doesn’t help that the weapons sets that were relied upon are not effective enough in-game.
Things like F-5s (and many others) can drop like 1 flare (after you can only lock them from like 600 metres) and defeat a 9L whilst in full burner, IRL you had to drop burner, reduce engine thrust turn and flare several times and it was not possible to defeat them within about a 30 degree rear aspect radius if you had an afterburner on.
Again though, I don’t think Harriers, tornado’s, hardwing phantoms, jags etc were ever going to be good fighters, just ‘good enough’.
Probably easier to just link this
But mostly heat sig. Harriers should be able to deny rear aspect locks just via a VIFF and flares barely work.
Also 9Ls are way too easy to defeat usually.
Even things like the sooty exhaust from the back of all harriers is technically wrong. Big boost for those at 9.7 where VID is most common.
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