Again, lack of speed has a smaller impact than launch altitude. Whilst the micro maps limit how much you can exploit this, an AMRAAM fired from high alt will have much greater range than one fired from low but a lot faster.
If the choice is alt or speed, id always pick alt, with the exception of needing to defend afterwards, then speed is handy to have a bit of surplus.
But again, dont try and out BVR the F-15s and Typhoons at the start of the match and you’ll be fine.
well, the zero is 150kmh slower than the f4u 4b at 5km of altitude
the f5c is 300kmh slower than the j7d at 5km of altitude.
I think you get what I mean.
That ebing said, FA2s use to outrange most other aircraft because their standard cruising alt was 30k ft. A lot of other aircraft tended to favour more like 20k ft and despite being supersonic at launch, would still have less range
Do you have the engine mod unlcoked?
In an earlier screenshot, you did not
At same altitude speed really helps, iirc they could get like 50% more range out of AIM-120 with a high alt launch from an F-22 cruising at 1.5+ than an F-15 cruising at like .9
Evading 9E itself is one thing(Easy),
But, following 20mm M39 combo always was uncomfortable when I flew with 9.3BR jets like F-100D.
or Flying brick like Harrier GR.3 before FM buff.
(of course, when it was 10.3 and was part of American superimacy in that era.)
I need to waste quite much of energy when I evade 9E while flying ‘early supersonics’ and get caught by F-5C later that moment.
Honestly, I am tired of that 9E magical shield theory, so I just want to give 9J/P and send all of F-5A/C up to 11.0. :P
Yeah, same alt vs same alt, of course launch speed helps. But slower but higher will always beat out faster but lower. Which is the factor to perhaps consider with the F-18. Whilst the maps are too small to really make use of that fact. OP sitting at 50m trying to use MP is probably a bigger impact to range than being limited to Mach 1.05+ ish
Yeah, 95% of my kills in the FGA9 is with guns not with 9Es
keep flying straight for not to get caught by guns, then killed by AIM-9E.
or
perform an evasive manoeuvre to evade AIM-9E, then get caught and killed by guns.
I was allergically tired of those unavoidable consequences which F-5C brought up to me when it was 10.3BR, and some of F-5C defenders who cherry-pick only AIM-9E’s shitness while completely ignore F-5C’s flight characteristics.
Sooo… Even though the AIM-9E itself is an awful missile to use at 10.7BR, I don’t think F-5C’s problem is as same as A6M or Vampire did.
Also, bringing F-5C up to defend F/A-18C feels quite bizarre…
Yeah it is, but that’s Mantis for you
