MiG29s have been given more control authority after the alpha strike patch. I remember being able to maim them on MiG19S rating at 900 IAS but now they rate along the ADF f16 and can definitely turn inside it but only vertically because they still bleed a lot more than the falcons. Go horizontal and the falcon will start getting the mig29 after it finishes the first circle of the flat ratefight.
Saying aircraft performance doesn’t matter in top tier has never been the case and gets parroted by mediocre players who’s depth of understanding is “Shoot missile at bad guy, get kill, then die to another bad guy”
well uh that’s literally the same argument that mig21 smt players were giving when the f-4e came out lol. The Gripen shits on everyone if it engages, but it still has the chances of getting third partied from far away with a r27er or a sparrow guided by a properly working radar.
In the Gripen it really is not hard to notch a 27ER or deny a good irccm missile shot. Its weapons are good but what makes it far and away the best top tier is the performance.
Yes it’s easy to deal with r27er’s in the gripen, as easy as any other plane in game because the only true way to defeat the r27er is to fly barely 1-5m above the sea (when missile impacts the sea there won’t be splash damage) and hide under a mountain.
You can notch r27er literally perfectly, constantly and from far away since unlike any other non soviet missile in game, if the radar relocks on you it will retrack and strike. R27R and R24R share this characteristic too.
You still didn’t know why the gripen is actually dangerous: because it has AIM9M’S which are extremely hard to flare once they came off rail, so once again my point still stands. The F-16A block 10 has the same flight model and guess why is it so irrelevant? Because the aim9l’s are worthless missiles that are slow, visible and easy to flare from most aspects even from up close. If you gave aim9l’s to the gripen it would be as irrelevant as the block 10, even more since the Mauser Bordkanone 27 is the worst 30mm in game currently.
Havent seen any patchnotes related to this.
I would need to test this before continuing further with this point.
Nevertheless it changes nothing about the other aforementioned issues of lack of flares, lack of modern RWR and lack of modern radar.
Another ghidorah classic.
The SU27 sure, it could be called 13.0 material , since it has a very neat missile load, but thats about where the good parts end.
The F15 should not be 12.3 , but it is , because one of the factors gaijin balances planes around is player performance. As such, if you have the bad luck of getting an Air RB game at exactly 12.0 , youll likely meet an F15, hell ive even seen some in 11.3/11.7 matches.
The TA152 is a formidable plane, both TA’s are really scary to fight, since most will make use of their high alt performance to decimate you, maybe it isnt 6.7 worthy but its still very scary.
Cant comment on the J7W1, never flew/seen one of those in-game.
The Ta152C3 is not formidable at all