I like F-5 aircraft, its agile fighter and i like using it but is TCU version still good since it placed in 13.0 where enemy aircraft definitely way more manuverable/agile. Also the missile armament is only 4 missile, havent tried derby but im sure its definitely good but i think the number of missile for me at that br is not enough. Should I grind it?
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derby and darter are clones and are completely useless. The only airframe it was good on was event plane kfir c.10 because it was 13.0 (now 13.3) with 4x derby (not 2x) and you could go 1800kph at start of match, which is impossible in the TCU junker.
It’s a plane that’s severely hampered by the lack of ordnance. Even aircraft .3 BR higher are a nightmare to fight as you run out of missiles practically instantly ( god forbid you see uptiers to 14.0, you will get mauled).
If you do decide to pick it up ( no reason to, trust me), you’ll have to play it at the sidelines, isolating opponents. Any main line engagements will get you wrecked.
If the MM decompresses it might be worth picking up but I highly doubt that’ll ever happen.
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Your main way of getting kills will still be your guns and considering you lose one, it isn’t great
Not a single iteration of the F-5 past 11.0 is viable. It’s the same struggle but harder. I don’t know about the derby, but no IRCCM missiles at a BR where everyone carries six plus of them is… eh.
Squadron F5 11.3 with pythons is great?
F5 13.0 not so much. Especially now derbys have fallen even more behind
Hopefully the rest of the fox 3 get buffed soon as its made various jets useless
that’s the FCU and it’s 11.3 not 13.0 like the THCU. The ThCU is garbo just like the SCU which has only two pythons and two aim9ls instead of four missiles (2x aim9p4 with some flare resistance in rear aspect and python 3 which are overglorified r60m’s that happen to almost never pull beyond 25g’s. Still the F-5 FCU is in a tough spot. Once the missiles are depleted it’s just a gunfighter in a place where everyone is still carrying four missiles.