Seen people complaining about its drag and engine thrust, are these claims justified? If so is it not realistic for sake of balance or just negligence?
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In what way? Is it over or under performing?
I see people claim it’s underperforming citing things like speed and acceleration. And things like it’s drag
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I’ve seen the same said about the Mig29 and Su27 models, so if that’s true it wouldn’t be very strange
Mirage 4000 are also underperforming in drag, despite her little sister (Mirage 2000) have the lowest drag in all of aircraft in toptier, Mirage 4000 drag sits only behind in MiG-29 despite these 2 aircraft have very different wing configuration.
Currently, J-10 feels like old Mirage 2000 that actually can turn above Mach 1 but also still suffer from high bleeding due to its Delta Wing Configuration, if they fix the drag of J-10, I think it would be good since in before the new FM of Mirage 2000, what makes Mirage 2000 stands out than any other Delta Wing and Top Tier Aircraft, it has the lowest drag.
For now, the only redeeming factor of J-10 is that J-10 absolutely much better alternative than J-11A. But in terms of FM, it is still underperforming especially in its drag. At least Gripen with its underpowered engine still perform much better than J-10 in terms of drag and energy retention.
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Just look in Su-27 forum. I found a video that likely shows that the Flanker in War Thunder is underperforming in energy retention and sustained turn by quite a lot.
Yeah I feel it too but I can’t prove it with data sources, but how the aircraft that literally have the engine of Su-27 is even slower than Su-27 itselves? Theoritically, every Delta Wing should’ve performing much better than swept wing counterpart like F-15, MiG-29, Su-27, etc. in terms of drag.