my apologies mustve been buffed because i originally rember it having a weaker engine
Might be, i bought it couple months ago so it had already better engine.
I think it’s pretty funny that people act like this is the see all be all. The J-7D is a good plane, but the missiles are debatably worse than an Aim-9L, with no All-aspect capabilities and bad flare resistance and not to mention the airframe and the engine aren’t too great. It has a worse engine than the BIS, (sharing the same as the 21S, I believe) and it is a Mig-21 airframe. It doesn’t have good energy retention(while some may argue this is good, I think it hurts it since it usually loses all of its energy while trying to get a missile off.) Either way, my personal belief is that it isn’t very good in the perspective of the bad combination of rear-aspect missiles and bad energy retention to go along with mediocre guns.
i just wish J7E got pl7 too honestly
No it didnt, thats just a lie
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Not arguing for whatever BR changes, but you guys need to know they J-7D has a really bad airframe. On top of poor rate fighting/energy retention, it also isn’t that fast.
plus F5E at same br with crazy performance
Literally on of the best air frames on 10.7 + PL-5B
All you need to do is not turn that much or not turn at all and keep going at mach +1
pl5b is a r60mk with extra range minus flare resistance
PL-5B is a fast as fuck missile that will reach you in less than 3 seconds at 2km that burns so fast you dont even see its flight path, there is a reason J-7E went up after the br changes
id say f5e and f5c are better at same br
just flare once and its gone
All you need to do is go in a strait line to leave behind a F-5
Bis should’ve moved up instead (like 90% of the 11.0 and above planes)
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not really j7d has poor accelration overperforming f5e keeps up weell
Good luck noticing a guy going mach +1 launching a missile at +3.5km from you while you are with another guy
thats just a skill problem being self aware of your surroundings is a big thing in higher brs
id be fine with it if they made it 11.3 and gave a hmd
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Gunfighting is something you will be doing a lot when flares exist. PL-5Bs are excellent missiles, but they are still non IRCCMs and thus vulnerable to flares (if your marker is displayed on their minimap)