thats the case of every missile at that BR. Unless we are talking A-10s or SU-25s with IRCCM missiles. But personally I think the AIM-9G is good if not better than 9J. With the 9J you need to get pretty close and pray the dude is not paying attention while the 9G can be launched from far away if you have a fast jet like the canard.
idk, i tried bombing but it literally takes an entire bomb rack for a single base. And then you find yourself surrounded by enemies
Thats just how it is, not like thats unique to the Kfir, AJ and AJS are defenseless if they try to base bomb lol, they are unable to play as strike fighters
so, if that plane is useless as bomber as its 1 base per plane. And useless against jets as 9G suck. How to play that? Idk i feel like i gor robbed
AJS(different jet lol)isn’t using 9G’s the Kfir players ive run into are still getting bases
it brings neither joy nor points for event
Guess its a good thing people font just base bomb for a event and they also do it to grind a TT
The J35XS is awful.
It’s a missile bus that has to constantly maneuver behind an enemy, and it has terrible manuverablity in high speed.
It turns very quickly at 550kph, but fighting at this speed means the missiles have no energy and you will stall. How bad is 550kph? The subsonic attackers like Su-25 fight at a way faster speed.
At supersonic speed it becomes barely better than a Starfighter.
At supersonic speed, even the bulky F-4C out fights it.
If you thought the DEFAs were terrible, now imagine only having one (1) of them.
Because it’s one of the things that it is good at.
Top speed.
The Kfir Canard actually has slower acceleration than the likes of Mig-21BIS. But once it reaches mach 1 it will scream towards them like a rocket because it does not rip at 1350kph (sea level speed)
Bad energy retention, awful guns (usable but inferior to 20mm of f-5), limited missiles, and a godly top speed.
That’s the perfect bomber for ARB. Unlike the F-104S, it can do some turn fighting after the bombing.
Furthermore, the constant mirage f1c IRCCM/mig-23/F-4S SARH spam basically force you to multipath. So bombing is the most viable choice for earning with this jet.
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I will say this if we talk Kfir Canard then we need to talk about it compared to its closest relative in terms of role being the F-35
F-35 is 10.3 id say the Canard could be 10.7 to 11.0 as its better in missiles. Better in Countermeasures, better in speed, better in ammo count and gun placement overall it probably deserves to be 11.0 as its just an effective multirole base bomber…
Yes its a compression issue but it should be close to the F-35 in BR.
IMO its kinda tricky since it slaughters in downtiers but its meager 12 flares goes quickly in an uptier. As almost always, decompression would help here.
You should take into account that the usual Draken you engage will be having a lot less fuel than you, so if one manipulates you into fighting at a more comfortable speed range then you’re in trouble.
Doesn’t matter lmao, any competent player can beat a Draken by playing smart, i had a fight with a Mig 21MF yesterday, i had the energy advantage and caused him to stall out but if i get close ill be slower than he was because he can regain energy faster than i can. We went back and fourth till i was stuck at about 600kph, at that point i had to play more aggressive and dived on to him where i missed my strafe but managed to get my missile on him. It takes any amount of brain power to know how to play better than a Draken because its got one advantage being the first turn, once that turn is done its basically over. You just dont gain speed back fast enough for the average air RB fight, id say its a strong fighter in SIM though.
j35xs at 1.0 lower than F-5E in sim with faster speed and triple the missiles and radar with IFF and IRST is crazy
The Draken airframe is garbage. Believe it or not the F-4C is more maneuverable at supersonic speed.
The R-13 it had was the R-13M not R-13M1. Finland never acquired the latter missiles. Finland also never had the R-60M for the MiG-21 BIS, only the regular R-60. So the MiG-21 BIS loadout is wrong. It should have the R-60 and a corresponding battle rating of 10.7. It would be great to have an unique vehicle instead of copypasta. We did acquire a small number of R-60M missiles in the late 90´s as a Soviet loan payment. No one had asked for these missiles(!), but they were not immediately scrapped either. They arrived after the MiG-21 was retired. The only possible use for them was in the Hawk Mk 51/51A. So we could get a Finnish Hawk with the R-60M. The R-60M missiles were scrapped a few years later after someone wanted to get rid of them and leaked to the press that Finland has depleted uranium ammunition (the warheads in these missiles). It created a small scandal and the missiles were scrapped.
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big ask from gaijin
Better option would be to add the Mig 21 MGBT over the bis imo and add that at 10.7, No radar but newer RWR, CM pods, and compatability with AIM 9E
I´ve sat a few times inside the cockpit of one of those as I used to volunteer at a museum where we had one. I remember that some kid once managed to jerk the control stick loose and I had to re-attach it. It would indeed be a great addition. Specifications of the RWR would likely be pretty difficult to get.
The reconnaissance variant is usually referred to as “tiedusteluversio” (reconnaisance version). It´s abbreviated as MiG-21 BIS/T. The MGBT you used probably comes from MG (abbreviation/registration of any MiG-21 in the FAF) B (BIS) T (tiedustelu = reconnaisance).
If it ever comes to War Thunder I think it should be designated as MiG-21 BIS/T or BIS-T. The AIM-9 it would have carried would have been the AIM-9P3 (All P´s up to 3 are the same in WT) since that was the only variant we ever had before the 9M (And the Hornets in WT have 9L which we never had!).
I mean, it’s not horrid, but little to no flares is hard for noobs buying premiums, so they have to make it easy so they buy more.