F-16ADF is still better than any MIG-29
Yeah in agility and sustained/unsustained turn, everything else the mig29 does better. You can’t expect the mig-29 to do everything better
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what “everything else” are we talking about right now?
The main thing I like about missiles with good HOBS performance is that you can make yourself look less threatening to the enemy by actively avoiding pointing your nose at them so they just try and rush you and you send a fox3 into them while being close to your safe notch position.
They often see that you launch the missile but don’t react immediately because they might think you are shooting at something else, then the missile starts turning into them, and it’s often too late for them to do anything.
If I point my nose at you to launch my aim-120, you are probably already thinking of defending yourself before I even launch.
AIM-120 is better if you want to send those high altitude high speed launches and staying out of trouble generally, but the hit rate will be poor, as expected.
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Acceleration and top speed is noticeable better.
Especially at around 5-6km altitude, it’s even faster than the flankers.
Quite nice for shooting off r-77s
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Or the pseudo stealth, fire&forget&remember later on, R-27ER. Early match is fun to get a kill like that, will work much better than the su-27, not only because of faster climb and speed but also the SMT radar being able to lock the target while you are almost notching
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I prefer doing that with the su-27s as you have more r-27ers to spare.
At the start of the match, climb to 8km altitude, launch a r-27er at 55 km while lofting it, unlock, then relock when it’s around 10km form hitting.
Very good and easy kills and is a super nice strat
That’s about the long and short of it, you cover the air fames weakness with your missiles abilities.
One day I will get over my R-77 self pity party and actually try it again.
You can do that to a lesser degree by cranking, you fly at around 45* to the enemy for 10 secs then “crank” to fly 45* to them the other way, and in one of those you lob of a missile, it’s good for using SARHs you can hold lock while maximizing the energy an enemy missile needs to use to hit you due to the constant course corrections
i agree on top speed, but in acceleration F-16 ADF seems to be better
unless i am misinterpreting this
I haven’t played the 9.19 that much, but the acceleration after 1000kph for the normal 29 fms (9.12/13)are noticeable better than the f-16a’s acceleration.
And since you start at 1000 kph in matches it’s better to start the acceleration test from there
I wonder if the SMT has higher drag values than the 9.13/9.12. Would explain that
A quick top speed test at sea level would do. I’ll try it next time I hop in
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With the giant hump it has? I would be surprised if it didn’t
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One would expect so, but there’s lots of stuff that is incorrectly modeled
Hump doesn’t change frontal dimensions of the aircraft tho.
Although there is a refueling probe, as well as UV-05 CM dispencers but i don’t think that they produce this much drag to make such a difference
a little bit of garbage with a side of dogshit
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Frontal section isn’t the only thing that influences drag.
You can see low drag designs from planes or cars that have elongated rear, like a drop, to make air less turbulent behind the vehicle and reduce drag
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yeah but frontal dimensions are not the be and end all of air flow, you don’t need to just split the air to pass through it, you need to reform it without a backdraft behind you
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That would also result in a top speed decrease as well. Which is true for in-game version of SMT, but export brochures state same top speed for MiG-29 and MiG-29SMT both at sea level and altitude.
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Probably because most planes in WT are limited by thrust vs drag when IRL they are limited by the materials in the engine/airframe or some point where engine/airframe don’t suffer rapid degradation of some sort.
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