They can dogfight at high speeds far beyond what the Mig29 is capable. Even if flown with perfect skill, no mistake. Only the G can.
They have crap ton more flares carried internally, especially the D.
Their roll and pitch at low speed is superior to the Fulcrum (big issue right there for me).
The Mig-29 is far more unforgiving than the F-16C when a mistake is made. That is historical. But players can fly a perfect match and can still get out turned and gunned by the C. Its just the way it is currently. Unless someone can just make the claim. The F-16C is just a superior aircraft over any fulcrum.
The newer ones are thousands of pounds heavier than the SMT and barely have a 7% thrust increase for the poorly modelled RD-33s?
Man, if only we had the power to assign a button to control our aoa just like the f14 and mig23 can control their wings… Well, we have the full controls but it’s not the same thing yk?
but the 29 is not inferior in performance compared to the f16c and D, only if you are talking specifically about the mig29 SMT, in which case I don’t know what can be done, the smt is a heavy boy, even tho i dont fully understand why the smt is bad like that cause the f14s are 10 ton heaveir than the 29s and can perform even better in 1 circle than the current 29s, so idk…
in a slow speed dogfight, the C and D dominate the fulcrum and SMT. In a high speed dogfight the C & D dominate the fulcrum and SMT. Its only saving grace is the HMS and R73.
In a prolonged dogfight the C wins over the G. Which has the best chance but lacks stamina due to poor thrust to weight modelling.
Even Gio confirmed that thrust to weight does not increase when fuel is burned.
Its far worse than it should be imo.
You can carry the external fuel tank and 20 min internal fuel and fly better than a 30 min internal fuel tank. the SMT model is all screwed up and the Series 3 engines don’t even provide any fuel economy actually worse.
yeah but it seems weird,
I don’t completely understand how the f14 which weighs 19,000kg clean (21,800kg with min fuel) can have a better performance in 1 circle than the mig29 9.12 which weighs 10,600kg clean (11,000kg with min fuel) even if you put the mig29SMT to compare that 11,600kg clean (13,081kg with min fuel), I guess I just don’t know much about planes lol, it doesn’t make much sense to me, mig29smt suffered a lot due to the increase in weight but the f14 flies like it was made of paper
EXACTLY because the F-14B has better thrust to weight characteristics modelled.
The F-14 is an aerodynamic integral design like the fulcrum. However, it only generates 30% of lift in its wings as opposed to the Fulcrum which generates 60%.
The F-14 was more designed with supersonic maneuverability in mind. (Only jet in the entire world capable of pulling 7gs at Mach 2)
me too, that’s why I haven’t been playing for a month now maybe i played some custom battles to try some duels but i was getting annoyed when ppl go there with the blk10 ufo and just hold S and beat you xD
lol it’s a fun jet, only because it has high off boresight capability which is hilariously fun to kill with when it does connect.
Perhaps it’s a reason they are reluctant to buff it and why the R73 is “acting weird lately.”
We unfortunately cannot have it all. Though my motto has always been “you put the jet in game GJ, you put the whole jet in the game.”
No bro, I can’t condone this. Play it. Wear it with pride so you can be among the few that did not swear by the gods they would not play the jet until GJ did something…
Because I learned long ago in the game that if you do this. By the time they do buff the jet you will be so jaded you won’t ever play it again anyway.