Because he’s simply good at what he does rsrs, especially in the hands of someone who knows how to use him, he may not be the fastest or most maneuverable, but he also doesn’t forgive hard hits and punishes his opponents’ mistakes.
Sure but the Gripen is also not as fat as the SU30 and has an upgraded engine so its not as slow as the 39C. Im not sure if the kinematics of the EFT can make up for the radar difference especially considering how blind Captor M is
the f15JM is significantly better than the f15c
it is noticeably lighter and has a much better missile load
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the issue is, that if amraam is buffed that will also significantly help its competition and maybe even hurt the f15ge because eft and f15e will both be better platforms that have the buffed missile and will still give the missile significantly better launch conditions
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it does, but JM is noticeably lighter than the f15c (and gets much better missiles)
At this point any time I use that radar it’s a prayer. And this is before the widespread radar issues
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right now its not significantly worse than other mechanical radars
if anything its slightly better and has a slightly higher refresh rate than others
no it wouldnt
its flight model will be significantly worse than the current gripen, with a slightly higher top speed
it has a ~20% higher wingloading and ~3% higher empty thrust to weight than the current gripen, so I dont know how it could possibly preform better
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Gripen E is a baby Eurofighter but with a much better radar. Engine thrust isn’t as insane as the EFT but it should be a noticeable improvement over what’s currently available for JAS39Cs. It has everything you/Sweden mains could want: AESA radar, upgraded engine, 360 degree MAW and RWR, access to literally every NATO air-to-air or air-to-ground weapons (except for French ones, but that’s really down to a lack of a need to, not that it can’t; they’re using French stuff on Su-24s ffs). It is a 4.5 gen jet, same as Rafale and Eurofighter. Would be okay at 14.3 I think, even if for now it got placeholder AIM-9M’s/RB 99 until Meteor/IRIS-T/other missiles get added for it
J10c save us!
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1.18 vs 1.22 thrust to weight ain’t much of a difference
For context eurofighter is 1.5 thrust to weight ish
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AESA and one more amraam. The SU30 performs already better than 2 out of 3 EFTs and thats certainly worse than a Gripen E. I think you guys sleep on the AESA especially with the contrail changes a good radar is so important
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Just yesterday ive spaded swiss hornet and went back to playing EFT.
The radar on Hornet felt significantly better to use. Didnt have to fight it as much as I do with CAPTOR.
yeah f18 radar works pretty well, the really bad ones are the f16s and f15s
Just put the non nerfed engines back on the F-15e, change the radar to the AN/APG-82(V)1 AESA and put that at 14.3BR. Instead they add a useless vehicle. Gaijin is dumb.
Yep and thats what your 120 sees it is already expending more energy to try and correct the crappy returns from the radar.
Non nerfed engines? wut
This and that is the problem.
Buffing 120C and Typhoons Radar invalidates the F-15
its engines were nerfed and it got more drag within a month of being added
was just a little bit faster
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To be fair, a Typhoon with a better radar + throwing away the AIM-120C-5 and instead giving it its Meteor… wouldn’t change much in terms of BVR. Typhoon will still be the best BVR platform by a mile (sorry, 1.61 kilometres)