Well it depends, pure air tech tree grinding?
That thing is a beast for bombing
Grb cas? Meh
@Gunjob I wonder do you know if we can exspect sooner or later working skins for fuel tanks or if this is wasted hope :)
Id be tempted to buy it for Sim as the Tornado IDS is very good in sim and having the buff of being a lower BR and premium is appealing, but no interest in grinding the German tree at the moment. So not going to buy it. But if it was GB or Italy id have bought it by now, especially on sale.
I pre-ordered WTD61 when it was originally introduced.
I think WTD61 is a good plane for pure tree-grinding or adding another Tornado into Tornado-Lover’s collection.
for something else? erm… eh… feels slight rip-off type of premium plane even though this is on a 50% discount XD
There are plenty of Tornado IDS in this game already. right?
I agree. we can have a moment of silence for poor souls with WTD61 who will fly right into the enemy’s mouth and become a tasteful desert for them.
I’ll nudge the report.
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BOZ pods for the F.3 when?
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No BOZ seen here
That’s actually a towed radar decoy pod. It uses the same shell as the BOZ pod, so easy mistake to make.
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Right. Stupid me then
It’s so sad the Tornados impressive ECM capabilities are not modelled in game.
By the time they add them they will likely be superseded by the US and Russian versions
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Considering the Foxhunter can jam the Su-27’s radar I would say we would be good.
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That will never be modelled in game
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Is the tornado F.3 even worth playing anymore at 12.0? My little gem of a jet that i could fly without having to worry about the woes of top tier is now stuck being able to face ARH missiles… is it still possible to have fun or is it even more cooked than my ej kai?
Its fine.
You dont see AMRAAM every match. the recent ARB matches ive done in the F3 (early) have been mostly 11.3/11.7 to 12.3/12.7.
You do really really feel the nerfed BOL Chaff with the reduction in MP and did have a god awful time defending against an Aim-54 the other day. But 2 or 3 kills is fairly consistant most matches.
In Sim it still steam rolls in downtier lobbies.
TLDR: Fix BOL (or add Phimat) and its great. (Fixed FM would be even better)
I need some help learning how to play the F.3, I love the aircraft but the radar sucks badly, it can’t turn, it rips its wings easily, and has horrendously bad missiles (stock). Any tips? I’ve tried climbing, going low, going to the side, going right in, everything
This is for RB
The radar is very good, I only remember ripping wings a couple times and since then that mechanic has been changed so rips aren’t instant any more.
If you’re just using stock IR missiles then there’s not much point having the radar on, it just lets people know you’re coming. Fly round the side and try and go for inattentive or distracted people (this will also work once you’ve unlocked SARH) cause the 9Ls are pretty flare hungry these days in my experience.
You can try BVR but the SuperTEMP is pretty poor at longer ranges compared to the competition, 8-10km jousting works pretty well for it cause it accelerates faster than the competition.
The RWR is also very nice compared to others at the BR, which can be very handy at times.
We no longer have stock AIM-9’s anymore thankfully.
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That was too little too late for me.
I had already lost sanity stock grinding the F.3 late when the update dropped
Just accept as the Tornado you are the NPC you don’t have main character energy.
You aren’t a MiG 29 an F-16 or even an F-14.
Your BVR missile Skyflash is outdone by every other BVR missile at that BR and lower an R-24 will ruin your day.
A brand new kid with an F-4S will lock you up with their HMD before you bring the nose round. and at those ranges you cant dodge the AIM 7F.
Chaff you can carry a metric tonne of chaff. I go heavy bias towards Chaff over Flares.
Dump lots of it when anyone even starts to lock, look at you. You cant defend reactively in the Tornado so you need to be very much aware of your surroundings. Pre notching and Chaffing will keep you alive, unless someone wants you dead.
Your RADAR is good, too good it will in TWS mode lock other missiles…while ignoring the things you want to lock.
Your RWR is also great.
If only it had a working flight model (cough)
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Dogfight ACM exists and SuperTEMP is better at close ranges, but you’d want to kill the F-4 before it comes to that in the first place.
Afaik the only thing left is to rewrite the game code so that the slats and flaps can be deployed separately