I have both america and russia ground out to 14.0. It was orders of magnitude easier to accomplish with america. The AIM-7F is worse than the 27ER but americas other advantages more than make up for that in spades. A huge chunk of that grinding was made easy because of the amazing missile named the AIM-7F, and there is no doubt in my mind that, when forced to choose between an american bird with an american radar with six 7Fs and a russian bird with a russian radar and two 27ERs, I’m picking America every SINGLE day of the week.
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Lmao
I can assure you that F-15A had absolutely nothing to say in BVR against Su-27s. The difference between R-27ER and AIM-7F was worse than the difference between R-60M and AIM-9L. R-60M pulls off the rail better than AIM-9L, while AIM-7F did practically nothing better than R-27ER. It had lower drag, but ER had so much energy, that it didn’t really matter.
TWS update speed didn’t matter, when you had to hard lock the target anyway. TWS was nice to slave Fox 2s without an RWR warning and provided you with more information.
Su-27 took longer to reacquire the target, but it didn’t have to lose its target in the first place. The enemy always had to drop the lock first, since R-27ER was much faster and had longer range. Once the enemy drops the lock his AIM-7F is gone, permanently, no IOG + DL. R-27ER carriers never had to go defensive.
F-16A ADF also gets only 2 AIM-7Fs, while F-16A gets none.
You can’t compare a MiG-29 to an F-15. It’s like comparing a medium tank to a heavy tank.
Also Fox 1 combat is way different than Fox 3 combat. Fox 3s are more about quantity, Fox 1 are more about quality.
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What “mission”?
just going to leave this here
(R27ER is one of the only missiles in game that can do this)
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theres hardly anything amazing about the aim7f. its incredibly simple to dodge
this is why aim7p was such a cool thing, yet nothing in the tech tree has it
F/A-18 late has em on tech tree.
But are you using it on 14.0
Most likely not.
But in honest, gaijin should upgrade every 7M using aircraft to allow use of 7P’s, since it was made to upgrade the 7M’s to 7P’S
gaijin is allergic to us having a semi usable fox 1
Bomb a target, for example. Gameplay isn’t just dogfighting…
You can’t spawn in assuming you will do X thing. You also can’t path directly to a base and be surprised if you get intercepted. If you are trying to path to bases in a stealthier way you will reach them more often than not if your team doesn’t take every base before you.
It’s still your fault if you get shot in a 10km head on tho, and 10km head ons are still avoidable with notching and/or multipathing.
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Ouch, shame on me: just realised I’m discussing in the RB forum, not the vehicle forum…
I play Sim EC exclusively, there you very well can play “a mission” and plan your flight accordingly. I think in RB that’s a whole different story, with the whole fight crammed into one massive furball, almost. Which is one of the reasons I gave up on it.
Sorry for piping in where not relevant.
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exceptional missile at work right here
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