Sure
Regardless we don’t know the exact supercruise speed. It’s classified.
Just like it is on many other aircraft.
We do know what SNECMA said and in what conditions.
Just out of curiosity can you show me
You have a link a few posts up.
I don’t see any
March statshark results are here and these are the notable changes:
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Su-30SM2 went from winrates of 51 → 54% while KPS and K/D went up slightly, this is interesting with Su-30SM2 being on both teams but going up in winrates anyway.
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British Eurofighter had the highest increase in KPS (11% higher compared to last month) and K/D (10% higher than last month) out of all aircraft. The British Eurofighter now has a 20% higher K/D than the Rafale defeating the narrative that the Rafale was carrying the British Eurofighter in the first place. The British Eurofighter’s K/D and KPS may continue to trend higher as time goes on and more players spade it.
Thats not the narrative. The narrative is that the british Typhoon is performing better than its brethren, because it faces less Rafales, not because the Rafale actively makes it better.
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this aged well innit
Oh no! The plane that was the 2nd highest performing last month is now the checks notes second highest performing this month.
Note that number of Rafale games far exceeds British Eurofighter games. It’s almost like after a year of the plane being by far the best plane in the game that a bunch of lower skilled players rushed to it and this idea of “French superior player skills” is mostly a myth.
Also note it doesn’t even perform worse on average to the other Eurofighters…only the British one.
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I don’t think what you said goes counter to what I wrote. I didn’t allege that the narrative is that the “Rafale actively makes it better”.
The difference is a wash at the level of games that both the British Eurofighter and the Rafale are at, which are the low hundred thousands. You would have a point if it was something like 700k versus 200k but you’re talking about 260k versus 133k.
Also note how the planes popularity has cratered when compared to last year.
260k vs 133k is a large difference. It’s practically double.
If you add the other Rafale then it’s a combined 382k games vs 133k games for the British Eurofighter. So nearly triple.
It’s the 3rd most played top tier plane behind Su-30 SM2 and German Eurofighter. France for all intents and purposes should be compared to a major nation at top tier.
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Yes it does. You said the narrative is that the Rafale is carrying the british EFT and thats, according to you wrong, because the UK EFT performs better than the Rafale.
However it can still be true that playing together with the Rafale is the main reason for the UK EFTs performance edge over the others since less games against one of if not the best plane in the game is a massive advantage.
Its less about the Rafale carrying and more about the Rafale putting italian and german EFTs more in the dust than british ones.
No one disagrees that not facing the Rafale does help the British Eurofighter over the Italian/German one, but there is disagreement whether it is the sole factor of its performance over the Italian/German Eurofighter. The higher stats of the British Eurofighter over the Rafale defeats the narrative that being on the Rafale’s team is the only sole factor for its dominating performance.
…has half the games than Rafale.
Why exactly? There is no reason why the Rafale would need to perform better than the UK EFT for the theory to be true.
I think you meant to say, “has half the games of the Rafale”, but refer back to this post.
It’s actually not a big difference as some might want to make it out to be. Compare the Rafale M’s stats when it had 200k games last month to now when it has 120k games this month. The difference in statistics for KPS and K/D is negligible. You could compare the difference for other aircraft as well that have differences in overall games for the low hundred thousands. 100k vs 200k has little to no KPS or K/D differences versus say 200k versus 700k.
Indeed, corrected.
So, the UK EF has half the games, 20% better kill ratio and still practically the same (0.1% better) Win rate.
I mean, the writing is on the wall. Rafale is still way overperforming, both in game and in performance.
Yes it does. If the argument is that:
- The Rafale is the sole reason for the British EFT having higher statistical performance
- The Rafale is the best plane in the game still, and better than the British EFT
Then you would see its winrate being higher than the Italian/German one while its K/D and KPS being slightly higher than the Italian/German one but still being lower than the Rafale that is putting everyone else in the dirt. But it is moreso the case here that when the Rafales and British EFT are on the same team, the British EFTs are the ones mopping up games. What makes more sense and explains the statistics better is that the British players know how to use their EFT and provides cover to the Rafale in terms of long-range/BVR performance allowing the Rafale to fulfill its close range role. But it still means that the British EFT performs better.