It’s better than the Hunter F.1 in most ways bar high speed energy retention (but thats because it actually damn turns) and lower speed manoevering, but the hunter doesn’t do that well either
It’s still extremely dead if it even gets anything even suggesting “Slow” though
It Accelerates Faster (Hunter F.1 breaks 500mph on “Denmark” test flight as it passes the Gunboat, Marut beats 500mph about half way between the coast and Gunboat) on min fuel (and this is with being forced to bring Drop tanks and Rockets until i’m off the ground)
Much easier to snap to directions
Max G pull at top deck speed is better (11g v 8g)
Marginally higher Top speed
It’s a direct upgrade pretty much, and its going to be infinitely more meta than the F.1
not even near, its incapable of getting kills quickly, its realm is high speed, energy draining action, which is hard to do with MiG-17s and MiG-17PFs around, and it has no instant pull, with limited AoA so gunshots are harder to work for, it also has poor low speed manoeuvrability and poor energy generation
the Marut has instant Pull, Better energy generation, same guns, and due to the quicker pull it can get kills faster, although still being rather poor at the lower speeds you should never really get to if you play it properly
It also has Rockets you can bring as makeshift flares for the inevitable uptiers into high power AAMs
I don’t know
I think that UK has good jets: Scimitar, Javelin, Hunter F6, Sea Hawk, Sea Venom, Swift F1
Jaguar gr1 not bad on himself br
I still didn’t fly on Lightning, I know that many pilots scold it, but I saw pilots who did really good work on it
Its got buffed in the last year or so, the change to an all flying tail really helped it, that and it getting its 4x missile 4x gun loadout back
Its one of the most fun jets to fly in RB imo and it does surprisingly well, i like it, even if its highly unconventional, and requires thought to not get hit (the damage model is so bad)
I agreed with Master_Teaz , it’s really fun
I started fly on it just in this year, now I get 66 battles and 109 destroyed air targets
Sometimes I did 4, 5 kills in one battle with it
Yeah,
for me I’m 124 kills to 54 deaths in 69 matches,
Last time i played it back in late Jan/ Early Feb i was getting consistent 3/4 kill games in it
Noone expects you to dogfight in it, and it throws people off when you use its extremely low stall speed and great engines.
not to mention the ADENs are a lot better on the Javelin than any other plane in headon due to the size of the Jav making them extremely inaccurate, but still with enough lead downrange to make it like a shotgun, not like you’re short of ammo either
I didn’t notice any major change when the fuel pump nerf came out
and it’s not like the Javelin has pathetic acceleration, quite nice acceleration even,
even without Burner its Engines are still hella powerful, and redlines on mil power
and besides if you shouldn’t be on the deck with it, its got an amasing rate of climb
from Runway to 500mph at sea level (at realistic combat loads)
the Jav (W/ max fuel and all missiles + guns) goes from Runway to 500mph in: 1:11
F-86F-25 (W/13m fuel, No secondaries) takes: 1:28
MiG-15Bis (W/ 13 min fuel, no secondaries) takes: 1:09
Swift F.1 (13m Fuel, no secondaries) takes: 1:18
It’s one of the better 8.3s for acceleration, even post-nerf, it’s rip speed is the issue on the deck, not acceleration
Can we have a poll at the top of the thread asking the community their views on the planes ground forces BR seeing as we cant have an independent thread about the plane, but have to use this thread about the plane coming as an event, even though we have multiple threads in that section about vehicles in the game some of which have had their own event/devblog threads here?
Example found there.
Genuinely do not understand why that thread was locked in all honesty. It was about a very specific issue with the vehicle (and game in general) and as I said, you have multiple threads on vehicles which have devblogs which dont get locked all the time. I made it there to bring in a larger playerbase discussion as sadly, it does feel like this area is ignored more often then not outside of very specific hype vehicles.
I think it should be 8.7 unless the supposed airspawn ends up making it good. All 9.0 planes these days have missiles, afterburners helping with acceleration, or even both. For example g91y, and the 3 US planes that carry 4 missiles and have afterburners.
Sure those planes should be be 9.3 but I don’t this plane would be some monster at 8.7. 8.7 greatly reduces the odds of fighting the harriers/t2 and would make it a much better experience.
Also, why didn’t we get the afterburning version of the plane in game? Wikipedia says there was a variant with it. We’ll probably never get that variant in game now