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
Rookie mistake, stat cards tells you nothing useful, use StatShark - See All Player, Missile, and Vehicle Statistics for that, for what i can see it accelerates faster, but thats about it, worse energy retention, worse AoA, worse rate, no missiles…
Just wondering, why do I need to play this when I can utilise Scimitar in 8.7BR? which can also mount four 1000lb bombs and four ADEN?
But Scimitar can also utilise guided weaponry like Bullpup or AIM-9B :P
So, Gaijin, are you guys planning to give India to the British, but without the juiciest parts?
Are we not allowed to have ANY rank 5~6 planes without getting over-BRed?
I think that it’ll be a bit weak in ground RB, but to me it seems like it will be excellent in air RB. It has a great climbrate and top speed for a subsonic, and decent manoeuvrability too.
The only downside I’ve seen is a lack of A2A missiles, and poor energy retention, but people just refuse to admit that it might be kinda good.
Im actually glad it comes without some missiles like 9Bs as it can sit at 9.0 with current matchmaker, which should allow it to play without ever meeting all-aspects if i recal correctly (not at PC right now so i cant check)
Listen. this thing is a Swift F.1 with ground ordinance. I don’t care that it outturns a hunter, that’s every plane at that br. It gets no ccip and there is nothing that says it should be 9.0.
Su-25 gets R-60M. But at 9.0 it will face the Draken, mirage III and 5F, F-1, T2 and other planes with aim-9Js and R-60s.