Wyvern’s engine is the most fragile in the game.
Which led to its dropping BRs to begin with.
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There is that too. Likes cooking itself right?
More that 1 7.7mm round reduces its power by up to half.
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Started at 5.0, and it was fine there, idk how it ended up at 4.3 to begin with.
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I just assumed “stats from matches” with all the players who bomb/go for GTs before, making it safe making them perform badly overall.
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Being easy prey for every fighter in its BR range. Additionally after being moved 7.3 everyone seemed to forget the Su-11 exists.
… Wait, people are losing dogfights against Wyverns?
It’s a brick that can’t turn.
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It’s a brick that if it does turn it becomes exponentially easier to kill. I love using the Wyvern for boom and zoom, but goodness if you turn in it you signed your own death warrant.
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Imho the OP wrote energy fights, imho a difference.
On top of that - every few hundred matches you meet pilots in Air RB which are using the Wyverns with a joystick - way less energy losses compared to the average mouse aim user results in way better (actually surprising) agility.
Check old wt forum - you find “confessions” of Wyvern users confirming that…
https://old-forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/543513-what-is-wyvern-doing-at-40/&do=findComment&comment=9488458
But most of their users are not aware of this and have no clue about ACM and energy management, so from a general perspective you are right.
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I guess I know what to buy if I decide to switch tech trees.
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The Wyvern if flown properly can be devastating, but you can’t say that you have difficulty killing it with any fighter, because the Wyvern will lose all dogfights against them.
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With regards to AirRB - not true as not relevant, as the key for a proper usage is exactly to avoid any slow combat and to use superior speed in the first place. You won’t start a dogfight / turnfight with an A6M whilst flying a P-47, but the P-47 can dictate the fight due to its way superior speed.
So an experienced pilot can remain untouchable by disengaging at will - whilst the performance advantage of speed and energy retention in a straight line allow him to pick his fights.
It became a lot easier to kill them since October 2023 when they removed aaa on the forward airfields, but the problems with them early game are still there.
I linked above a quote from 2022 - i had to break off / pull my airbrake as i attacked a Wyvern at 9.800 meters - as he managed to outdive me, and my rip speed is between 870-880 TAS at this alt…(i flew an SM 92).
I mean even if you don’t trust me - this entire thread from 2021 - 2022 describes in detail the challenges whilst flying and/or fighting them - from the perspective of highly experienced (and successful) fighter pilots:
I don’t care which BR they give the Wyvern, the problem is that even 4.7/5.0 there are many new players who get killed by the Wyvern, because even with the FW190 F8 with two 30mm cannons and with inferior performance to the Wyvern I happen to get 3/4 kills, and the same thing goes when I fly with the Do 335.
So they move it down to where nothing can catch it?
The only planes I’ve seen Wyvern’s outrun is Zero’s. Literally everything else can easily catch them.
That is demonstratively untrue
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The Wyvern can do almost 650kph in level flight at sea level (and can do the same up to 3,000m)
for reference for Bf 109K-4 can only do 603@SL and the Fw 190D-9: 621@SL
it really shouldn’t be below 5.0, it takes a substantial energy advantage + dive for most fighters this BR to catch a Wyvern, it’s very unserious.
edit: OP is also drunk, the Wyvern isn’t even close to the performance of the A2D-1
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Imho your reply has nothing to do with what i wrote.
You claimed that a Wyvern will lose any dogfight - and i replied this makes no sense as any competent pilot will avoid a dogfight at any cost.
So your answer claiming that you have no problem with getting kills in it (or with other strike aircraft) has nothing to do with dogfights - all of these aircraft can get kills with forced headons supported by air spawn - or just by 3rd party kills - but this is not a dogfight in the actual meaning.
Wyvern easily holds 600kph+ IAS in level flight.
There is literally nothing at 4.0 and almost nothing at 5.0 that can keep up with that
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Maybe I didn’t explain well, the Wyvern gets kills on distracted or inexperienced enemy planes, and has only one way to survive which is to run away, if the enemies make the mistake of chasing it on the plain it’s not the Wyvern’s fault.
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