“In Thrust We Trust”??? There is no f way they introduced the Su30sm with THAT sentence. My god Gaijin
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I can’t wait to see people press the cobra button on takeoff!
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now the fly feeling with this plane like a tu4 xD
That’s what a nerf is, regardless if it was a historical fix or not.
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Su-30SM: In Thrust We Trust
Now thats ironic title, bruh. At least RU version of the devblog named better (“Русский Витяз” - “Russian Knight”. It even more fitting considering “Russian knights” acrobatics team does fly them)
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I will just bail out if i see this one spawn in and start obliterating my team and it’s not just one of them it’s probably 3 or 4.
It won’t. EFT, Rafale, and even F-15E is still better
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Better at what exactly?
If only it wasnt locked behind 2 mid planes
US Air Force: Hey that’s my line!
MID? bro.
10-12 missile galore.
R-27ET/ER for the funny.
20 km HMD + R-77 is fun times.
Mid hmm, skill issue alert
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BVR and WVR, WVR, BVR in that order
Only if R-77 could actually reach 20km lol.
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Su-30SM: In Thrust We Trused
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“F-15E better than Su-30SM WVR” RU mains, ladies and gentlemen
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I meant in CAS, it definitely better than any Jet you mentioned.
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Did you even read it properly?
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I’ll be honest, I stopped playing GRB outside of SRE nowadays because of how bad CAS is. So most of my concern is with ARB
This stance just fails to recognise context.
Su-30SM will struggle in long range BVR joust but thats about it. Once that initial joust has ended and the battle becomes short range BVR or even WVR, the balance of power shifts greatly in favour of the Su-30SM over the F-15E and at the moment, the EFT. Only the Rafale I would say is stronger still.
Aim-9Ms are good for ambushes but pretty poor in a dogfight, especially when R-73 is combined with HMD and R-77s are much better than Aim-120s at shorter ranges, especially in a dogfight and the R-77-1s are better thna them still. Combine with the TVC and the AoA limiter switch, you can pull off some crazy moves that could result in a win that would have resulted in a loss in the Su-27.
Also the Su-30SM has a much better radar than the buggy mess in the EFT or the F-15E.
In small map gamemodes like GRB/GSB, the SU-30 is going to be a powerhouse with both the best AGM in the game and a very good radar with a large number of more than competitive ARH missiles for those ranges. If/when I play top tier GSB, I will be very very cautious of the SU-30SM even in the Typhoon.
TLDR, context is important and the SU-30SM will be a very competitive aircraft this coming major update.
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BVR dictates the initial phases of the fight. EFT and F-15E slinging AMRAAMs from space sooner dictates the opposing team going on the defensive and thus poorer position from the start. EFT (Rafale is just no question better) would still be better at WVR because it’s a delta plane and they get good turn rates in general anyways and yes they deserve that. TVC is a gimmick that is more dangerous to use because of how much energy bleed it does and should only be used in emergency (and if your enemy doesn’t capitalize on your low energy state, then they deserve to die)
R-77 with it’s crazy drag while definitely better than the AIM-120 at WVR is still decent enough to pull it’s weight in WVR. Look I get it, R-77-1 is good, definitely an upgrade over the 77.
But this aircraft would be the most mid release of this update.
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