yeah sinful pretty much only plays red side sim, well at least for top tier and until recently - he’s now starting his french arc lmao
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God have mercy…
I have been summoned.
Glory to the almighty Flanker!
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it came like 1-2 years after bis or even longer… OG bis had WEP and was untouchable and when 17 came, it was better.
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You shot me down from out of nowhere while I was turning around and my radar didn’t detect anything. Then you got killed by friendly fire lol haha
This idea that because a tech tree was meta once now it needs to suffer and in the future needs to be meta again needs to stop, it’s what makes the game frustrating for a lot of people.
Also:
MLD was good, but when introduced the F-14 flight model and radar were completely overpowered.
Also sparrows were never dramatically inferior to soviet missiles until R-27ER.
MiG-29A (aka September 2023) was the last time USSR was truly meta, it’s actually been quite a long time, especially in simulator mode from what people who play that say.
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And it’s funny because the only thing it offered was 7% more thrust than the F-86F-2… which had way better guns lmao
Someone forgot how sparrows often refused to track, would self-destruct even after 2-3 second break in lock, would steer off to different universe. At the start, they did this AND on top of that reacted too slowly on enemy maneuvers, so pulling to one side and then switching was enough to defeat them.
Someone forgot that sparrows had more speed and far more range. Not to mention F-14 got 6 of them compared to 2 max R-24R. Still I’m not going to reply anymore to this, it’s just de railing the thread and turning into an “my d*ck is longer than yours” kind of argument
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At what range/altitude/speed do people usually fire the R-27ER if they plan to loft it and drop lock until its close to the target? To target AMRAAM carriers specifically
They fire around 6000m or so and just pick target near cluster of jets. It will probably be close enough to someone to relock. This only works in RB because of clustered enemies.
With 27SM air RB: take low fuel (~19min, more than enough for whole match), climb to at least around 7500m without dropping below mach 1, fire at around 60-55km
just fly below 60m and punish anyone who flies above 60m with the r27er, there are situations where doing bvr with the r27er would be acceptable, but most of the time it is better to be aggressive, given the speed the r27er has anyone flying high within a 7km radius will not be able to avoid dying so easily
I already have flown it this way, I’m trying to learn what its capable of.
For what it’s worth I have been doing additional testing on Su-27 flight model…and while the turn rate is buffed at medium speeds and is a welcome change…it’s also still underperforming at low speeds.
It still has the issue where there is too much induced drag at higher AoAs that cause it to slow down and pancake. Just cross referencing Statshark L/D diagrams vs predicted ones shows that drag vs AoA is too high and that Lift vs AoA is also too high.
It’s Oswald Efficiency is stil in the .5s if I recall correctly. There is a study that predicts OE value of around .7…this in and of itself isn’t really any kind of indicator…but also the same study predicts the F-4 Phantom having an OE value of .7 and the wings OE value in WarThunder is .685 which is very close.
That doesn’t mean the current value needs to be increased to .70…rather that the entire flight model is just extremely cobbled together and to make it accurate would have to be substantially changed.
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OE continuously changes with AoA in real life thought… do you have a picture of that study? Because Cd and Cl do not have always the same proportion.
With this I completely agree thought, this FM is just a mess.
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R24R arrives at target fastert sub 10-15km, especially back then. Then someone forgot it had more range IF… IF it even decided to track. For long range shots, like 1 out of 3 would track and 1 out of 4 would track whatz you actually want. I flew plenty of MLD, F14 and F-4J… MLD was most broken out of them all and still best for air RB meta even when F14 came.
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The issues you speak of regarding the AIM-7’s were not true of the AIM-7F. I had no issues with that model whatsoever. I flew the MiG-23M/MLD as well as the F-14 and F-4J quite a bit back then. What you are saying is extremely biased against the AIM-7 for seemingly personal reasons. Quit playing the victim.
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This is the best study I can find that provides simulated lift/drag diagrams for Su-35 type flight model. Lift/Drag diagrams in this study can be cross referenced with lift/drag diagrams from Statshark.
This is the study that people are citing for the OE number for the Flanker being incorrect.
Finely got around to play the su27
Why doesn’t the Datalink of the r27er/r27er show on the radar anymore pretty sure it did before?
Is that a bug or intended?