it isnt tho,
if you have a competent enemy (which you have in a 1v1 custom) he is just going to fly circles around you while you are desperatly trying to keep the little speed you have
tbh the su-30 would be beter at dogfighting at most situations without tvc
tvc is only useful when it comes down to a close knife fight
should be as soon as the datamines go online
That’s what happens when you put more weight, a worse engine and canards in the same plane. Many modern 4th gen variants perform worse than their 80s versions in bfm because today they prefer to sacrifice maneuverability for bvr performance.
What i’m saying is that “it is what it is”, It’ll be hard to see a modern 4th gen fighter performing better or even equally to their grandpa. Ingame the only hope for “dogfight enthusiasts” is the su-35 and even so i have my doubts cuz that thing weighs 19 tons compared to 16 of the su-27, i don’t know if the engines will be enough to make up for the weight increase.
It’s also important to note that MANY aircraft are overperforming (hello f16s that can pull 1 trillion AOA), their FMs being fixed matters much more if we want to have a balanced BFM gameplay, but people tried to get gaijin to do that for more than a year after Apex Predators update and they did nothing, only shameful excuses for not fixing their game.
They could always give it AL-41
It depends.
In real life, TVC is useful for when both fighters are slow and stuck in a prolonged dogfight, and they simply do not have the position to fire off an Fox 2. In that case you have the freedom to point the nose in a way that a non-TVC fighter simply cannot and get that firing opportunity while the opponent is struggling to get behind you.
Unfortunately, with how WT air RB matches go there is almost always no prolonged dogfighting since you will get third-partied and shot down either by an friendly (mistake) or another enemy you were not aware of.
TVC also makes much more sense in a missile dogfight (usually one-circle nose-to-nose as both fighters attempt to jam the weapon engagement zone) than a guns-only dogfight (usually two-circle and a focus on achieving maximum turn rate for the longest amount of time).
Sure, everyone wants it nerfed anyways
The sustained rates on the EF-2000/Rafale are science fiction. Took them longer than a year to bring the Gripen down to from the best rate fighter to where it is now, and immediately after doing that they add the EF and the Rafale rating 1-2 dgs better than the F-16. Wild shit. And yeah the F-16 is definitely still pulling too much AoA.
But this is the Flanker thread. All we can do is be honest about the Su-30SM’s woeful BFM profile.
They can nerf arh numbers, tvc is more disadvantages than advantages, it climbs worse than a 27SM cause it’s heavier and has worse engine
In fact let’s just nerf it to hell and give it N001, that would make you happy no?
funny thing is that the su-30 should have a twr over 1
funny thing is that the su-30 should be one of the best if not the best BFM fighter in the game
the su-35 should be alot better because of the AL-41
yeah its still sad that the flanker fm is still completly wrong even after the buff
because they didnt change it to the real life flanker fm but just decreased the drag and called it a day
IK but ppl are complaining exactly because of 1v1s, for me these are not relevant for the current meta but i understand that some want to have fun in custom matches, for that it would be interesting to fix the western overperforming aircraft.
That said i believe the su-30sm performance is more than enough to compete in current air rb meta…
Cant take this approach seriously.
Btw anyone noticed it’s harder to do a kulbit now with 30% fuel with empty racks?
I didn’t have that much difficulty in .31 iirc
the problem the sim comunity has rn is, that the su30 isnt contolable in full real anymore at slow speeds, it isnt really the flight performance itself but the handling
And that’s the issue, let me revive this old thread made by our good old comrade Giovanex Many top tier aircraft are overperforming in energy retention
We can complain all we want about russian jets performing worse, it’s not the russian jets that are underperforming but the western ones that are overperforming…
Nor can I say the same to you. It’s mid, always be mid, EFT and F-15E will still be dominant.
well where tf is my TWR of 1 in the su-30 then
below min fuel and with no ordnance, i’m afraid
yeah they probably fly with 15% fuel on those airshows and with all their avionics removed, right?
right?
he is perhaps the only one who could fix/improve the su30sm fm D:
Are you high