Its because Su-27 has worse radar angle than SMT.
SMT has 85 Degree coverage while SU27 only has 60.
Sukhoi Su-27/30/33/35/37 Flanker series & Su-34 Fullback - History, Design, Performance & Dissection
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This update has kinda crushed my spirits. I don’t know if we’ll ever get a flanker that can compete with the F-15E
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Did you really expect something? Forget about it bro, i believe one day they’ll get things right but i doubt it’ll be soon.
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I stopped using flankers and switched to J-10, my life quality already improved 500 percent, i suggest you guys do the same thing, extra missiles arent worth it in my book.
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wanted to start playing China but decided I should finish the French tech tree first… ngl seeing that china got an identical (I never play ground) M2K felt kinda annoying lol, especially considering how painful many French planes are to play lol (at least not much ctrl C ctrl V though)
I feel you lol.
But Trust me J-10 is worth it in the end, its such a beautiful and powerful plane, mine is half spaded but still flies like a dream, unlike flanker…
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Yeah china is certainly the next nation I’m gonna grind, J-10 looks really fun, only problem it has is low CM count
Shouldn’t it have ECM of some sorts? If (or rather then, ECM is important aspect of modern combat aviation after all) it will be added it should improve the CM issue by allowing to take less shaff
It has 72 Large Caliber and drops single pop eveytime, its essentially same as flankers, its quite effective.
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Idk, but most planes since the mid 80s have ECM installed or pods, so J-10 likely has it as well
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Well flanker has 24 CM more and I often run out with it (I tend to spam them a bit too much lol, I think I’m one of very few people that managed to run out of gripen CM lmao )
Lmao, brother what is wrong with you.
Well unlike Flankers it only has one engine so countermeasures are quite effective in that case, i also notch incoming fox 3 missiles a lot in order not to spend too much chaff, helps a lot.
I’m the type of guy that as long as he can expend missiles/ammo/flares to be more sure to get a kill/defeat a missile will use everything lol. It can be counter productive (especially in longer matches) but there were also many times where that extra CM popped or weird shot tried payed off.
CM wise I’ve also got too accustomed to having 200+ cm because I basically only played the F-15C at top tier in the last 3 months.
Yeah that can cause a bad habit, after playing with Gripen nothing seems to be enough for me as well, but you get use to it :D
hi, tests with correct weight seem to point out some inconsistencies with the SEP charts
@Grimtax found and that I posted a month ago, but those inconsistencies vary a lot from different tests and in general it’s very hard to quantify them.
I’m still somewhat sure that the su-27 in game has too high afterburner thrust and too high drag, but I’m afraid unless someone has a CL/CD polar very little can be done to report this (I can’t just submit a report going “su-27 has too much drag pls fix” without more details).
I’m also not sure how big of a difference it would be, biggest problem is still the radar and the fact that other planes have bs FM. Against aircraft with more decently made flight models like the F-15C and F-16C (not As) the Su-27 has a chance when fuel weight is adjusted for same fuel time in afterburner.
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I’ll eventually get the j10 as i am often flying the a5c, however my main target is the j7e which is a dogfight monster… Nowadays i kinda forgot about 4th gen aircraft and went to the 2nd-3rd gen era, imo after the latest BR adjustments (with some exceptions) these vehicles became enjoyable again.
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I grinded my Chinese tree with J7D and let me tell ya, dogfights became rare on 11.0-12.0 as well, most of my kills came from my missiles unless i was fighting against the last person.
I even completely skipped J7 line in order to reach J-10 faster.
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Poor j7e he seems to be kinda sad for being skipped
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Well Delta Canard J-10 was waiting for me, so J7E had no chance in there :D
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Come on, j7e is the entire reason to grind the Chinese tt
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