Thank you all for taking the time to write such informative comments and aiding in my purchase.
I am a sim player and strictly only so, have had a blast with it so far, even tallied it.
It is an extremely agile bird even compared to Su-27 and J-11, the increased aoa freedom is extreme and is something I am not used to yet but I truly look forward to spending more time with it.
Overall have had so much fun with it flying it alongside Fullbacks and whatnot so cannot wait for more flankers!
Speaking of which, I still don’t understand why the base Su-27 is 13.3 in Sim. In Air RB it’s resolutely “mid” at 13.0, even with the improvements. The SPO-15 is still a huge handicap.
This is a common issue for gaijin, their balance sucks and that’s for almost all BRs with some rare exceptions. The su-27 suffers a bit against planes with fox3s but also why should it face phantoms with skyflash and sparrows…
We need the good old decompression
Btw you guys should try naval EC at some point, the balance there is absolute dogcrap
Because BRs are too packed and it would be hillariously OP in 13.0 bracket as of now. There are like 2 planes capable of dealing with it without significant issues. Maybe 3 if we count Belgian F-16A with 9Ms.
But only 1 out of three (F15A, Gripen, F-16A belgian) is always against it. The remaining two are often on side of flanker.
I dont really count harrier with fox 3s as its pretty damn slow platform for effective employment of them.
I mean, in Sim I find the Harrier super OP at 13.0. FA2 is pretty much the only plane I do well in (don’t have the AV8B+ yet). And there’s the KWS as well now for AMRAAM spam.
And the Yak141, while it only has 4 missiles, is at 12.7 with a significantly better radar and RWR.
I dunno, I really don’t think the base Su-27 would be that much of an issue compared to the other 13.0 planes.
With the Su-27fm buffs is its turn rate accurate now? had a Su-27sm just snap round at high speed and missile me. Now previously you knew the Gripen would have the edge.
No, they just used the charts for the Su-27S, made the Su-27S flight model and then increased mass by 400kg and gave it the new thrust curve for the new engines. It’s the best way to make the SM (or any plane for that matter) outside of getting charts for it, which is often not possible.
The dual pylons are purely fictional, they are not even the ones from the SM3. The latest produced Su-27SM got the upgraded engines even irl instead, just like the latest F-15E got the 229s. Also Rafael kinda got the same treatment missiles wise.
Also, I hate this type of arguments, but if you think that USSR/Russia has gotten the most favouritism in the last year regarding top tier aircraft I don’t know what to say. From the broken FM to the aircraft chosen to get added themselves it was a pretty rough year (especially last 6 months) for the soviet tech tree.
The MiG-29SMT was modelled the same exact way the 27SM is right now, but I don’t think you have anything to complain about it.