I’m assuming both aircraft are able to set themselves up for a dogfight before the merge, at least the fast fighter will be able to.
In which case as long as they have a brain they’re not losing.
If they fall for the A-10’s one and only “party” trick (going slow) at try to instantly turnfight it at low speed they lose ofc. The thing is, you have to be pretty dumb to do that
Yeah, I agree. But technically the A-10 can out turn a lot of fighters.
Technically the MiG-29 can outturn the Eurofighter at the right speed.
but yeah I get your point
Probably better to just ask for an A-10C early.
You can just upwards spiral the a10 to death. If you have flares
The A-10A+ is the A-10C early(ish).
The PE - precision enhancement package was the A-10C program
The SADL - situational awareness data link was the A-10A+ program. Added Link16 and some other things.
The SADL was a transitional upgrade for the army national guard while the A-10C phased “spiral” was transitioning A-10A’s to A-10C’s even though the A-10C came before the A-10A+ it wasn’t rolled out on all machines at once.
If they want to stay away from my a10, even better. Allows me to ground pound in peace.
I guess it is a good thing that 99% of fighters are exactly that.
I agree with the A-10 in the right hands; it can actually be scary in a dogfight.
Some supersonic jet players, for whatever reason, still try to commit a full-rate fight or a 2-circle instead of attacking or bleeding the A-10’s speed vertically, completely underestimating the lower straight wing loading factor advantage that the A-10 has over swept-wing and faster aircraft.
Even an F-16 or Su-30 will struggle against a clean load A-10.
One of my favourite things to do is to abuse the AIM-9M with the A-10C’s HMD, or let the enemy jet overshoot and expose itself as it tries to initially fly away. (A notch angle is the worst position against a launched AIM-9M).
Also, pretty funny to launch AGM-65 Mavericks during head-ons when enemy players expect an AIM-9 Sidewinder or a literal wall of 30mm gigantic anti-tank bullets.
the aim9m with hmd is amazing at that br. i will sometimes pretend that i am tabbed out while i get the lock and fire as they think they are getting a free kill if if they move to engage a plane they think is active.
by the time you “instantly” (a few seconds) whip around your gun, your enemy is 4km away from you.
better yet, you’re not getting a gun shot, because you’re dead.
Are they traveling mach 4?
Yeah, r27r and aim7p can be a huge pain to deal with.
mach .9 is more than sufficient to almost immediately exit your gun range, especially after you just had to jink their gun shots.
the A-10 isn’t a fighter, never will be. stop advocating for it.
0.9km range can be difficult to hit, true.
Correct. I have never claimed it was a fighter. I only claimed that it can hold its own in a 1v1. Holding its own does not mean that it can go and chase down fighter and win 1v3s.
i will not be within 2 kilometers of you by the time you get nose-on after jinking.
Probably around 2km if you kept straight, fair.
I still dont see how this would justify keeping the a10 early at 10.3 since it would end up being almost a 1:1 copy of the a10 late.
was never justifying anything, not sure where you get that idea from
I just defaulted to the context of the post.
If you think it getting 4 aim9l would move it to 10.7, then we agree on that. Sorry for the confusion on that part.
I legit don’t think you’ve used this jet.
You whip around, get rounds on them everytime, because they committed to the attack and they either die or run away.
If they are with 1.5km you’ve got one of the best chances to land rounds on them thanks to the amazing gun and amount of ammo.
i’ve killed enough of them to know none of that is true. if you jink and i miss, i’m gone before you retaliate. if you’ve got enough angle to potentially turn onto me? i simply choose the furthest possible angle you have to turn to get a shot on me. you jink right? i go left, have fun turning.
A-10 can’t do anything to counter an enemy fighter doing a vertical spiral.
Nada