On one hand, yes it is.
On the other hand, and this is due to the caveat, no it isn’t.
BR decompression is necessary from 9.0-14.0 for air and ground. Air especially needs to go up to 15.0 or 16.0BR for the higher BR aircraft to be spaced out evenly enough so they can fight comfortably and competitively without anyone getting completely shafted out of being able to contribute.
The ER was definitely the best within ~10km, but things were more contested in the ~20-15km range since russian birds had 10km ACM range at the time where a lot of NATO options had 20km ACM range. So they would point and click on your nametag to shoot first while the russian player either was waiting to get within 10km, praying that the IRST would be able to acquire a lock and then successfully transfer it to the radar, or fumbling about with BVR targeting with radar sets with slow scan rates and absence of variable scan patterns that would result in the TWS contact on the radar being as much as 8 seconds out of date. Russia hands down had the best SARH but NATO mains would consistently ignore the heaping pile of advantages that they had on their side of the fence since they just took things like having reliable radar for granted. The Yak 141 and 29SMT had better radars than the Su-27/Su-27SM/Mig-29, but they had their own pile of warts holding them back such as the SMT’s abysmal flight model and the 141’s slow top speed and laughably small payload. Another thing NATO largely took for granted was the quality of their RWRs compared to the SPO-15.
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I see now, you can use this loadout if you have it saved… lucky me I guess
Why can u still keep this？Mine preset like this has been deprived. The only difference is that I didn’t carry drop tanks.
dont know
An F-14, as much as I love it, is not gonna win in a flat scissors fight. The F-14 has a large wingspan and rolls slowly. Meanwhile the MiG-29 is the F-16A of the Russian tech tree.
Except they fly nothing alike and the mig29 gets scraped by most jets at its BR in a dogfight? no american teen jet loses to it.
I forgot to mention I was absolutely <5 mins of fuel left near my airfield (but not enough for AAA missiles to start firing.) I guess he messed up his line.
The MiG-29 has an astonishing thrust-to-weight ratio owing to it’s large engines and smaller size, looping was the right thing to do, especially against the F-14.
Last time I was dogfighting with my friend, he’d consistently pull 16Gs on merge. If you can’t abuse turning like a Rafale then idk.
You have to be a little bit of uhh, let’s just say, a terrible pilot, to die to somebody who’s tactic is to do a cobra in the air and lose 1000kph of their speed. The 29 has decent (read: decent, not even close to the best in gen4s, even gen4s that are near it in BR at 12.7) AOA ability but to fully utilize this is like fully utilizing your AoA in a MiG-21. You will get 1 good turn off then die immediately if you don’t secure the kill. This is a bad FM overall to rely on.
You dogfighting your friend isn’t as strong of a defense as you think btw
It is wrong in the first place to try out pulling a missile, funny enough, IDK what it is, could be AMRAAM for all I know, his radar lock never popped up. Also it does have the best kinetics so notching even a second late could get u killed.
It is technically feasible, just like all those other ones, like every PL5B carrier that never used it.
you can outpull aim54 tho and fakour as well, thats the funny part
Yeah this. F-14A gets 9L and stays 12.7, F-14B gets 9M and stays 13.0 and the IRIAF gets R-73 and moves to 13.3. (Yeah I enjoy watching IRIAF one tricks cry, what gave it away?)
The F-14A was shown with AIM-9L in the danger zone teaser, I get why it didn’t get them at the 9Ls at the time, but now it’s perfectly fine to add them.
thats not necessary, it is not better than the f14b even with r73, and would be downright bad at 13.3
No, no change for the other two cause they do fine.
Well I have never done it, it might look like u’ve out pulled it but it might just be chaff and notch. The real pain is with SPO15 where I don’t know a missile is coming my way cause he is too far up, not that I can’t dodge one.
yeah lets downtier the f14 and fuck over the entire 12.0 BR range woowee, as if the mirage F1 wasnt suffering enough…
I only want them to move it to 13.3 because I like IRIAF one trick tears.
Hell they could just announce the change and revert it last minute, the crying about it is all I’m interested in.
The F-14B is definitely not fine though. The F-15A is straight up better at the same BR.
lol when has BR compression ever stopped gaijin? Look at the US f8U (WITH COUNTERMEASURES) while the french (FLARELESS) one still sits at 10.0 :*)