I can’t think of a single plane that an F-5 beats in a dogfight aside from maybe an F-4 in certain situations.
My F-8U/E beats it
My Su-22MK beats it
Mig-21/J-7 beats it
Even the brick that is AV-8C beats it with viffing.
An F-100D could probably beat it considering i’ve beaten an F-8U in a dogfight, well I was about to but got lobotomized by a Temu F-104.
lol, f5 will always lose a dogfight against a mig21/j7
You mean the mig can just run away and boom/ zoom?
If not plz elaborate as from my experience the MIG loses if it sticks in the fight. Other than the first turn where the mig easily outurns but loses all.its energy doung so. The F5 can just keep energy all day.
mig can run away but except early mig21s that are 9.x they can also keep up in turn fight
Fair.
Thought i was missing something i kept reading 2 turns and more it wins…
Personal experience only the J7E can out dogfight the F5 unless im playing vs bots all the time lol
anything with better nose authority and higher twr below 1000 ias even the su25 can out dogfight the f-5c.
Objectively incorrect.
If you are losing to an Su-25 in an F-5, you are a very bad player.
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Things that can dogfight F-5 (F-5C/F-5E) across the history of war thunder’ s matchmaking (certain aircraft used to see it and now they don’t see it anymore, marked with an Asterisk*). The first list would be the aircraft that could deal with the f-5c or e in an air RB match.
–USSR: MiG19PT (F-5C*, F-5E*) MiG21SMT (F-5C) Su-25 (F-5E) MiG21 Bis (F-5C, F5E), MiG23 (F-5E) MiG23 MLD (F-5C, F-5E) MiG29 (F-5E*) Yak-41 (F-5E*)
–Germany: MiG19S (F-5C*, F-5E*) MiG21MF (F-5C) MiG21 Bis SAU (F-5C) MiG21 Bis Lazur (F-5C, F-5E) MiG23MF (F-5C) MiG23MLA (F-5C, F-5E), MiG29 (F-5E*) F-4F (F-5C, F-5E, but only under certain scenarios that involve vertical scissors) F-5E Swiss (F-5C, slow speed)
–Great Britain: ?
–Japan: ?
–China: J7D (F-5C, F-5E) J7E (F-5C, F-5E) J8B (F-5C)
–Italy: MiG21MF (F-5C) MiG21 Bis (F-5C, F-5E)
–Frace: NF-5A (F-5C, F-5E)
–Sweden: J35D/XS (F-5C, F-5E), J37C (F-5C, F-5E) MiG21 Bis (F-5C, F-5E)
–Israel: Kfir Canard (F-5C), Kfir C7/C2 (F-5E)
All of these planes can counter the f-5c and e in an air RB scenario dogfight. Why? Because the f-5 do not have the energy generation to counter these nuclear reactors with wings, that turn better one circle or sometimes outrate them. Put them in a prolonged dogfight in a 1v1 and the F-5 will slam the living hell out of many of these aircraft, including under certain situations, beasts like the J7E and MiG19PT at the risk of missing your only chance.
I think the F-8U when it was 10.0 beats it out, but that isn’t very relevant to F-5s.
Not exactly. The overall (and ideal) speed difference for a Corsair vs a Zero is much higher than an F-5 compared to anything else around it’s BR.
All of those will usually lose.
Same here.
J-7E is much much better, but the J-7D and J-8B will lose in a dogfight.
It doesn’t need the energy generation since it doesn’t lose any energy to begin with.
Not sure what you mean here, but yes the F-5s will usually beat all of those planes in a dogfight.
Wasn’t me, but I assume someone flagged it because you brought stats up. However I’m not going to do that unless you are specifically insulting me performance.
It’s clear you have no idea what you’re talking about. (It has always been clear)
Will you just stop skirmishing all over the forum and just choose a single topic to discuss about F-5C?
“Bad”
Hope that you are happy now.
No way you’re actually struggling against an F-5 of all planes
My opinions are curated through years of experience on all sides of the planes that I reference. I don’t struggle to beat any singular vehicle in this game because the average player is bad. This ragebaiting you’re doing doesn’t really work. Your stats show you struggle against most things.
Well, you should admit there are some planes which fly even worse than ‘F-5 in your expectation’
Sea Harrier will be an easy example.
Will never gonna beat F-5 in a dogfight
But missiles will also get easily flared thanks to the cold fusion engine of the F-5.
“But it is an attacker”
Historically, it was the air defence fighter of the fleet air arm after the retirement of Ark Royal.
Harriers have extremely gimped flight performance, I agree, however the fast roll makes dodging easy and its VTOL ability means you can easily force an overshoot.
Sure, you can still die to an F-5, but you will have the advantage.
Still, I believe that you got what I meant overall…
Anyone who struggles to fight an F-5 is simply bad at Warthunder. It’s not a good plane, and there’s vehicles that do what it does but better at lower BRs (e.g F-8E)
It seems that you didn’t understand what I meant…
There are jets which are dreadfully overrated and have significantly worse flight characteristics than the F-5C, so you can’t just exaggerate things like that. :/
I don’t think A-7D/E or F-100D(which was faced F-5C before decompression, not anymore)
got beaten and are struggling to fight against F-5C ‘because they have a skill issue.’
I think you are underestimating the dogfight capability of the F-5C, and there is a gap in flight characteristic which can’t filled only with skill.
For example, Maaaaybe well-skilled Harriers can catch F-5Cs off guard and land ADEN fire on them, but generally, F-5C will have a dominant position against Harriers. (either GR.1 in 9.7 or FRS.1 series in 10.7/11.0) thanks to better general flight characteristics.
WDYM, both F-8E and F-5C share the same 10.7BR in ARB.