The F-5C is no longer good

Not off the top of my head. But iirc, it uses soviet sources instead of the actual flight manuals and the soviet over estimate it quite a bit

@Mig_23M has attempted to report it before:

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/hIzLAh45I9sD
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/GUQJsZHuSJIe

and Matrix has reported it too

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/hqLuX2tQIZDa

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As already stated, sounds like a design flaw

And I do no disagree with such.

A decent buff yes, but very much so not worth a full .3 BR difference, this would be like saying smoke launchers on a version of a tank are enough to increase it’s BR.

Does not solve the existing problem in the slightest.

Oh they very much so can, but like the NF-5A, such is not good for business.

Me personally? No. I think where it is is fine, although I would like them to decompress more from 10.0 upwards

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Imo, Its 10.0 and below that is in more desperate need of a decompression than 10.0 up that did get a partial decompression last year

That too yeah, 8.0 ±1.0 its too compressed thanks to Sabres and MiG-15s going down, but from 10.0 upwards, you start to have 35Gs missiles vs flareless planes, and dont get me started on 12.7-14.0 compression

Though Id argue the better way to resolve that is to move the 9.7 and 10.0 flared aircraft up (relatively speaking) so they were a seperate BR to the 9.7/10.0 aircraft without. Meaning that in a full downtier, something like the A-10A and Su-25 would only face either supersonics without flares or subsonics with flares. Would help a lot.

You have too many aircraft with radically different performance at 9.3 and 9.7 for the status quo to remain.

Let alone the mess that is 8.0-9.0 at the moment

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I don’t know much about props but anything from 7.0 upwards is horrible and the only way to fix this is not only by increasing the maximum BR but also by lowering up and downtiers to 0.7 to make it more fair in most situstions.
Things like the F-104 shouldn’t be fighting shit that is nowhere near supersonic, flareless aircraft eating 30g missiles, etc. Even the poor Me 262 has to fight Sabres and MiG 15 all day long, it’s really sad comparing the state of the game now vs a couple years ago.
I do believe that adding hard stops to uptiers and downtiers at certain BRs to make artificial “top tiers” to preserve matchmaking would be a great addition, where Sabres, MiG 15-17, Hunters and the like can fight each other, where early supersonic like F4 and MiG 21 can fight each other, and also to separate Fox 3 from the rest.

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outdoes them in what? losing speed? losing to jaguars in an energyfight?
the damned thing has more drag than a flatspinning a10

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But… but… but… the J35D has 30mm Gun whereas the F-5C only has a 20mm gun and the J35D has 4x Aim9Js… its clearly better than the F-5C. Its not like flares are all that helpful or anything.

:P

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my guy the f-5c bleeds as much speed if not more than the j35d and will take a whole ass minute to reach a speed at which it can at least dodge an aim9b. The J35D does outdogfight the f-5c, it is also much faster and does not bleed speed above 900kmh of IAS while turning tighter, it literally equals the J7E in a 1v1. It’s funny that yall can’t stop parroting “the f-5c is goated in 1v1” which is not but most of you don’t have any idea on how to dogfight either.

and this is what i mean by echo chamber. Reminder that MiG19 used to face F-4E and MiG21SMT when these two were just 10.7 and people still thought mig19 was cracked even despite facing r60s and aim9js.

i don’t want the f-5c to go down in i’ts current state, even if it has the worst armament and worst performance of any 10.7 fighter.

I want the J7E and J7D to go up.

completely and factually untrue, not that you even know anything about the draken
just stop pulling things out of your ass

the f5 doesn’t need to dodge missiles because it has something very crucial that the j35d lacks…

lol

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J-7E is currently in 11.3BR and obviously has a higher BR than both J-7D and F-5C.
If it goes higher than now, maybe it will be going to share the same BR along with MiG-23ML, or even F-4S.

Well, about J-7D, sure, why not.
Take AIM-9J of yours for your F-5C and join the way to 11.0BR while shaking hand with J-7D.

j7d absolutely MUST go up, j7e though…
i can see it go to 12.0, but only if it gets pl8
maybe it could become a funny irccm fighter at like 13.0 if it gets pl8b

completely and factually untrue, not that you even know anything about the draken
just stop pulling things out of your ass

I know it because i tested it multiple times (and tested it right now with wtrti) because I knew you were going to come crying about it.

At 900 IAS the f-5c does 25 deg/sec, and the draken does 28 deg/sec.
At 1000 ias the f-5c does 24 and the draken sustains 21 in a WIDER turn radius.

Meanwhile the F-5C at 600 IAS barely does 23deg at 660 ias with 422m turn radius, and the draken does 373 turn radius at 27 deg per second.



Summed up: A draken won’t rate fight an f-5c at super high speed, it will simply not engage. However at slow speed the draken will always have the upper hand.

Both Draken and F-5 have similar mach 0.99 speed retention. The draken has better acceleration across all airspeeds. The F-5C will rate better at 900 IAS but the draken yet again has all the privileges not to engage, while the f-5c has no privilege in this.

the f5 doesn’t need to dodge missiles because it has something very crucial that the j35d lacks…

So? J35D has no flares, mig19 has no flares and it had to deal with aim9j’s and r60s for a whole year before it got moved down to 9.3, stop victimizing yourself. The Hunter F6 also had no flares, the f-105 has no flares either, the f-1 has no flares either and all of those pale in comparison with the draken’s flight performance. F-5 having flares won’t stop it from doing the only thing it can: dogfighting. Third party it, if i can kill f-5c’s with aim9e’s while i’m arriving at the furball, so can you with better aim9j’s.

lol

to equal means to tie up, not that it has the same performance. Dora D9 and sea fury are equal in a duel, not because they perform the same. Sea Fury turns tighter and rolls better, dora has better flaps and more engine power.

About j35 v f5c, f-5c rating better means nothing, the su27sm has 32deg/second of turn rate at 770 IAS but a turn radius of 400m, whereas even if the f-18 has just 27deg/sec of turn rate it still has a 300m turn radius. It is of course going to gun down the su27 at some point.

I think this part is a needless appendage.

why did you bring up dodging aim9’s in the first place? i said the whole thing about flares not because im crying about the draken having none, but because the f5 doesn’t need to care about kinematically dodging ir missiles bc it has flares and a very cold heat signature

and the j35 has no chance at beating the j7e fair and square
i will do the tests myself once i get home, yours are wrong i believe
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I don’t think that he tested sustained Turn rate but rather instantaneous turn rate

what did you even test? instantaneous turnrate? sustained? i didnt even think about what you were “testing” when i saw your post

if you were really testing instantaneous turnrate… well, i dont even understand your point then, instant turns dont really win 1v1’s

ive checked out sustained turn speed at around 600 IAS and around 900 IAS
the results are:
f-5a has a sustained rate of about 17-18 deg/s at 900 IAS and 16-17 at 600 IAS


j35d has a sustained rate of about 13-14 deg/s at 900 IAS and about the same at 600 IAS


oh yeah thats a good copout, just say that the planes biggest advantage (its incredible horizontal energy retention) is worthless!
what even has a meaning in dogfights then?

it will get slapped like a baby by an f5 that can actually keep speed while turning

btw remember what you were responding to:
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you didnt even try responding to that, you just posted instant turn performance???
just so you know, the draken will lose 2 times more energy in that instant turn
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(yes i know that f5 gained a bit of altitude, i accidentally pitched up a bit)
arguing with you is pretty much pointless, cus you constantly tell bullshit and dont back it up
i will now post the funniest thing youve said recently:

^this one is a classic at this point

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