The F-40 is not an A-5
It is a F-30 retrofitted with AIM-9B
That is literally the only difference.
It also has an entirely different wing including but not limited to adding wing slats.
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Ah, my bad.
welp, i prefer to keep my speed and try the overshoot than falling for an energy trap and let him kill me the worst possible way, giving yourself a 5-95% chance to win (5% for you, because sometimes ennemies are dumbs, trying to energy trap with low initial speed)
keeping your speed gives other choices, you can:
extend away and try to reset things out in your choice “form of rate-fight” → 60-40%
dive down to make him go into airflow compression (reducing his ability to aim at you, when he’ll chase you down, due to higher speed) → giving you time, and sometimes he’ll break away because of the ground → 65-35%
face him up when he’ll dive on you (ending up in a head-on after he tried to energy trap you) → 50-50%
Force an overshoot and give the AIM-9B’s to force him to use energy → 70-30%
it’s clearly better to know when to stop a chase, and evaluate strengths of everyone.
Su-7B will never beat an F-86 in a rate fight (1circle)
Su-7B will beat F-86 in energy fight
Su-7B will have a hard time to get guns on if the F-86 know how & when to roll
also, many players with Mach1+/2+ aircrafts tends to see non-mach1+/2+ aircrafts like easy preys because of there speed advantage, but forgets about the rest.
just one, i hate this ugly creature existing
Yes all jets are in a bad BR but moving it down to 8.3 like you implied in a different post is not the answer. Having a Sabre with aim 9B at the same BR as the Sea Hawk, Cougar and other similar aircraft makes even less sense. The A5 is already undertiered AF fighting 262’s lmao.
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TLDR compression for sabres and 2025 player skill issues on early supersonics
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that’s untrue,…
but let’s take a look at both Mig-17 and G.91R4 turn rates, on the deck:
as demonstrated, Mig-17A have a similar instantaneous turn rate, but fail to rate fight the F-86F40
G.91R4 is under both aircraft in every scenarios
the turn radius is in favor F-86F40
at medium altitude (4000m):
F-86F40 beats both instantaneous and Rate Turns
MiG-17 and G.91R4 are somewhat similar in instantaneous (average) but MiG-17 is better than G.91R4 in rate fight
the turn radius is in favor F-86F40
at high altitude (8000m):
F-86F40 beats both in instantaneous turn rates, but can’t rate fight Mig-17 in high altitude, as the F-86F40 engine doesn’t provides as much thrust than MiG-17
G.91R4 is obviously beaten by Mig-17 in rate fights, and only keeps a fair average performance to MiG-17 in instantaneous turn rate
the turn radius is in favor F-86F40
as we all know, most dogfights are done under 6000m in WT, which translates in :
F-86F40 beats all the aircrafts you’ve given us as better than it.
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Yea its mid but not the worst. The AIM-9Bs might be dogshit but that amount of ammo is godsend honestly lol
Mog15bis ish at 8.0 lol
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MiG-15bis is 8.3
the MiG-15 Early is 8.0
check the right side, bis ish is premium
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This should be 8.3 for sure
You aren’t even talking about the same plane
This is a MiG-15bis with slightly more drag that is at 8.0 and is insanely overpowered.
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PrEmIuM ^^ but ok
what do you mean by this
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i wasn’t checking premium BR’s, because they all tends to be lower on purpose.
Not necessarily