What's your favorite starting jet for US (or any other nation if you don't have US researched)

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Can you share more information on why you like the F3D, what can it do?

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It has good bomb load, good enough speed, not bad in a fight, good armament, easy to fly in sim, not bad radar

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Boo F80 for life

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I did not like playing that

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FR, can relate

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Its the best imo starting jet, not much can outturn you.

For ground F3D all the way though

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Yeah as a pure ARB fighter it’s good but I enjoyed the F3D more in ground and sim

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F3D 20mm are great for LT shredding

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Yeah the 2,000lb are nice too

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its also got a really good radar for its BR

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Any other nation? Has to be the Meteor F Mk3. Turns on a dime, decent speed, pretty good damage model. 4 easy to aim guns with a large ammo pool- not the best damage but its workable. One of the best jets for sure at 7.3

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Boo F80 for life
Its the best imo starting jet, not much can outturn you.

Yeah, but aren’t you pretty much toast if you get ganked? That’s why i prefer the F84, you only fight if you chose to.

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I didn’t like the first Meteor, but the foldered Sea Jesus is fun. Also since we’re talking Bri’ish, i want to give a shoutout to Swift F7 (not a starter tho), i loved playing it before they butchered the chadflash missiles

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yea the Fireflash is just sad now. It pulls what 2G? The only thing you might get to hit with the skyflash is a Tu-4, and you’d be better off with a nord

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there is not a single jet in the British tree I can say is a good starter. they are all overtiered, obsolete or just horrifically modelled by gaijin.

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F11F-1 because it’s so fast and the 4 9B’s do wonders if you’re able to think a little before launching them

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Not sure if you’d classify it as a true starting jet because it’s in a folder, but I remember being very fond of the B57B back in the day.

Slapped a tali on it and it made a great power grinder. It looks cool too which is never a bad thing.

I think my overall favourite starter jet (and again, cheating a little bit because it’s beneath something else) is Venom, mostly because it was my first jet back in 2014 (I skipped past vampire), but also because it looks awesome lol.

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Me262 A1U4. Love the way I can look a bomber in the eye and fire not a 50cal but a 50mm into them.

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Meteors, specifically the later models. The early Meteors on the British tech kind of suck (low rip speed, Hispano Mk.IIs and overall worse performance), but the Mk.8 and the NF13 on the Israeli tree are incredibly good.

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P-59A is the lowest BRed jet ingame and for this BR its good. Thats the one if you’re just want to know about US.

In general, considering all points… The German premium Sea Hawk Mk.100. Two Aim-9B at 8.0 is something. Overall performance and guns are ok as well.

(Air RB)

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MK100 is equal to the MK50 in the french tree :)