Embrace The Powercreep | F-16C/F-16D Overview

[@Evrimomono]

The way I'm playing the game, I've figured that I engage enemies mostly on side aspect and since 9M is better on that department, I've been favouring it more too. R73 is great and you literally cannot flare it within 1.7km or so But Id take the ability to fire a bit earlier than that and still get results with 9M Also SMT's inability to hold onto it's energy is a huge blow off to a point I've literally gave up on it and went back to 9-13. I had more fun with it as I like to stay late game and dogfight people which SMT lack on

[@kingghidorah8106]

I've struggled to flare r73s from pure rear aspect, but the aim9m is just unfair lol

[@raygunreagan2274]

F16c is such a powerhouse

[@horpet389]

Here are some things from my experience: Gripen can easily flare most of r73 that was fired from like 500m rear or side aspect(Broken flare patterns? F5 level IR signature? IDK). That feels strange. The Su27 seem to struggle the most while flaring r73 and 9m. F15 can flare r73 from withing km in 1 circle fight(missile incoming top down). F16 and f14 are the easyest jets in US tec tree for the r73 to hit.

[@SeekerHead]

Good comments when

[@vinisardagna]

Not anytime soon lmao

[@Baleygr--]

I edge myself to your content.

[@CPUfy]

Il tell you when i see one

[@saplingseedsaccrew3143]

Define “Good” in the context of comments

[@TriangleV]

@@Baleygr-- this is truly a baleygr moment

[@TheDAWinz]

I've been on a late 90s early 2000s DnB binge so your background music hits different.

[@freezedvegetal]

This is a certified Barak Obma moment

[@batlax18]

Lets fuckin goo

[@_Joob]

Jaek’s New Flavor

[@commandergeokam2868]

Jake wth are you me? Ace combat and GT4 music enjoyer and aircraft enthusiast ;) ;)

[@wilmeroberg9794]

Good thing Sweden's OP viggen from the 70~80's gets some fairer competition...

[@batlax18]

Grippy boy is here

[@urbancoyote4840]

As a MIG 29 main this was very helpful

[@phantom4E2]

just snipe these with R27R/ER its ez, avoid turns just play like a bf109, hit and run all time, turning=dumbass death

[@cactuslietuva]

​@@phantom4E2you get 2 long range missiles which can get you 1 kill, 2 if you are lucky then you still need to get close to fire remaining 4 r73. the biggest problem for me is the amount of missiles you need constantly to dodge which doesn't help when few turns make you go 500 km/h

[@Squeaky_Ben]

I am calling it now. Next update, germany gets... the F4F ICE, a phantom at 12.7, because it gets the AMRAAM XD

[@wapniak666]

There is literally no other option, may as "predict" that next WT patch will have new tank added

[@Kurayami_13]

@@wapniak666 or that it will be a sherman.

[@DanielSantos-df3tc]

If Germany gets that then the existing Kurnass 2000 will also get them since it was able to carry and fire them with its radar

[@dadolphinplayz]

nah germans will get another event prop plane

[@batlax18]

@@DanielSantos-df3tcI’m very excited for that, it’ll be a better version of the launch K2K, instead of 9Ls and 7F/M, Python 3 and AMRAAM, but there is no fuckin way it stays at 11.3 lol

[@lozur5479]

Got some buddys who bought the mig 21 lazer and mig 23 premiums would be awesome to see a video for them! Good content tho.

[@dustinwerner4480]

I love your videos, they are well made and informative. Video idea would be Differences between fox 1, 2 and 3 and how they work. Look forward to your next!

[@perennialE]

I could really go for a Big America burger right now

[@brettward420]

Grand turismo 4 music smacks🔥

[@SAKOSNIPER]

I doubt there's much point adding F-15A anymore; don't think it got flares, and still only uses sparrows; it would get clapped by F-16C. I think Gaijin were a little too eager

[@averyphillap58]

F-5C never got countermeasures either, but ingame it has them. Gaijin has plenty of options to fit the F-15A into the game as is. Not to say I am a fan of adding IRCCM missiles in the game right now though...

[@jaek_898]

F-15A was refitted with flares later on (F-15A MSIP II) so they could use that excuse, or they could use the Israeli F-15A's flares as an excuse as well (same logic used to give F-104S flares when only the Turkish one used them in practice). Basically the flares won't be an issue for F-15A. The question in my mind is if they're gonna just skip to the F-15C with the rate their powercreep is going in the past year. I'm worried they will overdo the Su-27, but I fully expect both planes to smoke whatever it is we have now. All speculation of course

[@FirstDagger]

Again will probably skip right to the F-15C.

[@raygunreagan2274]

If they add the f15a I could see them doing it as a premium then the f15c as the tech tree variant why because the snail is why

[@WeebLord69]

​@@jaek_898i hope they overdo the Su-27 , the f-16 is cancer

[@whirlay4289]

dude grand turismo 4 music

[@Lux_0815]

I like your music

[@pepeellis3703]

Love the gt4 music

[@ComeauYT]

Very surprised how good the f16d is compared to the c

[@arberchabot8760]

Israel getting some love for once

[@Evrimomono]

It's sad to see F14's fall off the meta so quickly after people decided that hugging Planet Earth was so convenient. I'd like to see more of them but I'm personally scared to fly one considering how many F16's there are

[@h4r0ld59]

The f14 shines on EC maps instead of the regular ones because the games aren’t so small and compact

[@auqanova]

The problem is that people don't want to learn bvr, so they instead learn how to avoid letting it happen. The nice thing about the f14 is that when people do eventually decide to do bvr, the f14 will still be solid in bvr. The phoenix unfortunately won't be good until the meta starts to allow for people to climb to 10km alt, and that's largely a map size problem, by the time you make that climb the enemy is at wvr range.

[@martijn9568]

​@@auqanovaPeople will only start to contest the F-14 at BVR, once they think they've got a fighting chance at winning BVR😅

[@ryzkiguruh2942]

Well F14A meta is one of the longest top tier air meta

[@skyress2103]

Gaijin added the mist to avoid people hugging the ground, but instead of people learning how to notch and stuff they complain about how they cant hug the ground anymore

[@SWANNwillSUFFICE]

somebody (you, Defyn, Joob, Seek, GeneralLee, etc) needs to take out the buffed Mirage

[@StingrayMK1987]

Gran Turismo 4 Menu Music. Huh. :D

[@vipedoesstuff]

i will be complaining about every update until the gripen comes out

[@TriangleV]

Saab shitter spotted

[@MrBboy95]

Do I get it right to defend from 9m you need to spam flares and turn instead of poping them 1 or 2 at the time like with previous missiles? Cause spamming in case of latter one made them only track better

[@MD-wn4ui]

You have to flare then turn. When the 9M detects a flare the seeker turns off then uses inertial guidance.

[@MrBboy95]

@@MD-wn4ui That I know, I asked about how much you need to flare, cause before 9Ms you needed 1 or 2 pops to evade, but in video it's suggested that against 9M flares should be more spammed to confuse missile seeker even more.

[@TheByQQ]

@@MrBboy95 You need as many flares as necessary to change direction. With 9Ms you don't use flares to distract the missile, you're using flares to blind the missile. It's a bit like stealth games, especially Splinter Cell. Regular IR missiles are like enemies that aren't alerted, while 9M's are like enemies that already know where you are. With not alerted enemies you can throw a rock or two to distract them and make them go the other way, unless they see you while checking it out. With enemies "in combat" throwing rocks doesn't matter because they don't care. So use a flashbang to blind them instead. But if you blind them and stay in the same spot nothing will change, you have to blind them and move to a different place while they can't see you.

[@babalonkie]

I still think they should give the 9M to the Tornado F.3... UK is lacking top tier jets and in 1990 the F.3 replaced it's 9L's with M's.

[@KaguyasBeat]

Apparently they're supposed to get something new at top tier with the next major update. According to a dev QnA I saw a little before this one came out.

[@a_stone]

Either we're getting AMRAAMs and ASRAAMs with the F.3 CSP or we're getting some other nation's top tier jet. I'm willing to bet it'll be the latter because even on the F.3 airframe AMRAAMs and ASRAAMs with the Foxhunter radar would be an arsecancer combo. @@KaguyasBeat

[@jonleg12312]

@@a_stone I HEAVILY doubt ASRAAMs. 9Ms and early R-73s are to ASRAAMs/ IRIS-T/ AIM-9X / modern R-73s what a 9J is to an 9M. Though I'm pretty sure that we will get Fox-3 missiles at last by the end of the year

[@roadhigher]

@@a_stone Putting Fox-3's on weaker airframes first would be a great way to measure their effectiveness in the current meta, similar to how the Su-25BM got R-73's first. AMRAAM's for the Tornado F.3, F-4F and AV-8B+, and give Russia a MiG-21UPG with R-77's and put them all at 12.3, would create a solid testing environment without too much effort while the garbage FM for the BR would prevent them from being completely game breaking

[@a_stone]

As much as I'd love to the game is not ready for it. 16v16 with the current maps just won't work with Fox 3s. We need smaller matches on big maps for Fox 3s to not be arse cancer. Ofc when it comes to ground I don't give a flying fuck, the more OP the anti flying shit is the better.@@roadhigher

[@vitala1676]

Will we have aim9m in tornado in Germany?

[@jaek_898]

I doubt it (at least on the ones we have now), but you never know

[@cvqe1899]

F-15 vs Su-27 or some other Flanker I bet next patch.

[@jaek_898]

I'm thinking December patch but they should show up very soon now

[@CrackzTV]

@@jaek_898do you think China will their flanker as fast as Germany got mig 29?

[@jaek_898]

@@CrackzTV Not sure, I'm not really familiar with chinese flankers, but from what I've heard there's no reason they can't add a J-11 at the same time as the soviet one. Whether or not they do is a different story (taiwanese mirage 2000 still missing for example)

[@CrackzTV]

@@jaek_898 China suffers!

[@darkleaf5167]

The old meta is dead, long live to the new meta

[@namespacestd131]

Next major update within a month, what do you mean? The next and last major update is supposed to come in December right?

[@jaek_898]

Theres a November update

[@namespacestd131]

@@jaek_898 I see, thanks

[@andyeulu828]

We need Mitsubishi F-2 Viper Zero

[@aren306]

Block 30 is for the gaijin store

[@ODST_Parker]

Aaaaaaaand Italy isn't as good anymore, once again. Being on equal footing was nice while it lasted. Until the F-16A ADF gets AMRAAMs, we're shit outta luck in the Falcon department. Now we have AIM-9Ms, but they're only on the Harrier for now.

[@Red_Lion2000]

Meanwhile Britain still has overtiered phantoms with terrible missiles and an airbus with only decent missiles.

[@DarkTheFailure]

Mig-21 video when?

[@SharkGoesRawr]

Obviously the way to balanced it makimg 30000000000000000x30000000000000000 maps and adding 64vs64. Qlso make the maps start appearing at 9.0 so ur sabre whit only .50cals can "enjoy it"

[@Red_Lion2000]

shame the radar is broken, pd mode just loses lock for no reason on targets flying right at me. Still think they should have added the f15A first.

[@batlax18]

Well its here now and the radars are fixed 😁

[@Red_Lion2000]

@@batlax18 Radars in WT are still far from fixed

[@batlax18]

@@Red_Lion2000 they’re way better then they were

[@phantom4E2]

4 updates of ruski bias then 1 update or 2 of american bias, like mig23mld was broken until f14a and b came in, then we had yak141 being broken now f16c/d be broken, next update su27 or su30 or mig29k or ovk will be broken asf

[@Bobert_da_man]

yak was never broken, it was always just a worse mig29. mig29 9-13 however was definitely overpowered

[@lorddimus]

What US top tier jet should i research first with the new C model of f-16? F-16A or F-14A?

[@jaek_898]

F-16A's flight model is nice but it doesn't have sparrows like the AJ does nor does it have pythons like the Netz so I don't think there's much of a reason to play it if you own the F-16C. I'd go for the F-14s just because they're more unique.

[@Panocek]

@@jaek_898 That said, F-14A aged poorly, so might as well skip it entirely and go for F-14B.

[@jaek_898]

@@Panocek Exactly. Only thing F-14A offers is an easier module grind due to not being end of line, but it isn't worth it

[@Panocek]

@@jaek_898 Not even that, as stock 14A experience with two caged seeker rear aspect only missiles is... peculiar, to say it mildly.

[@wytsevs]

Aardvark when

[@Frogg-YT]

Yes

[@GeneralLee2000]

Me when F-15 in December 🗣🗣🗣

[@rohartmartin8329]

Meanwhile Sweden players still wait to get anything to Top Tier Jets, I was even surprise France didn't got that much left out with the slight buffs to the M2K's, Tho it's still suffering either way to face Powercreeps everywhere with an M2K...

[@batlax18]

Sweden is finally worth grinding, the Gripen is very competitive and I hope you enjoy it o7

[@rohartmartin8329]

@@batlax18 A slight jump in the future xD Yes now Sweden is worth to play in top tier finally~ I don't play them myself But I am happy they finaly got some well deserved love.

[@batlax18]

@@rohartmartin8329 Britain too lmao

[@horpet389]

Aim9M are really broken with its smokeless motor. It is very annoying to pay against in SIM or GRB. In SIM it gets even worse. When you get killed by a missile that you couldn`t see coming even thow you maintained visual on your opponent since the moment he launched it. NATO mains tend to say like it is skill issue on soviets part. Like they don`t know how to decoy 9m, don`t know how to flare and like cry about it, cope, get better. But in reality you can`t defend against something you couldn`t see coming even though youve been wathing in direciton it came from. Preflaring doesn`t work. Cuz it can hit you any moment. You don`t have enough pops of flare button to constantly defend. I belive in reality it its way more smoky then it is in War Thunder.

[@wardogleader3200]

F-16C should have better top speed at high alt btw

[@lorenzooo1175]

What should I get first? Barak 2 or Netz?

[@jaek_898]

Theyre both fun. Barak 2 is probably better overall. Netz has the best flight model in the game and pythons are quite a bit faster than AIM-9Ls. Id say Barak is more meta, Netz is more interesting.

[@crispy_338]

AMRAAM when

[@randomowykolegazinternetu]

Borsuk IFV when

[@hippyhebrewhomestead8593]

Bring back the old music haha. The jazz is a little… strange.

[@jaek_898]

Noted, just trying some different things out so I'm not rotating the same 5 songs forever.

[@hippyhebrewhomestead8593]

@@jaek_898 hey, Topgun did that, and was still very successful haha

[@NovaNeedsTherapy]

When when

[@hazmasterocks]

wait actually? only a month till another major update?

[@jaek_898]

Yes, the last three updates are pretty close together. There's another one in December as well.

[@hazmasterocks]

fuck yeah. love getting new shit to play with haha@@jaek_898

[@abidbmtt]

is it weird that ive not had issues with flaring 9Ms?

[@Phantom-dm9fz]

My poor f4s taking a beating this update as i try to grind towards the top by bombing

[@allabybben]

F 15 when?

[@SkinkUA]

METH

[@GooberD]

F111 when

[@anonymouspotanamus]

AIM9X when