what classifies a plane as a turn fighter or bnz. ect

[Dashin]

people say that the american planes are bnz and people say that the Japanese planes are turn fighters yet they have similar turn time. what classifies these sort of things like tell me what is considered a turn fighter or bnz

[Mechanical_Lamb23]

No experience with japanese planes, but what makes almost all american planes boom and zoom is

Arcade: Theyre just outturned by almost everything else in existence, and are probably the worst nation to play (ak Warthunder on hardmode = playing american planes)

Realistic battle: American planes tend to have alot of energy retention which (as far as i understand it) is the ability to gain speed and retain it after pulling out of a dive. Their turn times stil arent that great from my experience. Theyre boom and zoom because youre supposed to dive, knock out your target and use youre (appearently usually superior) energy retention to maintain a high speed as you make your getaway.

I only play arcade (played RB a few times but i find it a waste of time), but an example is the american P51, the american BF109 and the american A6M2 (a japanese plane). The p51 turns very very slowly compared to everything else that isnt an american plane. Soyou will almost always lose a turnfight. But the BF109 turns on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dime and ive never had anything give me trouble shaking, and hardly lose turnfights. The A6M2 is even better and turns what seems to be twice as fast the BF109, it turns stupidly quick.

[↯Zindy⛦]

warthunder wiki often tells you which is which but i wouldn't recommend it, if you read how to play a plane a certain way, and if i tell you a plane rips it's wings at X speed and it cannot turn, you will never use the aircraft to it's full potential and never know it's true limits. The best advice i can give you is take those "labels" with a grain of salt, do some test drives and use it based on that.