How do you fight f5cs

[Kyorger]

F5cs are one of the most annoying planes in 10.3 is there any why that I can counter them?

[Chief Beef]

What do you usually fly at 10.3? Somewhat depends on the plane but the f5s are incredibly good dog fighters in the right hands.

[Kyorger]

Originally posted by Chief Beef:

What do you usually fly at 10.3? Somewhat depends on the plane but the f5s are incredibly good dog fighters in the right hands.

I fly the aj 37 viggen with one 30mm gun and 25 countermesures and 2 rb24j aka am9js but swedenifyed

[Firestorm🗿]

I usually kill F5s by getting them to overshoot me before firing my cannons or getting the drop on them with a missile. As of yet, my only plane near that BR is the Sea Harrier.

[Chief Beef]

Originally posted by kyorge:

Originally posted by Chief Beef:

What do you usually fly at 10.3? Somewhat depends on the plane but the f5s are incredibly good dog fighters in the right hands.

I fly the aj 37 viggen with one 30mm gun and 25 countermesures and 2 rb24j aka am9js but swedenifyed

So to be honest I don’t have any of those top tier Swede planes yet, but I have faced them in my own f5e and from my experience the Swedish planes will beat the f5 in a straight line, I’m not sure how the aj37 flies but the f5s can keep and gain speed really well around like .60-1.00 Mach, but it has a really hard time going over accelerating over Mach. So if I were you I would try to keep my speed up when I fight f5s, don’t get into a turn fight unless you know you can win it 100%. Otherwise just try to boom and zoom and keep your speed up.
An experienced f5 pilot can bleed Swede planes using turns so be careful of that, I’ve faced a number of premium Saabs where I just make them pull a ton of G’s at a time until they are basically stalling out and they make for easy kills, so don’t fall into that trap either.

[TheMuffinEngineer]

Originally posted by kyorge:

Originally posted by Chief Beef:

What do you usually fly at 10.3? Somewhat depends on the plane but the f5s are incredibly good dog fighters in the right hands.

I fly the aj 37 viggen with one 30mm gun and 25 countermesures and 2 rb24j aka am9js but swedenifyed

To beat them in a dogfight, dont engage them unless you are going 1000kph not much more or less, pull in to them directly till about 800 kph to not lose all your energy and jink, then when they hopefully miss if they continue to try and fight you turn into them and by that time you are slotted on their 6, and being a viggen you stick onto people and are near impossible to shake, if they do start trying to get you to really low speeds and youre balls to the wall then get 450 kph or lower and DROP DEM FLAPS. Those mfs give you damn near thrust vectoring at low speeds but they rip easy. If you need more assistance just ask me.