How important is speed in airplanes?

[monicaida25]

What is the influence of aircraft speed on air control? because when there is aerial combat, I only see that the game considers maneuverability, attack and defense.

[ilham FREEMONEY.NET]

important for fighter, the first thing you want to upgarede is speed too in MP games

[mk11]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Air_combat

speed improves damage inflicted and reduces damage taken and improves or reduces bombers disrupted.

agility though is more important

[monicaida25]

at the end of all, it seems that the best fighters then are the lvl 3 with the improved engine +5

[Včelí medvídek]

In vanilla (range)*>agility>air attack>speed

With this all keep eye on keeping high reliability or accidents will eat your fighter much faster than enemy.

Air attack is more important for bomber interception while agility give upper hand in actual air combat for superiority.

Speed is somehow secondary. Worthy to note some mods adjust the importance of values like speed (eg. it is major stat in BICE)

Range is mandatory as it gives major penalties - but it is very dependant on country and air infrastructure/distances/air zones size where you play (eg. in Europe is much easier be ok with low range than in Asia)

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by monicaida25:

at the end of all, it seems that the best fighters then are the lvl 3 with the improved engine +5

By default - max engine, than add air attack and reliability +1 each time if you have spare xp.

In some specific scenario (like heavy fighters on interrupt startegic in large air zones..) air attack might be more efficient - but game can be more smooth and easier without thinking too much about such edge scenarios.

[TasteDasRainbow]

Agility is the be all end all for fighters in most cases. In most scenarios I won't even bring weapons buffed over +1 because it detracts too much from agility bonuses.