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Old 17th Dec 2014, 16:00
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Evalu8ter
 
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Oz,
I did say 'fast'...!

IMHO The Jag was the easiest FJ of the lot to beat in a RW; poor vision post merge, poor turning performance, no radar or IRSTS, only one set of eyes and a big-ish planform when (trying to) turn. Never looked comfortable at low speed (no pun intended), but then nor did the F3....Doubtless the HMD and ASRAAM combo (which I think the Indians got?) would have been a massive improvement. The fact is, to set up for a low level lay down attack requires the jet to acquire and maintain tally for a long time, and assumes the Helo doesn't do anything about it. If you can blanket an area with Frag then well done - but it's not as easy to do as it sounds and would require a large slice of luck for one jet with one or two weapons (unless you're plinking from ML with a LGB). When the -15Es did it to me they simulated 2x Mk84 per jet and I was over the water so maintaining either radar or visual padlock was a lot easier....

Great fun trying though......
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