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[trikke]

one 20mm and four 50 cals seems kinda light for what you're going to see at T8

Decent maneuverability and 500 mph seems useful

Who's flown this enough to review this plane?

[wylleEcoyote]

I havent flown it but its on my things to get list.

Here is why.

It wont out gun another MultiRole. But when they (often) miss, you wont. 
It wont outrun a Heavy. But it can catch them with a boost even beyond its optimal altitude. 
It wont out turn a light fighter. But it can Boomy Zoomy them.


At first glance the forward guns are kinda light.
But used well it trades brief bursts of high alpha damage at longer range for reliable damage over time that can be more useful vs ground targets
Killing fresh GAA will give you fits but on the plus side you are much less likely to miss enemy and a.d.a. light fighters. 
 

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the firepower in question at 560 meters range is equivalent to 3x 20mm cannons. All of which is centrally mounted on the plane so you dont have to use 5 skill points of marksman Advanced Gunsights to address usual issues with dispersion that wing mounted cannons have. Speaking of Equipment you dont need; that HMG heavy load out means you bypass the usual over heat problems that  "4 x 20 mm guns" give MultiRoles at tier 8. So no need for mounting RBC's
You do loose some crit production ... but in reality that is now exchanged for enough fire-starting potential to reliably burn everything (even ground targets)
when maxed for fire chance with GOA.

"Ground pounding !?! " "Why would you want to do that?" you ask.
Because its a MR with a better ground strike package than a super-Thud.

 With the bank of 10 (TEN!) rockets that are the tier 8 equivalent of what HVAR's do in tier 5-7; you can reliably pound the ground in this plane.
Or you can screw with other players and pick up surprise Rocketeer badges like it was tier 3 all over again.

And almost as fast, thanks to using the beefier version of the engine you find in a Vampire
The only MR that can reliably catch it in the flat; without prior advantage, is the Me 109 TL (which no one flies anymore, if they ever did)
and the J8M which is built to chase down just about anything.

"ok so its quick. that just means it cant turn to save its life"

When it comes to turn fighting  it is only juuuust a bit less agile than a Seafang or Tempest. and juuust a bit more than your average Super Corsair
Combined with the peculiarities of the aforementioned Goblin jet engine, the SAAB has enough Power to Weight to make even the likes of them work hard for that win in a vertical fight.  Enough so that it can still be effective beyond its optimal altitude.

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(P.S if they can still out turn you after one revolution; then they likely dont have the the speed to catch you, if your boost is available) 

 

 

 

In a tier that is full of planes that are Masters at one particular thing ... this jack of all trades is just good enough at everything else that a skilled player can leverage the enemy's weakness into some kind of advantageous outcome. 

Additionally such a trainer aircraft can work for any nation and make some use of just about any combination of pilot skills.

[SpiritFoxMY]

trikke, on 08 November 2019 - 09:16 PM, said:

one 20mm and four 50 cals seems kinda light for what you're going to see at T8

Decent maneuverability and 500 mph seems useful

Who's flown this enough to review this plane?

 

Reitousair has got 25 Gabreskis on his - Its a running joke on the Discord. He's reviewed it in Quesnel's thread on premiums.

Edited by SpiritFoxMY, 09 November 2019 - 01:33 PM.