the american planes being maneuverable close up knife fight specialists while the soviet planes being missile busses seems like such an odd role reversal

This will strongly affect this year's fishing season.

As a certified F-15A player (I am bad at game), the only thing I fear about the flanker is the entire missile factory it carries, if I every get past the great wall of R73 however the Flunker really just falls out of the sky in a sustained dogfight its honestly kinda depressing since I also love how the Flanker looks too.

Thanks man, I don't get presents but I appreciate the "sincere" ER shoved into my cockpit ;)

The SU-27 in later models are renowned for their initial turn in which combined with the R73 makes them incredibly dangerous in a merge. The BVR aspect you already covered with the R27ER/ET and until we get Fox 3s in game this is likely the best it is going to get.

I Love how good at the game you are you never crash or die in any of your games.

Shoutout from Indonesia, love this content for the entertainment, education, and shoutout with the Indonesian Air Force livery

Ah yes, the Gesushi 30mm gun

this man has never died in air rb

Man the way you fly is very nice. Honestly I learn a lot watching your films. Thx for that

With all these missiles itd be nice if gaijin bundled them when using weapon selection, its really annoying having to switch from 2/10 R-73 to 2/10 R-73 when it should just be 4/10, then 4/10 R-27ER, so on… its a pain having to memorize it for each aircraft when trying to dogfight and select between weapons

I love that TNI-AU Su-27 skin looks Dope af

1:37 those cuts are just genuinely made

OMG, my nation as the decal for the Su-27. Thx, I was really hoping to see that 😊

They made a bunch of PD modes on advanced aircraft capable of acquiring and maintaining lock on notching targets that are high up or at least look-up. I've noticed this includes static chaff.... ACM even in PD mode is scuffed when there's an abundance of chaff now in ym experience.

As an indonesian I am surprised to see the Indonesian Air force roundel on your SU27. Very cool to see and I appreciate it :)

Gonna be crazy when we get 12 and 14 missile planes, not looking forward to it but it's inevitable. I wish the missile groups only counted per missile type instead of per wing mount.

what a great war thunder content creator. love your video man keep it up.🗣️🔥

A dutch person using an Indonesian camo on a russian plane Love it

I like of your playstyle on doing it, and i like it when you using Indonesian Camo for the SU 27☺

Fun fact: Su-27 is 22m in length, just as B-17 heavy bomber.

My biggest issue so far it that they changed CW Illuminators and radars in PD seemingly randomly lock chaff or missiles go stupid. It's been incredibly frustrating.

u ARE THE BEST, TNX FOR HELPING US!!!!

2:08 you know you have a tws mode and a pd headon and tws headon mode which makes its easier to detect and maintain lock on longer ranges(head-on modes) as long as they are heading towards you

Damn, Indonesian Airforce camo, didnt expect to see it 🔥 🔥

Dutch guy using Indonesian air force camo. Now that's what I'd call historically accurate.

6:05 damn, looks very cinematic

Thank you for including the clip I was in (Lt_Acheron) it was a good game there

i am sorry that youre dutch but always greatful for your vids, sometimes i feel half decent at this game thanks to all the insight you give and the importance you place on understanding mechanics

yoo DEFYN the thing about the flare drop, yea you only drop 1 while every other drop 2, but large caliber flares are 4x times better than normal flares, which kinda compensates

this plane is like a late 90s -mid 2000's MMA heavyweight : roided up, extremely large and suprisingly agile freakshows that tires wayy too easily

Hey DEFYN, I love your plane guides, but often struggle with opening strategies in specific BR ranges/planes. E.g. Where do you go in Top Tier? Should you Climb at 9.0+? There is alot of talk of positioning(especially at top tier) and I struggle with getting into an ambush position(I‘m in the F16C). Where do I go, how fast do I go at the start and what do I do once the enemies and friendlies have merged? Often I try to flank but end up getting headonned by 8 guys and get Magics and R73s up my tailpipe. Could you maybe make a guide on early-game presence and positioning? Maybe a few example clips as well.

Defyn never fails to fill me up

This plane brought back memories of Battlefield 3, next year it is certain that the F18 super hornet will arrive

Grinding the tree with the m23 rn researching the su-9 cant wait for this haha

i would kill to get to do some customs with you man, and yeah they seriously gimped the su27

the 3:57 caught me offguard ngl

defynh trying his best not to joke about planes: impossible.

personally, in a dogfight (at least in the custom 1v1s ive played), i find doing a cobra when they about 0.5 km behind, reversing them, and then r73ing them is funny af

Gotta love that Indonesian Air Force skin on the Flanker

1:35 ouch I can’t believe the footage got corrupted of you managing to fly back and repair then wiping the whole enemy team

you should make a video on your control setup im struggling with mine the higher up im getting

This man is the Teacher.

This thing is a HMD directing, angle of attack fighter. Not an energy fighter cus its huge and quick to lose speed.

Oh god the DCS player horde is coming, they’re gonna tell me exactly how many circles I need to get a 10kd

Sick camo on the su-27

Is that the TNI-AU camo? Now that i thought about it, my country arsenal of jet's is basically the typical Ace Combat roster. Just missing a high tech craft with laser's.

1:50 that its almost a "falling leaf" maneuver that the Su-57 can do freely and turn around really fast. The F-22 can also do it but its much slower in it turn.

My favorite looking plane in history

we need to be careful in heado

Bro, I don't know why but this thumbnail meme always makes me laugh 😂😂

My only issue with HMD and ACM is the range is 10km.. On alot of other top tier jets it's 19km

Something must have happened to the radars in top tier.. Like at 07:29 how it just locks something behind him, I can't even tell how many times i've tried locking someone in the SU-27 or MIG-29 the past few weeks and the radar just decides to say "F*ck no I ain't locking that" It is so infuriating

So that's why I kinda struggle when going up close and personnal with the su27 because I'm used to dogfight aggressively when I play the mirage 2000

didn't know the Su-27 was chill like that

Been doing something different in top tier lately instead of me using those planes I like to bring out the su22m3 to 12.3 battles and it’s pretty funny when you get kills.

Wauw 😢 wat emotioneel toch

Su-27 is beautiful and i think that if it had it's historical flight model it would probably be 13.0 but gaijin just made it 12.3 with a boogazooga flight model in order to fit with the new aditions.

The Flanker’s radar is bugged. I’ve been playing it in sim and the radar barely wants to search targets. Then it easily breaks lock when the target flies straight.

I'd much rather they just gave the western planes AIM-120As isntead of absolutely gimping the Flanker's flight performance and Radar performance for the sake of balance

HMD on console is very frustrating almost pointless unless I’m using the yaw axis but I’ll g lock and or haft to flare while pressing three different buttons at the same time not including launching missiles and switching on off seeker head when locked on flares

Oh hey look, it's me 0:50 Very epic

its quite annoying for its auto flaps to use for me to counter positive g using negative g. basically with flaps out it doesnt allow you to pull down to create negative gs

Hey DEFYN, what tree do you recommend grinding as I just finished the Chinese tree so I got the j11 and not sure what to play and grind

I have to say that the thumbnail on this video is exceptional

Are you going to play AMX Ghibli? I did not see it on the dev server and it looks interesting. It has flares and aim9-l 's at 10.3. It might be capable in air rb.

4:02 "HMD and my benis..." Nani?

defyn rocking the indonesian air force skin

Hey Defyn, apparently the P-39 had it's flight model completely overhauled with the Air Superiority update. Do you have any plans of flying it out?

Energy is indeed stored in the balls

Great vid

inverted cobra manouver :D :D

7:30 good doggie

man that thumbnail singlehandedly made me click the like button

Hi, do you think the f15J is a good plane for dogfighting? i got mine but i'm afraid to even play it, because i didnt get the meta yet, thank you love your videos!

i like how he trying to turn at 1200km\h and talking about "LOW MANEURABILITY"

Beatiful thumbnail

I recently unlocked, bought and crewed the f15a havent played it yet. Watching this definitely shouldn't cause me anxiety

Based Indonesian cameuflage

A full team of su27s has 160 missiles at their disposal, gaijin needs to lower the team count to at least 10 or 8

So what plane are they gonna aim to release next year? I’m assuming f18 will be out by then. Maybe B1B after f111?

1:37 ummm wtf just happened 🤣🤣🤣

hey defyn, how do you get the decal you always have on the aircraft your playing with? like on the side of the wing.

highly agree with the ET missiles being insanely good. been lobbing them front aspect at like 13km and by the time it gets to them they dont see it. Fox 3 at home tbh

What do you guys think is the better fighter now the mig 29smt or the su27 ?

I'have very bad english, hardly understand what you are saying :D Can you write me, what radar modes do you use and when? As i know HDN for headons, src pd any other case? Same with ACM or HMD...

@DEFYN 3:57 ... Lmfao got that one 9/11 ....... I was around when that happened literally around the area but nice pun thrown in there.

I have the feeling that my chaff are rarely working

I do feel like the flight performance on Su-27 is very odd, I don’t know if it’s accurate or just gaijin being gaijin but the nose doesn’t pull where you want and just goes straight down. (I find the rader controls very annoying as a console player especially the skyscraper mode but I prefer the little box or normal radar lock)

since i only use the rectangular radar but i might want to start to use the normal one, i was wondering what are those big green line that appears when he locks someone

Last gripen guy has a very sus name

WOOOW INDONESIA 🇮🇩🇮🇩 CAMO 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Ps. Hello From Indonesia

I hope they fix the soviet planes in terms of energy retention....

I could dodge most of those radar missile for my team, but they cant to the point i always climb early to bait some of it..

When your done with new planes please do A-36

Such a shame they fucked FM of the Flanker, once you empty 2 fuel tanks and get rid of some missiles, it should be absolute low speed monster

What's up, Defyn?

to help with your complaint about the dogfight performance, thats actually the desired design of the su 27. the su 27 is a one circle aoa fighter designed with high off boresight missiles in mind. your main goal is to pull way harder than the enemy after a merge and get the first missile shot. this will be even more exaggerated in later variants that add canards. outside of dogfights the su 27 was meant to be similar to the f15, having a slight edge in missile range and slight disadvantage in absolute top speed. importantly, both of these were designed with the goal to never dogfight, but still be capable in one. so the soviets compromised and made a plane thats a one trick pony in a dogfight, and the americans did the american thing and overengineered their plane until they didnt need to compromise.

_What kinda gun do we have again?!_ xD

I have a feeling that they will add SU 30 and the turning radius will be a beast