I gotta add too, this is the first video in a while you sound like you are genuinely enjoying yourself -- more of this shit please! I don't care if you only ever fly the same dozen planes as long as you're having a blast I'm learning something and enjoying it!

We missed you Defyn ❤

DEFYN, the F-5E was designed to automatically extend its flaps/slats partially depending on the aircraft's AoA. If you deploy combat/takeoff flaps, it can turn a lot more quickly if needed.

I really enjoy your content. Three years ago I was convinced I sucked at dogfighting because I cannot use the keyboard to control my plane all that well. No feeling in my typing hand nerve damage. After watching awhile I began to realize that much of you skill really is the way you think and plan thru out the match. I think you said more than a few times the setup is as critical as the maneuvering. Anyway what I mean to say is thank you for helping me get better to the point I can now hold my own fairly well even though I still control my plane using mostly the mouse. P.S. I even have started to get better in jets and as a very old guy for whom things move too fast I am tickled pink.

F-5 is much like a F-80. A learning jet for a higher BR.

I just recently got a talisman for the f5e and I have grinded out all of the us jets in a very short time. This thing is just insanely good.

Those deflection kills by the F5E always surprise me. I am used to mig 21 and its slow muzzle velocity. I am always imagining how the enemy plane must have pulled a cobra at mach to hit me but no he is giving almost no lead at 2500km/h mutual velocity.

“Take a massive dunk on him” 😂

Keep up the vids bro. I look for your vids everytime I unlock a new plane

the dutch mountains line, and the epstein line both got a wheeze out of me sir :D

Always good to see a vid from big homie, hope you doing well bro

I was going to talisman the F8E but this beauty got its BR lowered so I saved it for her. Absolutely fantastic plane, not exactly the fastest but I still love it.

F-5e is a fun jet I got it when it was it's original BR (I forgot) played 1 match stock.. never flew it again.. a friend told me the BR has been lowered and I had a lot of fun in it.. the F-5E stock is basically a spaded F-5c I went for the flares first then engine stuff to get those 9j missiles because stock you only get 9e

Your metaphors are always on point lol

Please more F5E or F5C Gameplay. It's so a joy to watch it.

I have been enjoying this plane as a multirole fighter lately, i fly it in Simulator battles carrying AGM's and if need be the 30mm cannon. I target enemy ground targets, especially convoys, and i hsve become pretty effective and picking up thr enemy AA's with AGM's and then swooping in to clean the armours with the 30mm. And while at it i engage every Enemy air target i come across while on route to target or RTB'ing, i dont bother chasing them unless i ID them as really slow movers

the updated cannon sounds on this is great

Yay a F-5E video! I've been grinding it a lot. If you're good with the F-5C, it's worth a talisman to grind out top tier imo. Got my first ever ace in it last night and was so happy! It's gotten me through about 300ishK of rp in around 6 hours of gameplay. At this rate, the F-16 will be mine this weekend. I also have my best kd ratio in it, being 120ish and 60ish. Not the best, but a good start. Side note: I bought the Su-25K to grind Russia next but haven't yet played it, as I'm waiting to finish out top tier America, or at least play the F-16 a bit. Any tips on how to play it/loadouts to take? (This is a ? for everyone, not just Defyn lol)

This has taught me that I need to work on my aim lol. Do you use vertical targeting? And what is your targeting distance set to?

The zingers in this one had me rollin'. Too many to quote 10/10

Been having a blast with this thing again!

Would be great if you could do a video on the Harrier Gr.7 since the new BR and AIM-9L changes. I honestly don't know how to play it now since the Mig-29 and the F-16 were also introduced.

what’s up defyn, not related to the video but thanks for teaching me how to fly my first jet aircraft 😘😘

Ah, the F-5. My favorite jet ever, thanks for the good content man

The combat flaps are great on this thing and they can be deployed while going pretty fast

I remember playing this a fair bit after the F16/mig29 update and getting into a 2v1 against the 29 with an F104... Literally could not do anything against him until he killed the F104 and then took a bad line which let me force a head-on. Nice to see the br drop but I've already researched everything in the US tree and the F5C gets me more SL. Not to mention I've been playing the SMT to grind the 29 myself - and of course the one single worst plane to face is probably the F5E, especially if the pilot knows what they're doing.

good video thanks

For months, I couldn't do well in any of the F-5's because of the guns. Don't know why, just couldn't lead. Maybe it's because i was so used to the early Russian jet guns that I had been grinding to spade since Christmas. Then like 2 weeks ago, something just clicked. I started hitting more planes with the F-5 cannons and grinding the American aviation tree has never been more fun. I still suck at the game and need to check my 6 more often, but killing the enemy has been a lot easier. And dare I say, I've actually been enjoying War Thunder.

"Epstien him in the back of his head, one thing we do know, that guy didn't kill himself" unfathomably based

THIS IS AMAZING I LOVE UR VIDS AND I WAS IN THE 2ND GAME I WAS Azxel6k tysm for making these vids tyhey help me become better

Watched this yesterday, still laughing at the tree joke. 😂

Its too perfect that he made this video i just unlocked the F-5E

What’s your opinion on the upcoming -suffer in pain- repair cost update and changes.

It feels great in the new br. Ive been getting 3-5 kills consistently in a lot of battles now.

"and for the Dutch people, we run for the mountains" has got to be the best line in the video hahahaha

I'm not sure if it's the same but I bought the f5c because it was on sale and I wanted to play jets but I've been pretty much instantly researching vehicles with a single match

Defyn can you try the tracerless swedish planes at 9.7-10.3? like j32b? they are definetly at least a challenge

It’s very fun to fly again and it was great way for me to learn how to fly the f-16 better

Defyn, can you make a guide with prop plane how to actually dogfight? I'm a pretty new player, i grinded the german air line until rank 3 fighters (109s f4,g2 and fw190s) where i struggle the mosts. Most of times when i met better enemy planes or experience, somehow they just knew how to dogfight, turning my advantages, and all of a sudden im the one losing. Most of the times, when dogfighting i always have 1 goal which is getting to the enemy's tails (no matter how do i achieve that i just need to get into his tail, most of the times its messy). So i don't really know, what to do in a dogfight, using advantages, how to counter the enemy and so on. Almost all of my kills are from boom and zooming which doesn't always work. I just don't know what to do in a situation (mostly just mindless rolling, stalling, diving that gets me killed)

I love how people recognized you from your "rat" msj in the chat :DD

We defynitly missed u

GG DEFYN

Perfect for grinding the f16 since theres an RP bonus for using this plane to research it

it was hell to grind this with the starfighter. just got this plane 2 days ago and im having too much fun now

I'm glad there's something less painful along the way to the f16. I've grinded upt to the f4e with the av8 and a4e because everything else is so shit

Defyn, this is 10 months later, you probably wont see it, but if you do, is it worth bringing Chaff or not? You didn’t but I have no clue if you have it unlocked. You didn’t seem to get radar missiles, and it does cut your flares in half, but it can also save your life so idk. It’s my fist plane with flares, I got the F-104A, F-100D and then the F4C and now this

The 1 tap was just disrespectful XD

first game with it I got a 9k, second game a 7k third game an 8k, havent played it again so maybe it was luck, but felt hella good to play it other than the spark cannons since gaijin nerfed them, worth the rediculous 18k repair cost since you wont be paying it most of the times

The defyn of all time

I played it with Yellowjakcet yesterday, and holy fuckshit is it insanely powerfull in the current meta

At the end he didnt want to show us the fight he flexed on us with the chat

Defyn, would you put a talisman on F-5E or F-8E for grinding out rank 8 jets?

Bravo!

I swear even now that the F15A is added, I grinded it within barely 12 Hours in almost a week with just this plane.

Funny thing on the f5e is that the flares are a tier 2 mod

I've been playing my Kfir Canard at 10.7 for the last 2 days and it is insanely efficient grinding with all the terrible low level players flying F-5C's. I am getting like 3-4, sometimes 5 or 6, kills a game consistently, 10.7 match making is so good right now if you are trying to grind.

What do you do with the 2x AIM-9E at this BR (while grinding the F5E). Should you just dump them on an AI YAK-38 or keep for the good looks of the plane?

My baby, the F5E

omg babe wakeup defyn posted

defyn u got ziggo giga ? its good?

would you use the acm radar on this thing?

As a F2p i really enjoyed the aircraft even when it was stock

Ah yes Defyn. W creator.

You know what they always say, a game is at its healthiest when new players can purchase vehicles which are difficult to fly incorrectly

Been having a blast in this thing ever since it got lowered, the repair costs tho 🫠

5th day of asking for the vb10 c1 or 02 and been loving the deadpan humor

F-5 my beloved, i picked the C up a while ago and grinded basically the entirety of the us air tree with it, it’s certainly one of my favorite planes in the game and despite being somewhat nerfed compared to when it first came out its still a very capable platform. Very glad i spent like >400 games in it c:

i buyed the deacel i got the thing that says you got the decal but i cant find it

I need you to make a video explaining the difference between hill and mountain from the perspective of a Dutch, please 😛

Hey Defyn would you say the F-5C and F-5E have a similar playstyle?

Finally know how to play this plane: prefer high speed dog fight, vertical loop retention, and don't get proud of your turn rate . Thank you.

The chat checking if it's you lol

A5 has an extinguisher so it will put out engine fire almost every time.

What about the F-5A vs. the F-5E in the Chinese tree? Both are the same BR, but there is a difference in top speed and weight, can you feel this difference in actual gameplay?

Didn't see you extend flaps during the dogfights? How come? I've found the flaps helpful in low-speed fights.

Now if I am a player that enjoys the f5E over the phantom, would the f-14 or the F-16 be a better aircraft to get?

Low speed dog fights are my absolute favorite in the f-5

7:48 you can land without tail control, but it is just extremely hard

Ground belt is the key to this plane.

3 views, 10 likes. It’s funny but how long will they take to fix that?

Solo’d 10 dudes in this thing (7 kills, 2 crashed a died chasing me to af when I RTB) favorite plane in the game

how do you get the decal?

crazy, when that jet killed himself it didnt give u the kill, but when I jed out in a ground RB game at full health, it gave it to a random jets literally 3 miles away just cause he looked at me..

Can you do a May Sale Guide?

The Epstein joke snuck in was so good

The F5e gotta be the funnest plane at 10.7, your targeted less, people pay attention less, even in uptiers I average 2- 3 kills with guns or 9J and if the 9J is below 0.8Km the 9J ignores flares, recommend the plane if you want a good plane and a fun plane and I know there's usually no fun planes at top tier, this is one of the only ones, mig 21 is also fun and A10 can be fun too, reason being BRRRT and also its a funny dogfighter

Ik hou van dat nederlandse acsent ertussen :))

can you do a new vid for f8e? since it gets it rwr few updates ago and many opponents got br up

how is it compared to F5C? since it is on sale

Defyn: The MiG 21 SPS-K is probably the worst MiG 21 Me looking at the MiG 21 SPS-K i bought in the spring sale: .......................crap

how much fuel did u use?

Is the chinesen air tech tree worth to buy a Premium?

hey defyn, maybe you can try the japanese j5n1.

aww yis

10.7 matchmaking is really favorable now. I played 30 ish battles in the F-104G(Italy) and only saw 11.3 twice, most of them being 11.0 or 10.7 - never saw a tomcat

bro said clearing up some strugglers, made me laugh ngl

Confused haha I read the f5-e is best used at 500-600mph for turning? You’re saying the oppsite?

sexiest plane in the game

I love the F5E but my mig21MF just shreds them.. you just get the F5 to turn once either hit him going slow or climb away lol

hey i really wanna get into the higher tiers of jets but i am struggling with keybinds for radar and flare, got any recommandtions?