And yet again, Defyn is suffering for our entertainment. Really enjoyed that last dogfight. I never have enough patience in this situations and i usually just die or get slammed.
I love this aircraft. My loadout is 2x2000 lb bombs, 2x500 lb pounds, 2xMagic 2s, and the 530E. I fly it like the su-25. Low and fast, strike a base, then pop up for some kills. I was able to grind the entire French tree in 5 days with it (yes I have a job. Yes, I was on Christmas vacation lol).
I’m going to try this and see how it works. Edit: I don’t know how the fuck you managed to do it efficiently I get intercepted by either f14 f16 or mig 29.
Bruh the number of times I get snuck up on in air rb is insane. U really gotta listen and pick out suspect engine noises coming in. Ends up forcing me to react without even seeing my opponent when they’ve been tracking me from 4+km away, and even by the time i hear their engine their silent IR missile is already in my cockpit. totally fair
the state of markers is now closer to SBEC than anything else. Sure, realism, but disappearing in yo face til 2km away? please, that's the maximum distance for bullets effectiveness and the average ir missile optimal launch distance.
Tbh I prefer no markers. I think actually having to spot the enemy properly rather than rely on some big ass marker takes more situational awareness and skill. Rendering is obviously the problem there though
@@christopherchartier3017 I don't think they were dogfighting more like turning to each other F1s and F5s dogfighting traditionally would have been rare simply because F1 had a better radar + better missiles F5s never carried radar missiles or really strong radars
Okay, but how for the love of god this plane sits at the same br as Mirage 2000C? In prop - aircraft terms it would be like Spitfire mk. 5 having same battle rating as Spitfire mk. 24 or something
@@Bobspineable us has all aspect at 10.0 and ussr at 9.7 so why does all aspect means 11.3 for france ? The F1s are at the same br as M2k and F-14 which is absolutely disgusting
These are really good videos. Great to learn what is good to buy, how to fly certain aircraft and general tips. It would be really cool to see a video, as someone who is fairly new to air RB in general, where you detail how you should move around the map. Not like a positioning guide, but more like "when is a good time to attack, what are your opportunities to engage and how to spot them, and where you should be in order to benefit your team the most." Something like that would be fantastic.
i spaded the techtree migare f1c after the patch and my winrate is only around like 35% in around 100 matches due to facing usa 11.7 everygame in a plane that can not carry at all
That fight at the end was one of the best I've seen on this channel, 2 great players one against another not making any big mistakes, too bad it had to end with a rearm missile but anyway well played for both
Thank you soo much man, for all your help and advice. At the beginning of the year I had no idea what I was doing in plane, watching your videos I finally got an idea of how to aim the guns and lineup shot, this was in ground RB. over the last few months I've been going into Air RB and picking up to 3 kills on occasion. I've been playing war thunder for 7 years and never understood dogfighting but your videos really made a difference.
I've been flying the standard Mirage F1C recently. I've entirely given up on the radar missiles and now take 2x Magic II and 3x R530E and go full IR spam. I've personally had a lot more success with the aircraft playing it as an IR surprise delivery service. It is my experience that whatever theoretical advantage to hit-rate Super Matras have of the regular 530s is entirely cancelled out by having to lock the enemy, giving them warning and then maintain that lock and your attention for however long. Meanwhile once you fire off that 530E it demands nothing else from you. This does limit your effective engagement ranges significantly and certainly isn't meta, but nothing about the plane is meta in the first place. So I guess at least it's sort of fun and I no longer have to get frustrated at the missiles themselves getting notched (Or whatever else causes them to randomly lose track) whilst I hold a perfectly good lock on the enemy.
Your sense of humour always hits me in the right spot, thanks for making us smile, and keep doing what you enjoy. (7:47) Happy new year DEFYN, my wishes foremost to your health, then success!
I talismaned my tech tree F1C while I was grinding for the Mirage 2000C so I could familiarize myself with the missiles, but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head here. Like, it's not bad by any means, and I've managed to get a couple ace matches in it (very sorry for when it inevitably goes to 11.7 next patch because I had two good games in it), but when you have to spend the first half of the game on the deck, notching against F-14's, F-16's, F4's, etc., you're going to start pretty much every game at a disadvantage because you're, ya know, on the deck, at the side of the map, while the enemies have been able to secure the altitude above the center of the battlefield.
Thankfully the F-16s and Mig-29s are 12.0 now so the F1C can get some breathing room If it goes down to let's day 10.7 it's going to be very fun to use
In a video from the summer (ish) you said you went to ride in the Ardennes, knowing you’re from the Netherlands I imagined you talked about bicycle riding, but today you’ve talked about motorcycles, soooo is your taste in airplanes similar to irl motorcycles ? You seem to like light airplanes with high energy retention, what would that translate to ? MT-09 ? Streetfighter ?
I loved this video so much, it's really motivational, and teaches us how gameness (the eagerness to win against all odds) can get you wherever you want. Well done Doof.
TEC (guy that doesnt Understand and can't play this game on even mediocre level), said this jet was the best premium jet. Of course I disregard his opinion 99% the time
today i got my first sim kill i was coming back from a failed napalm bombing on my su7 bmk, and im just rtb. but with corner of the eye i see a little plane flying almost exatly my way: its a fully loaded f5c going for a bomb run. poor guy understood i was on his tail last second, but to his luck he probably gets the rwr activated and starts turning. now to notice, aiming with a controller is VERY hard, but i get lucky and shoot down the guy. absolutely proud
Honestly I love the mig 29. At this point if you die my a radar missile it’s pretty much a skill issue. You can notch easily in the mig 29 from about 4 km and 3 km is cutting it pretty close to get one shot at anyway. Just cut afterburner if your going above Mach 1 and have an amazing time. If they’re close you will need to use chaff. Works every time. This thing is a beauty and can absolutely out turn anything in a low speed turn fight except for the f16 maybe. But that’s what those ERs are for. F16s no longer own the high ground 🤤. It is pretty fun to bully f14s with missiles too, and as long as you maintain closure, you’ll never lose the dogfight. Aim 54s may catch you by surprise but it’s pretty easy to dodge once you get used to ppl spamming 6 in the beginning of the match.
when I was playing the F1C, it was quite easy to get S530F kills simply by climbing and using top down aproach, where their RWR doesnt work. now that F14s are preventing the opposite team to fly at any kind of altitude, and that for some obscure reason France is matched against USA every single time, its not possible anymore.
the issue is the S530F has gotten nerfed over time and you can literally chaff it with a single chaff pop without even moving its pretty damn sad i rather bring 3 530Es than the Fs just because of the joy it brings me watching that slowass missile chase a panicking tomcat into a ratefight because he wont stop afterburning lol
It's not the plane's fault that Gaijin seriously expects you to dogfight F16 in jets that are basically just flying busses stacked with missiles. Top Tier air combat is an utter joke. I still like the Mirage. It looks very beautiful too.
12:40 big dumb J-7E. Always turn off the radar gun sight. It gives people RWR pings, and does nothing for you except take up space on your screen. I think they allow missile slaving to it now but, idk why you'd use it they still basically need to be right in front of you regardless.
I'm gonna do something stupid and ask if it would be possible to get a video with you flying your favourite plane or something like a top 3 of them. Doesn't matter what BR it is, I'm just curious to know what you prefer.
If Gaijin refuses to put planes at 13.0 to alleviate the compression, they could at LEAST move the F-16, MiG-29 to 12.0, and Mirage 2000, F-14 and MLD to 11.7. Maybe the EJ Kai could go to 11.7 as well since it gets Aim-9Ls now. F1C could be very competitive if they just balance the plane right
Was considering getting this (I must be becoming fucking unhinged) but reason prevailed and I plopped a talisman on my Jag E and thank God for that epiphany.
Gaijin repair costs seem to be such a meme, 20k for the j-7e and 14k for the f16? Balance by plane not by players. The fact that the TT variant of this is just under 15k is also a joke.
@@H-cranky It really depends on the time of day and the day of the week though. During prime time for Europeans Germany often turns into America with how bad many of those players are.
if your talking props, generally USA always has bad teams, the planes require you to know how to energy fight, and with mostly 50 Cals as their main guns they also require good aim new players usually go to the big 3, most commonly USA or Germany, and that causes a lot of new players to turn fight in American planes that aren't good turn fighters. the planes are good by themselves, they just don't work for people who are new. When I am playing props, I always assume a zero is more of a threat than a P-51, you don't need skill to constantly keep turning, a P-51 does that and they die. It's nearly the same for jets to be honest, when most people are buying the AV-8A or A-10, they spend most of their time getting kills with good missiles, and when they finally get the jet they want: F-16, F-14, F-4, they have no idea how to maneuver well. 5 years ago this wasn't a problem, since no premiums had super good all aspect missiles that gets you an easy kill just by hitting some buttons.
Just more proof that you can tell us a plane sucks but you still have the skill to dumpster some people just because you know how to fly a gosh darn plane
It's kinda funny, I picked this thing up for no other reason than to grind French tech tree, first 3 games I got 4 kills. And I am a crap jet player, tbh. I guess it's just the difference between a normal player and a power gamer on the bleeding edge of meta....I enjoyed it well enough and it does what I wanted it to do: Gain RP. 3 of those kills were with the 530E's. Maybe I just got lucky and only had to fight potatoes even worse than I am. It could be a thing. LOL That F-14 at about 7:30? Yeah, that wasn't the tree...that was the squirrels. Squirrels are OP. 😜
2000D-R1 is silly but fun in sim, it does have some unique advantages there. Only thing I can think of that fast with the super easy mode fly-by-wire, a thermal camera, up to four guided air-to-ground weapons two of which are powered, 2 all aspect IR missiles, and the same incredible radar as the 2000C. It's still fairly pointless. By comparison the F1-Cs do not have fly by wire and if you pull hard you will instantly spin out. Quite recoverable, not F-14 flat-spin-o-matic status, but also much much easier to do.
Since they dont want to add the south african air tree to britain, they should have just used the Super Mirage F1 instead of this for france, atleast then it would have been a bit more unique with better mobility and R73’s….
Ive had an ok experience spading the f1c tech tree, if you omit the radar missles for the gun pods ive had much more fun and success. The gun pods are only like 80kg each(unless they changed it) and ive gotten so many more kills this way. If you are tryna spade the f1c try it out, might work for you
I also got rid of the radar missiles for the gun pods. FAR superior experience. Go with 2 magic 2, 1 IR 530, and 2 gun pods. Plane still sucks but you'll suffer less.
I actually have a better winrate with the F1C compared to the Mirage 2KCS5 before getting magic 2's. The missiles make so much of a difference that the F1C is actually decent.
I’ve been looking to possibly buy this as I’ve started grinding the French tree since I’ve basically finished Japan (except for naval). Maybe this may finally mean I’ll get to use guided munitions for once in my life, since I’ve never used them before. Onto something else for Japan, they finally fixed the Kikka. After an eternity of being bugged, they actually fixed it.
Considering that he isn’t in Gaijin’s partner program I don’t think his bad takes are based on snail orders. From what I’ve seen his air RB gameplay mainly consists of him flying out a plane with good guns and taking 4 people head on, killing 3 and trading with the 4th, his commentary is generally “4 kills in a match that’s pretty good”.
I bought it because i knew I had to do a decent amount of games with it to get a good opinion when it came out. Grinding France blows so every bit helps
It’s a one trick pony but it performs the trick well. First: it is NOT a J-7E. You don’t have the wings to pull the same crap. With that out of the way, you can get a good win rate and KD ratio by just orbital striking people from 40k feet with PL-5b. Most people won’t see it coming and you get easy kills. If someone notices you though, you will die. You don’t have all aspect missiles so you HAVE to go defensive and at high altitudes you will turn like a cruise ship. You might not have time to notch properly. TLDR: Stay high and orbital bomb people but be inconspicuous. You get focused down you will die.
@@Bennyy85 The 5b has a very long range but a short booster. It is a good missile because there is no long smoke trail for people to see and flare. The 7 has a very good pull but it is super flare hungry and extremely short range. You need to be within 2km to hit anything. It just decelerates so fast. When you are that close, people see you and just flare it.
I would say that if Mirage F1 gets a proper PD radar Matra530 (the one without any character) can be good in 11.3, but sadly Gaijin says NO MTI radar is not a PD one🤣.
I have that feeling that the F1 don’t get the love it deserve.. maybe because I’m French, don’t know, but I often go back to the F1C and always end up with 4 or 5 kills per game with this one… a score I can have with a Mirage-2000 or a MiG-29 You just need to manage your missiles for when they can be utile (and not to shoot magic 2 head on at 1.5km for example) and learn to lead the guns…
This thing is sad even in full downtiers. I'd take the F-5C or the SMT over this thing any day of the week. The Mirage 2000C did get a top speed buff so if someone is gonna get this to grind it out then I kinda get it tho.
Riding a motorcycle is already saving the environment with the incredible gas mileage and the inevitable donation of your organs one day to some treehugger maybe.
Honestly debating getting the Mirage-F1C-200, mainly because I wanna get the mirage-2000 and the Milan is pure hell to grind with and I do know the F1C isn’t the best jet and the magic 2s are its only pros.
idk mate maybe with the new top dogs it's harder but I had a 67% win rate with the F1C out of 131 games before the patch with 1.6KD. Sure the radar missile are easily chaffed but not everyone has enough braincell to do it. Magic 2s are just the best IR missile after the R27s and will ignore flares completely in rear aspect shots unless they pull some crazy maneuvers with it.
I have been flying the F-4E recently and it feels similar to the Mirage F1, having slightly better radar missiles but a much worse radar with similarly poor performance.
I fly both (in sim). The Mirage is bad at low speed turning fights because it designed for high speed turning. While the F4E is the opposite alongside with the Mig21BIS/Smt. In sim i had no problems with outturning 21's/23's and phantoms. All i had to do is maintain some speed
Actually 2000D is really good AC for cas in ground rb. Obviously 27K is still best cancer you can face in ground rb but 2000D with two nords and lgbs just enough to make suffering for grounds unit as well. Guarantee ground four kills just like the loadout you shown in this vid and the basic performance which is based on 2000C are insane compare to other shitty ass french high tier jets.
Gaijin nerfed the flight perf of The F1 to ashes from the very first release of F1C. and they never listen to proofs documents i sent them.... the only thing that could make the F1C/CT good is to put his proper flight performances.... but gaijin will never, cause it's french (sadly) i worked on F1C, and it's an absolute beast, even today ! so sad gaijin sucks at whatever is not USA/USSR/GERMANY
The Mirage F-1 never was a beast. It wasn't ever good. The best that could be said about it was that it was capable and cheap. When introduced it was worse than the early MiG-23s, of which we have the BN as an example. All of the Ms are the last examples of the MiG-23 and are the best MiG-23s. Compared to every gen 4 fighter it has worse radar with worse avionics and a significantly worse airframe. It was designed to be a cheap gen 3.5 and an attempt to get a number of sales as an export product with the oncoming release of the gen 4 fighters. However poor timing with the international sale of the F-16A (a gen 4 fighter) prevented it from really getting many sales. This pissed off Dassault management. They thought it unfair because the money they put into it wasn't going to be returned to them. Their response was to make the Mirage 2000. An aircraft specifically designed to take on the F-16 in a 1v1 and win. When a number of countries did mock fights between the Mirage F-1 and F-16As that couldn't be fitted with AiM-7s Dassault thought that the F-1 could win the fights thanks to its BVR capability that the F-16s didn't have. However the F-1 was using an old and outdated radar system that was fairly well known. The F-16 pilots knew this and flew to the F-1 in a manner in which its older radar could not lock onto the F-16. Once at the merge the newly designed airframe with FBW just effortlessly outperformed the F-1 in every metric. Why? The F-1 also had an old and outdated airframe design being a Mirage III with a standard wings and tail set up rather than the delta design. The best you can hope for in terms of buffs to the F-1 is taking it from really bad to it might be okish. The F-1 was just a bad plane and was, for the most part, outperformed by the Mirage III that it was based on. Watch Growling Sidewinder's video called Was The Viper The Right Choice for a more accurate F-1 model against a simulated F-16A. Yes, it is a F-16C airframe instead but in regards to WVR performance the F-16C is actually notably worse than the F-16A and they flew the F-16C under the limitations of the F-16A.
@@rainsilent I’m talking IRL dude… I know the F-16 is a beast, but the time F1C was released, it was very competitive. Its flight performances, once again, are very good. DCS is not 100% true. Very close, however. And still, in GS UA-cam, F1 is very capable of dogfighting. But in game here, F1 can’t dogfight mig 23. When IRL mig 23 was crap. So yes, you have some points there. But sill I worked on this beast. Still I know what I’m talking about. My mentor in French Air Force had 2000+ flight hours on it ;) And again, I’m talking about FLIGHT performance, not weaponry. I was weapon technician IRL, and on that I can only agree that it’s weaponry is not that good (except DEFA 552/3 - dmg in game are freakin hilarious though)
@@ivanbarbancon8750 id love if it was so, but the accounts from the South African F1s fighting Cuban Mig23s tell that the F1 was lacking in flying capabilities against Mig23. (Angola conflict)
Kinda unrelated to the video, but the french Tier 6-7 progression feels so weird, too many planes at the same BR. If they removed/added armament options for several planes that would open some gaps and make the progression more natural imo. Also if the Magic 2s were un-nerfed the Mirage 2000 should definitely go to 11.7 imo, along with the Tomcat and other few tier 7 planes...
And yet again, Defyn is suffering for our entertainment. Really enjoyed that last dogfight. I never have enough patience in this situations and i usually just die or get slammed.
I love this aircraft. My loadout is 2x2000 lb bombs, 2x500 lb pounds, 2xMagic 2s, and the 530E. I fly it like the su-25. Low and fast, strike a base, then pop up for some kills. I was able to grind the entire French tree in 5 days with it (yes I have a job. Yes, I was on Christmas vacation lol).
I’m going to try this and see how it works.
Edit: I don’t know how the fuck you managed to do it efficiently I get intercepted by either f14 f16 or mig 29.
What was your strategy? How did you fly it?
Yeah that’s a lie
@@furretthefuzzynoodle3896thanks u saved my money lol
Vertical spotting system through clouds is a major problem that for some reason gaijin refuse to fix
could be worse, like in GRB when the game actually gives u a lock, but still decides ure not allowed to fire your missile (from SPAA's) xD
And I keep thinking this is a major skill issue on my part
Bruh the number of times I get snuck up on in air rb is insane. U really gotta listen and pick out suspect engine noises coming in. Ends up forcing me to react without even seeing my opponent when they’ve been tracking me from 4+km away, and even by the time i hear their engine their silent IR missile is already in my cockpit. totally fair
the state of markers is now closer to SBEC than anything else. Sure, realism, but disappearing in yo face til 2km away? please, that's the maximum distance for bullets effectiveness and the average ir missile optimal launch distance.
Tbh I prefer no markers. I think actually having to spot the enemy properly rather than rely on some big ass marker takes more situational awareness and skill. Rendering is obviously the problem there though
Funny how irl the F1 could beat F5s in dogfights but in WT its worse then phantoms
That's probably also because the F-5s in War Thunder are still borked.
Fr? I didn’t think the F-1 was that maneuverable in the first place
@@christopherchartier3017 I don't think they were dogfighting more like turning to each other F1s and F5s dogfighting traditionally would have been rare simply because F1 had a better radar + better missiles F5s never carried radar missiles or really strong radars
Can we admire the fact that he did dogfight a J-7E with the F1C ????
I would have die after two turns with that lol
@@VWOCisfuckup me none cuz I don't have the F1 and the J7 either
Okay, but how for the love of god this plane sits at the same br as Mirage 2000C? In prop - aircraft terms it would be like Spitfire mk. 5 having same battle rating as Spitfire mk. 24 or something
Well, the Spitfire Mk Vc *IS* at the same BR as the Mk XVI, dispite the absolutely massive performance gap.
@@Bobspineable the a5c has magics aswell.....
@@shrekrecker The A-5C has Magic 1 not Magic 2's. Why does crap like that get upvoted.
@@JamesVDBosch because armament, same as here
@@Bobspineable us has all aspect at 10.0 and ussr at 9.7 so why does all aspect means 11.3 for france ? The F1s are at the same br as M2k and F-14 which is absolutely disgusting
These are really good videos. Great to learn what is good to buy, how to fly certain aircraft and general tips. It would be really cool to see a video, as someone who is fairly new to air RB in general, where you detail how you should move around the map. Not like a positioning guide, but more like "when is a good time to attack, what are your opportunities to engage and how to spot them, and where you should be in order to benefit your team the most." Something like that would be fantastic.
i spaded the techtree migare f1c after the patch and my winrate is only around like 35% in around 100 matches due to facing usa 11.7 everygame in a plane that can not carry at all
That fight at the end was one of the best I've seen on this channel, 2 great players one against another not making any big mistakes, too bad it had to end with a rearm missile but anyway well played for both
The 530s are the saddest missiles at 11.3
530 E are actually quite good. (ir one)
@@jblakemore I sadly know too well
Well the 530D is very good on the M2000C.
You got magic 2 to compensate, I will take 2 magic 2 over 4 rb24j any day of the week
Grinding modules with 530f is the most painful thing
Thank you soo much man, for all your help and advice.
At the beginning of the year I had no idea what I was doing in plane, watching your videos I finally got an idea of how to aim the guns and lineup shot, this was in ground RB.
over the last few months I've been going into Air RB and picking up to 3 kills on occasion.
I've been playing war thunder for 7 years and never understood dogfighting but your videos really made a difference.
7:54 thank you mother nature for being usefull, maybe my next motorcycle will be electric to save environment a little bit XD
Love your humour defyn
I've been flying the standard Mirage F1C recently. I've entirely given up on the radar missiles and now take 2x Magic II and 3x R530E and go full IR spam. I've personally had a lot more success with the aircraft playing it as an IR surprise delivery service. It is my experience that whatever theoretical advantage to hit-rate Super Matras have of the regular 530s is entirely cancelled out by having to lock the enemy, giving them warning and then maintain that lock and your attention for however long. Meanwhile once you fire off that 530E it demands nothing else from you. This does limit your effective engagement ranges significantly and certainly isn't meta, but nothing about the plane is meta in the first place. So I guess at least it's sort of fun and I no longer have to get frustrated at the missiles themselves getting notched (Or whatever else causes them to randomly lose track) whilst I hold a perfectly good lock on the enemy.
I really only radar missile in a downtier or if the enemy is tunnel visioned
Your sense of humour always hits me in the right spot, thanks for making us smile, and keep doing what you enjoy. (7:47)
Happy new year DEFYN, my wishes foremost to your health, then success!
I talismaned my tech tree F1C while I was grinding for the Mirage 2000C so I could familiarize myself with the missiles, but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head here. Like, it's not bad by any means, and I've managed to get a couple ace matches in it (very sorry for when it inevitably goes to 11.7 next patch because I had two good games in it), but when you have to spend the first half of the game on the deck, notching against F-14's, F-16's, F4's, etc., you're going to start pretty much every game at a disadvantage because you're, ya know, on the deck, at the side of the map, while the enemies have been able to secure the altitude above the center of the battlefield.
Thankfully the F-16s and Mig-29s are 12.0 now so the F1C can get some breathing room
If it goes down to let's day 10.7 it's going to be very fun to use
In a video from the summer (ish) you said you went to ride in the Ardennes, knowing you’re from the Netherlands I imagined you talked about bicycle riding, but today you’ve talked about motorcycles, soooo is your taste in airplanes similar to irl motorcycles ? You seem to like light airplanes with high energy retention, what would that translate to ? MT-09 ? Streetfighter ?
I ride a 2019 fireblade RR-SP and its my favourite bike other than the RRR-SP from 2021 but that isnt very workable as a daily bike
@@DEFYN well that works too ! Great choice ! Will we ever see a Defyn bike vid ?
If i ever actually get a camera set up that works yeah
I ride about 25000km a year so it's not like i don't use it enough
@@DEFYN That's a really nice bike.
@@DEFYN Damn, straight up liter bike, the CBR is insane
I loved this video so much, it's really motivational, and teaches us how gameness (the eagerness to win against all odds) can get you wherever you want. Well done Doof.
Nice one there!!! Last kill, that guy were amazing to....
5:47 so clean
TEC (guy that doesnt Understand and can't play this game on even mediocre level), said this jet was the best premium jet. Of course I disregard his opinion 99% the time
I almost just wanna by this thing just for the aesthetics of the plane, looks beautiful lol
The F1C looks sexy though that's for sure.
I liked this low volume atmospheric music, feels like it's playing in the cockpit
today i got my first sim kill
i was coming back from a failed napalm bombing on my su7 bmk, and im just rtb. but with corner of the eye i see a little plane flying almost exatly my way: its a fully loaded f5c going for a bomb run. poor guy understood i was on his tail last second, but to his luck he probably gets the rwr activated and starts turning. now to notice, aiming with a controller is VERY hard, but i get lucky and shoot down the guy. absolutely proud
hey by the way the shots you “missed” on the F-4E actually went through the plane without doing shit
Honestly I love the mig 29. At this point if you die my a radar missile it’s pretty much a skill issue. You can notch easily in the mig 29 from about 4 km and 3 km is cutting it pretty close to get one shot at anyway. Just cut afterburner if your going above Mach 1 and have an amazing time. If they’re close you will need to use chaff. Works every time. This thing is a beauty and can absolutely out turn anything in a low speed turn fight except for the f16 maybe. But that’s what those ERs are for. F16s no longer own the high ground 🤤. It is pretty fun to bully f14s with missiles too, and as long as you maintain closure, you’ll never lose the dogfight. Aim 54s may catch you by surprise but it’s pretty easy to dodge once you get used to ppl spamming 6 in the beginning of the match.
The R530E is a aim54 countermeasure
when I was playing the F1C, it was quite easy to get S530F kills simply by climbing and using top down aproach, where their RWR doesnt work.
now that F14s are preventing the opposite team to fly at any kind of altitude, and that for some obscure reason France is matched against USA every single time, its not possible anymore.
IRL it would have been the tomcat at 200meters and the Mirage at 5km
the issue is the S530F has gotten nerfed over time and you can literally chaff it with a single chaff pop without even moving its pretty damn sad
i rather bring 3 530Es than the Fs just because of the joy it brings me watching that slowass missile chase a panicking tomcat into a ratefight because he wont stop afterburning lol
@@richou5721 lol true
I know that the Kfir Canard is shit, but can you play it? it got a cool radar lead indicator.
I am going to cover all the tier 7 Premiums
Play the yak 15p
It's not the plane's fault that Gaijin seriously expects you to dogfight F16 in jets that are basically just flying busses stacked with missiles.
Top Tier air combat is an utter joke.
I still like the Mirage. It looks very beautiful too.
That's the only reason I suffer through France, the Mirages are beautiful
What motorcycle do you ride? :-)
2019 FIREBLADE SP
@@DEFYN Nice! I'm also on a Honda, 2019 VFR800X Crossrunner (to preserve my back :D)
12:40 big dumb J-7E. Always turn off the radar gun sight. It gives people RWR pings, and does nothing for you except take up space on your screen. I think they allow missile slaving to it now but, idk why you'd use it they still basically need to be right in front of you regardless.
I turn it on in dogfights
I'm gonna do something stupid and ask if it would be possible to get a video with you flying your favourite plane or something like a top 3 of them.
Doesn't matter what BR it is, I'm just curious to know what you prefer.
If Gaijin refuses to put planes at 13.0 to alleviate the compression, they could at LEAST move the F-16, MiG-29 to 12.0, and Mirage 2000, F-14 and MLD to 11.7. Maybe the EJ Kai could go to 11.7 as well since it gets Aim-9Ls now.
F1C could be very competitive if they just balance the plane right
They did this and it's not
Was considering getting this (I must be becoming fucking unhinged) but reason prevailed and I plopped a talisman on my Jag E and thank God for that epiphany.
this video made me laugh, u got a good sense of humor, Love your channel homie!
Gaijin repair costs seem to be such a meme, 20k for the j-7e and 14k for the f16? Balance by plane not by players. The fact that the TT variant of this is just under 15k is also a joke.
Funny thing is that JA37D have higher repair cost than MIG29 and F16 xD Guess IKEA is strong and Dorito is better than gen4 fighters.
Brilliant Defyn, great vidoes!
Hey defyn could you fly out the f4u-4?
Also, are american teams bad right now or is it probably just a skill issue?
American teams have always been bad. They are only good at top tier currently because of F-14 + F-16 + no top tier premium
@@H-cranky It really depends on the time of day and the day of the week though. During prime time for Europeans Germany often turns into America with how bad many of those players are.
if your talking props, generally USA always has bad teams, the planes require you to know how to energy fight, and with mostly 50 Cals as their main guns they also require good aim
new players usually go to the big 3, most commonly USA or Germany, and that causes a lot of new players to turn fight in American planes that aren't good turn fighters. the planes are good by themselves, they just don't work for people who are new. When I am playing props, I always assume a zero is more of a threat than a P-51, you don't need skill to constantly keep turning, a P-51 does that and they die.
It's nearly the same for jets to be honest, when most people are buying the AV-8A or A-10, they spend most of their time getting kills with good missiles, and when they finally get the jet they want: F-16, F-14, F-4, they have no idea how to maneuver well. 5 years ago this wasn't a problem, since no premiums had super good all aspect missiles that gets you an easy kill just by hitting some buttons.
Props for playing DnB in the background.
i got this plane in the tech tree expecting it to be bad but oh man it is painful
The R530E description cracked me up😂😂
Just more proof that you can tell us a plane sucks but you still have the skill to dumpster some people just because you know how to fly a gosh darn plane
It's kinda funny, I picked this thing up for no other reason than to grind French tech tree, first 3 games I got 4 kills. And I am a crap jet player, tbh. I guess it's just the difference between a normal player and a power gamer on the bleeding edge of meta....I enjoyed it well enough and it does what I wanted it to do: Gain RP.
3 of those kills were with the 530E's. Maybe I just got lucky and only had to fight potatoes even worse than I am. It could be a thing. LOL
That F-14 at about 7:30? Yeah, that wasn't the tree...that was the squirrels. Squirrels are OP. 😜
2000D-R1 is silly but fun in sim, it does have some unique advantages there. Only thing I can think of that fast with the super easy mode fly-by-wire, a thermal camera, up to four guided air-to-ground weapons two of which are powered, 2 all aspect IR missiles, and the same incredible radar as the 2000C. It's still fairly pointless.
By comparison the F1-Cs do not have fly by wire and if you pull hard you will instantly spin out. Quite recoverable, not F-14 flat-spin-o-matic status, but also much much easier to do.
Since they dont want to add the south african air tree to britain, they should have just used the Super Mirage F1 instead of this for france, atleast then it would have been a bit more unique with better mobility and R73’s….
Wait a minute, why that SL boost is so frickin low? Anyhow it might be better than an ADTW.
It's cuz it's a test drive
ADTW sucks balls as well so yeah
@@alanm1121 I screamin in confusion so bad when I've got 2 F16 and Tomcat chasing my ass with their 9Ls and Phoenix.
The fact that someone claimed that this is a better prem than the 21 bis or the 23 is insane
who claimed that?
@@NineSeptims tankenstein
@@shiprat7370 also European Canadian, but idk if he was trolling or not
This didn't age well... Good thing he's got a new video on this.
Omg that’s me in the video 6:10
Love the video.
First match tho, to save my ass from thinking I'm insane, there is some music playing right? Sick beats ngl
Ive had an ok experience spading the f1c tech tree, if you omit the radar missles for the gun pods ive had much more fun and success. The gun pods are only like 80kg each(unless they changed it) and ive gotten so many more kills this way. If you are tryna spade the f1c try it out, might work for you
I also got rid of the radar missiles for the gun pods. FAR superior experience. Go with 2 magic 2, 1 IR 530, and 2 gun pods. Plane still sucks but you'll suffer less.
The triple ir 530 build works too
when did you spade it tho
@@MF-vp9tc before the big patch, id say maybe 3 weeks ago
@@ScrotumScraper yea, when the « canon meta » like the f5e was still good
Rn it’s just impossible
I actually have a better winrate with the F1C compared to the Mirage 2KCS5 before getting magic 2's. The missiles make so much of a difference that the F1C is actually decent.
the missiles are decent, not the plane
@@MF-vp9tc that's what im saying though.
I’ve been looking to possibly buy this as I’ve started grinding the French tree since I’ve basically finished Japan (except for naval). Maybe this may finally mean I’ll get to use guided munitions for once in my life, since I’ve never used them before. Onto something else for Japan, they finally fixed the Kikka. After an eternity of being bugged, they actually fixed it.
Tankenstein seems to have a lot of bad takes, I just hope it's in good faith and not him trying to make an extra dollar.
Considering that he isn’t in Gaijin’s partner program I don’t think his bad takes are based on snail orders.
From what I’ve seen his air RB gameplay mainly consists of him flying out a plane with good guns and taking 4 people head on, killing 3 and trading with the 4th, his commentary is generally “4 kills in a match that’s pretty good”.
You mentioned about turning radar off, which radar is it exactly? I primarily grinding with F5C
Bro why does he have a Talisman on the F1C?
Don't question it
He probably bought it by accident
I bought it because i knew I had to do a decent amount of games with it to get a good opinion when it came out. Grinding France blows so every bit helps
Love your content. I am wondering if you have the Bf109 Z and If you'd make a review on it it'd be interesting to see
Is there any good French jet plane at all?
Who was the one that said it was a jack-of-all-trades? I bet it was European Canadian
I think so, but I remember Tankestein saying something similar as well.
Both unironically called it the best teir 7 prem
@@shiprat7370 tankenstein said every rank 7 premium was like 7-8/10 on his ranking score
@@fate3071 he's clearly a shill no way around it lol
It fits his play style.
Take a look at "improved" flight model of Fw 190 A5. It's now the worst 4.7 fighter one can find. A5U2 and A5U12 also got ruined in the process.
I heard these got a flight control buff since you made this video - worth a second look Defyn?
Do you think its worth GE'ing at least the R-60Ms and flares on the MiG-29? Or what is your opinion on stock grind in general? Happy new years btw
Flares 100% on any toptier that's just how it's been designed tbh
R60ms are nice but not as important
Happy new year :)
5:40 you won a 1v2 this plane is clearly amazing and worthy of 11.3 maybe even 11.7 material stop spreading fake news…
Is the new Chinese premium any good? I’m waiting to see if it goes on discount?
It’s a one trick pony but it performs the trick well. First: it is NOT a J-7E. You don’t have the wings to pull the same crap. With that out of the way, you can get a good win rate and KD ratio by just orbital striking people from 40k feet with PL-5b. Most people won’t see it coming and you get easy kills. If someone notices you though, you will die. You don’t have all aspect missiles so you HAVE to go defensive and at high altitudes you will turn like a cruise ship. You might not have time to notch properly.
TLDR: Stay high and orbital bomb people but be inconspicuous. You get focused down you will die.
Basically MiG-21MF with PL-5B or Magic 1, decent but shouldn’t be 11.0 imo
@@flyingtower so are the majic 1 missils not better than the pL5?
@@Bennyy85 The 5b has a very long range but a short booster. It is a good missile because there is no long smoke trail for people to see and flare.
The 7 has a very good pull but it is super flare hungry and extremely short range. You need to be within 2km to hit anything. It just decelerates so fast. When you are that close, people see you and just flare it.
That last match gave me anxiety lol
I would say that if Mirage F1 gets a proper PD radar Matra530 (the one without any character) can be good in 11.3, but sadly Gaijin says NO MTI radar is not a PD one🤣.
The Kfir Canard is still the superior choic
I have that feeling that the F1 don’t get the love it deserve.. maybe because I’m French, don’t know, but I often go back to the F1C and always end up with 4 or 5 kills per game with this one… a score I can have with a Mirage-2000 or a MiG-29
You just need to manage your missiles for when they can be utile (and not to shoot magic 2 head on at 1.5km for example) and learn to lead the guns…
I think the f1c is kinda good in a bad way if that makes sense, you are forced to play well and you can spam flaires.
This thing is sad even in full downtiers. I'd take the F-5C or the SMT over this thing any day of the week.
The Mirage 2000C did get a top speed buff so if someone is gonna get this to grind it out then I kinda get it tho.
Riding a motorcycle is already saving the environment with the incredible gas mileage and the inevitable donation of your organs one day to some treehugger maybe.
Any dutch or belgians with a squadron ?
Honestly debating getting the Mirage-F1C-200, mainly because I wanna get the mirage-2000 and the Milan is pure hell to grind with and I do know the F1C isn’t the best jet and the magic 2s are its only pros.
How do you turn off your radar?
what camos does it have?
I love the F1. I do pretty damn good in it.
"This plane sucks" watch me get 10 kills.
The F1 shot down an F14 IRL and can’t even shoot anything down in WT
Finally someone agrees with me calling this thing garbage
Hey can I just ask, how is your username pronounced? I have a friend that says deafen, but I've always said define.
Why is there music
This can only happen because air right now should be minimum 13.0 for the top br
But hey it can supercruise 🙃
tankenstein was the one who made the jack of all trades comment btw
Damn that fight was good even know it was unfair
idk mate maybe with the new top dogs it's harder but I had a 67% win rate with the F1C out of 131 games before the patch with 1.6KD. Sure the radar missile are easily chaffed but not everyone has enough braincell to do it. Magic 2s are just the best IR missile after the R27s and will ignore flares completely in rear aspect shots unless they pull some crazy maneuvers with it.
yes but you will literally get rolled in any dogfight
magic 2s have been nerfed so badly they flare like r60s now
@@hectormeynell8792 when was the nerf ?
Used em less than 2 weeks ago last time and had hella success with em
@@tinihawk for the recent apex predator update. Not sure if it’s intentional or not
@@hectormeynell8792 that’s false the Magic 2s had no such nerf.
can ya do a vid about explaing radars that would be really helpful
I have been flying the F-4E recently and it feels similar to the Mirage F1, having slightly better radar missiles but a much worse radar with similarly poor performance.
I fly both (in sim). The Mirage is bad at low speed turning fights because it designed for high speed turning. While the F4E is the opposite alongside with the Mig21BIS/Smt. In sim i had no problems with outturning 21's/23's and phantoms. All i had to do is maintain some speed
7:55 *LMFAOOO!!!*
Love the music :D
Actually 2000D is really good AC for cas in ground rb.
Obviously 27K is still best cancer you can face in ground rb but 2000D with two nords and lgbs just enough to make suffering for grounds unit as well.
Guarantee ground four kills just like the loadout you shown in this vid and the basic performance which is based on 2000C are insane compare to other shitty ass french high tier jets.
Also 530E was good missile when release with 3C but now a days just use like 9B to make enemy manuver to reduce their energy.
When bike video?
i don't understand why in the last BR change Gaijin put F1s 0.3 up... They should go back on this.
Jack of no trades
Very cool!)
Tankenstien getting hit hard
Gaijin nerfed the flight perf of The F1 to ashes from the very first release of F1C. and they never listen to proofs documents i sent them....
the only thing that could make the F1C/CT good is to put his proper flight performances.... but gaijin will never, cause it's french (sadly)
i worked on F1C, and it's an absolute beast, even today ! so sad gaijin sucks at whatever is not USA/USSR/GERMANY
u can strike Germany from that so many wrong things on the latest german additions its only sad
The Mirage F-1 never was a beast. It wasn't ever good. The best that could be said about it was that it was capable and cheap. When introduced it was worse than the early MiG-23s, of which we have the BN as an example. All of the Ms are the last examples of the MiG-23 and are the best MiG-23s. Compared to every gen 4 fighter it has worse radar with worse avionics and a significantly worse airframe. It was designed to be a cheap gen 3.5 and an attempt to get a number of sales as an export product with the oncoming release of the gen 4 fighters. However poor timing with the international sale of the F-16A (a gen 4 fighter) prevented it from really getting many sales. This pissed off Dassault management. They thought it unfair because the money they put into it wasn't going to be returned to them. Their response was to make the Mirage 2000. An aircraft specifically designed to take on the F-16 in a 1v1 and win.
When a number of countries did mock fights between the Mirage F-1 and F-16As that couldn't be fitted with AiM-7s Dassault thought that the F-1 could win the fights thanks to its BVR capability that the F-16s didn't have. However the F-1 was using an old and outdated radar system that was fairly well known. The F-16 pilots knew this and flew to the F-1 in a manner in which its older radar could not lock onto the F-16. Once at the merge the newly designed airframe with FBW just effortlessly outperformed the F-1 in every metric. Why? The F-1 also had an old and outdated airframe design being a Mirage III with a standard wings and tail set up rather than the delta design. The best you can hope for in terms of buffs to the F-1 is taking it from really bad to it might be okish. The F-1 was just a bad plane and was, for the most part, outperformed by the Mirage III that it was based on.
Watch Growling Sidewinder's video called Was The Viper The Right Choice for a more accurate F-1 model against a simulated F-16A. Yes, it is a F-16C airframe instead but in regards to WVR performance the F-16C is actually notably worse than the F-16A and they flew the F-16C under the limitations of the F-16A.
@@rainsilent I’m talking IRL dude… I know the F-16 is a beast, but the time F1C was released, it was very competitive. Its flight performances, once again, are very good. DCS is not 100% true. Very close, however. And still, in GS UA-cam, F1 is very capable of dogfighting. But in game here, F1 can’t dogfight mig 23. When IRL mig 23 was crap.
So yes, you have some points there. But sill I worked on this beast. Still I know what I’m talking about. My mentor in French Air Force had 2000+ flight hours on it ;)
And again, I’m talking about FLIGHT performance, not weaponry. I was weapon technician IRL, and on that I can only agree that it’s weaponry is not that good (except DEFA 552/3 - dmg in game are freakin hilarious though)
@@iluminas2866 yup that true, however still favorised over France, or Italy
@@ivanbarbancon8750 id love if it was so, but the accounts from the South African F1s fighting Cuban Mig23s tell that the F1 was lacking in flying capabilities against Mig23.
(Angola conflict)
Kinda unrelated to the video, but the french Tier 6-7 progression feels so weird, too many planes at the same BR. If they removed/added armament options for several planes that would open some gaps and make the progression more natural imo. Also if the Magic 2s were un-nerfed the Mirage 2000 should definitely go to 11.7 imo, along with the Tomcat and other few tier 7 planes...