I posted this in responce to a comment made in another thread and feel it deserves it's own. This is why I shoot down J-10's way more than they get me.
Don't drop you flares right away and use rear view to see when missles are launched. When you actually see missles heading your way flares get dropped not before. Also barrel roll, not aileron but barrel, missles just go all around and can't react like that. To do a barrel roll take the stick and pull it to a bottom corner, viola they missed.
If I was chasing you, opten you'd be an easy kill and this is why. I'm right on your a$$ in bomb mode and I switch to missles but do not fire I then wait for you to drop flares and I don't have to wait long. I then switch back to bomb mode, now you think you lost me or it was a stinger site and fly nice and straight at which time I unload guns at you and switch to missles and knock off just two off as you've no flares and are going straight, bye bye. Sometimes you make it real easy and slow down for a gun run on a chopper and I don't even switch to missles and I pwn you with guns in an F-35 on Wake. Go me.
However, some pilots are not idiots and start bobbing and weaving. You can tell if he knows what he's doing because he keeps running even though I'm in bomb mode and his warning lights aren't going off. In this case I will break off as he'll beat me in a turning fight so I go to 700ft and head to where you are about to rearm or repair as I most likely hit you with guns and possibly one missle. I stay inverted to see better roll out when I spot you rince and repeat. This tactic works and has turned the F-35 into a favoured A/C for me as it's also an exceptional ground attack fighter.
Final tip, blow apart stinger and AA sites first. They are easy kills for a gun run even at speed. Get to know your maps.
Don't drop you flares right away and use rear view to see when missles are launched. When you actually see missles heading your way flares get dropped not before. Also barrel roll, not aileron but barrel, missles just go all around and can't react like that. To do a barrel roll take the stick and pull it to a bottom corner, viola they missed.
If I was chasing you, opten you'd be an easy kill and this is why. I'm right on your a$$ in bomb mode and I switch to missles but do not fire I then wait for you to drop flares and I don't have to wait long. I then switch back to bomb mode, now you think you lost me or it was a stinger site and fly nice and straight at which time I unload guns at you and switch to missles and knock off just two off as you've no flares and are going straight, bye bye. Sometimes you make it real easy and slow down for a gun run on a chopper and I don't even switch to missles and I pwn you with guns in an F-35 on Wake. Go me.
However, some pilots are not idiots and start bobbing and weaving. You can tell if he knows what he's doing because he keeps running even though I'm in bomb mode and his warning lights aren't going off. In this case I will break off as he'll beat me in a turning fight so I go to 700ft and head to where you are about to rearm or repair as I most likely hit you with guns and possibly one missle. I stay inverted to see better roll out when I spot you rince and repeat. This tactic works and has turned the F-35 into a favoured A/C for me as it's also an exceptional ground attack fighter.
Final tip, blow apart stinger and AA sites first. They are easy kills for a gun run even at speed. Get to know your maps.
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