The Su-27S Flanker Has A Present For You 

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.

Ah yes, the Gesushi 30mm gun

this man has never died in air rb

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

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

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

The Su-27 was done as dirty if not worse so than the SMT was. They nerfed the Oswalds efficiency number by ~33% while buffing the F-15's by more than that. Currently the 27's numbers are ~0.41 meaning all ti literally does is bleed speed, anything you do it bleeds. Meanwhile actual scientific calculations done on it have the Oswalds efficiency numbers ~0.71. This plane is hella underperforming on energy retention that it is actually unreal how badly they fucked it over. Meanwhile US planes are STILL overperforming after months (UFO-16) and now they buffed the F-15 to be pulling over 4 degrees/sec of AoA than it should be. Russian Bias am I right?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

1:37 those cuts are just genuinely made

the poor FM of the mig29 and flanker are cause of the whiney little US mains.

Based Indonesian cameuflage

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

Spoiler alert, this is the least maneuverable su27 in the su27 family, so imagine what is coming next

the 3:57 caught me offguard ngl

F-15 RAAAAAAAAAH

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.

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.

why aren't the 73s merged into one group? it was annoying on mig29s aswell

Defyn never fails to fill me up

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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?

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

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

Flanker’s fight mode is completely fucked over by gaijin. Flanker should be an excellent rate fighter, but it can’t rate fight anyone in game

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

Ракету ?

Just wait to see, gaijin is going to buff the Su-27 to make the FM good, and then american mains are going to start crying that is OP "muh RuSsIaN BiAs", and then they are going to absolutely nerf it into the oblivion while making the F-15 absolutely OP, just like they did with the Mig-29s and F-16s.

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.

There's a bunch of Americans in these comments making it insufferable.

bro is definetly dutch (not 100% sure ngl)

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

quite sad this is not the God of dogfights

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.

Are you gonna make a video about j11?

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

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.

Gotta love that Indonesian Air Force skin on the Flanker

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

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.

Here before the butthurt "russian bias" reddit crowd

Su on deez

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

defyn rocking the indonesian air force skin

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

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

Certified dookie dumper

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

aparently at low speeds it performs worse than it should, and same in dogfights

Flanker gameplay looks hella boring tbh

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

6:05 damn, looks very cinematic

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)

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

Nice Indonesian Air Force Camo 😁

Bro What a war thuner skin It is Su-27S Flanker in From TNI AU Indonesia?

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

The SU-27 is more than capable in a low speed dogfight while aircraft like the F-15 or F-16 are better in a high speed dogfight. Both excel at dogfighting when at a speed they’re comfortable with.

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

New planes should be 12.7, 11.3 is again unplayable

The Eurofighter is such a good jet IRL just because it was designed specifically to counter highly maneuvrable Russian jets, the Su-27 Mig-29 pair. American mains cried so hard the su 27 its just a missle bus. Jesus fucking christ

The FM is dogshit, yes this thing should bleed a lot of energy (it's huge) but the flankers can all pull crazy AoA not represented at all in game. On top of that, the thing has more thrust than an F-15 by a decent margin but somehow accelerates far worse despite being a cleaner design? The thing doesn't have much additional weight over the F-15, so what the hell is going on with its FM? (It was an Su-27 that took all of the F-15's FAI records)

At 3:01 you have a ground target locked or marked or something? What command is that to do that

Oh, color me surprised, that's an Indonesian Air Force livery.

I really wish the F-15 was the missile bus and the su-27 got the chance to shine as a dogfighter, even if that meant temporarily nerfing it with worse and less missiles than it currently has. To me it just doesn't make sense that the F-15 has this role. Maybe they plan on making later models appropriate to the missile bus it should be or maybe theyre trying to balance the kind of aircraft in the trees. All in all I'm just a little disappointed.

Day 4 of asking for the American spitfire LF Mk IXc

Icl this game ain’t fair, r27er is only a single year older than aim120 but ofc it wasn’t added coz soviets just gotta be the strongest

PLS defny give the su 27 for me 🥹 i not haver su 27 🥹😭

using airbrake in this jet seems to take away like 3-4Gs of turn its awful lol. also the wings got nerfed and now they have the same oswald efficiency number (drag coefficient) as flaps down, when flaps are up xD

Meat reveal when?

I miss Spitflyer, wonder what happened to him

Radar range on the russian planes really hurts in sim mode

Guess who just got 2 more missel slots

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i thought the su27 was supposed to be a very good dogfighter

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

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.

Me watching this knowing I'll never get it

1:37 ummm wtf just happened 🤣🤣🤣

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

Day 1 of asking Defyn to hit: My wife

Play it in sim, i have heard it’s better there

Nice Indonesian Airforce skin defyn

i think the reason soviet planes have worse maneuverability than US planes is because of instructor limit, gaijin don't know how to make these "supermaneuverability" work with their game instructor, so they simply limit the control at higher speed, you can see the elevator barely move at high speed

I don't understand why comments are thinking that US planes are missile busses. Like yes, they do carry lots of missiles, but so do russian planes. Yes, russian planes are made to be manouverable gen 4 fighers, but so are US planes. The only missile bus currently fielded by a major country is the chinese J-20. Eagles fare great in dogfights, Vipers fare even better in dogfights, Hornets have awesome low speed nose authority (aka do great in dogfights), The f-14 is soort of a missile bus but still has great dogfighting ability with its wings out for its age. Like someone explain to me why a russian plane should be more manouverable at all aspects than an american plane. No, Flankers are for 1 circles, Eagles are for 2 circles. That's how its always been.

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

If you think the Su-27 is a beast, wait until you see the Su-37 Terminator in the next update.

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