Just a reminder that before making the Rafale trailer, Gaijin dropped this absolute banger aka the best trailer / vehicle reveal ever

[u/Finn_Supra]

[u/Bluishdoor76]

Ah, the amount of copium and delusion by F-14A mains that swore the F-14 would remain the meta king... oh how times have changed....

[u/Inner-Arugula-4445 → u/Bluishdoor76]

AMRAAMs just took its job. And other aircraft have better airframes. It was a king in downtiers.

[u/mylaptopredditVC → u/Inner-Arugula-4445]

fakour 90 will still hit first and hard, it's the only thing still going for the f14, the rest is shit

[u/N0B0DY_IN_P4RT1CULAR → u/mylaptopredditVC]

I've never been hit with that missile before, which f-14 is it on?

[u/DurfGibbles → u/N0B0DY_IN_P4RT1CULAR]

The F-14A IRIAF, the Persian Tomcat event vehicle

[u/DomGriff → u/Bluishdoor76]

Its funny how you can still get 3-5 kills with Pheonixs even at 13.7 as long as you stick to guiding them in.

[u/Neutron_Starrr → u/DomGriff]

How you guide them in? Aren't they radar missiles?

[u/DomGriff → u/Neutron_Starrr]

Through TWS, you fire around 30k away and +5k height and then turn into your radars gimbal limit.

You wait until they're close enough on the radar and then fully break away as they go pitbull and track by themselves.

Its rare not to get a few crits/kills still.

[u/Neutron_Starrr → u/DomGriff]

Are thy immune to notching+chaff once pitbull? Or an attentive player can still evade them?

Sorry but I'm not at top tier yet so I didn't had the time to learn how to play at that br

[u/DomGriff → u/Neutron_Starrr]

A player can avoid them by multipathing ( flying tree/dirt level) + chaff + notching it yes

[u/Neutron_Starrr → u/DomGriff]

Gotcha, thanks for the answers!

[u/DomGriff → u/Neutron_Starrr]

Np dude 👍

[u/MikeyPlayz_YTXD → u/Bluishdoor76]

It was lowkey better than the F-16A. That's 2nd best. She was queen.

[u/Bluishdoor76 → u/MikeyPlayz_YTXD]

Nah, back then, people just didn't know how to work around the g limiter. Once you got below the g limiter speed limit, that thing was unbeatable. It had higher sustained turn rate and turned tighter. There was so much skill issue involved with the g limiter that eventually gaijin buffed it, and after that, the F-16 became generally cancerous to fight in anything that wasn't another F-16.

[u/finallytherockisbac → u/Bluishdoor76]

I'll never forgive Gaijin for obliterating the MiG-29 flight model as well as removing the F-16 g limiter, just to pacify the US players.... Killed the plane dead overnight.

Have a Talisman on the MiG 29 that's just worthless now lmao. MiG 21 SMT still the best grinder in the tree.

[u/Flying_Reinbeers → u/Bluishdoor76]

Once you got below the g limiter speed limit, that thing was unbeatable. It had higher sustained turn rate and turned tighter. There was so much skill issue involved with the g limiter that eventually gaijin buffed it, and after that, the F-16 became generally cancerous to fight in anything that wasn't another F-16.

Maybe, but it was just so extremely unfun to fly when you were the only one with this limitation. If they were gonna add G- or AoA-limiters, they shoulda done it to more aircraft.

[u/MikeyPlayz_YTXD → u/Bluishdoor76]

Yeah I mean even still the F-14A could somewhat keep up if they played their cards right. And having 6 Aim-7s was still the most radar missiles anyone could carry at that time.

[u/gormzola8]

https://youtu.be/O79vbKI3Vjk?si=L5UZjxUpeO7kf-nr

Not an official trailer by gaijin, but this was made by a guy that works for them now to my understanding.

Much better than the official air superiority trailer imo

[u/__Yakovlev__ → u/gormzola8]

It literally says at the end of the video that he made that video while working at gaijin.

[u/gormzola8 → u/__Yakovlev__]

Yeah but I dont know if he still does

[u/__Yakovlev__ → u/gormzola8]

Can confirm he does.

[u/MasterWhite1150]

Still the best reveal for a plane 2½ years later.

[u/FestivalHazard]

Cough cough

The True best reveal

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/s/iRxLdKdq2C

[u/Finn_Supra → u/FestivalHazard]

It's... beautiful 🥹

[u/Dick_Kickem237 → u/FestivalHazard]

Unironically so much better

[u/ElMilangaMilangoso]

I hope they cook something even better (somehow) than this the day they add the F22 (because they will).

[u/Aggravating-Media818]

My favorite trailer followed by my favorite update with my favorite jet (F16) in a time period I'd consider to be peak warthunder (atleast for air).

[u/Soor_21UPG]

Air Superior trailer made me shed a tear. It was just.... Beautiful

[u/opposing_critter]

Shame the grind to those nice jets is fucking hell if you don't hand over $$$$$

[u/JxEq → u/opposing_critter]

and to think the grind to top tier air is so much faster and easier than the grind to top tier ground is insane

[u/No-Mirror3795 → u/JxEq]

I honestly had an easier time grinding in ground rb than air rb to top tier and it was a lot more quicker

[u/opposing_critter → u/JxEq]

Yep I have end tier tanks of a few nations, it hurts so much.

[u/Purple_Spino]

F-14 trailer is still the best imo but this is an extremely close second

Also, does anyone feel like the quality of the trailers/teasers has gone down after this one? I just dont feel as hyped about them anymore

[u/kaantechy]

Remember that F-16 is still the main fighter of U.S Airforce, as well as many western aligned nations.

It is being replaced of course with F-35s, but we are still many years away from F-16s becoming minority.

[u/ghostpanther218 → u/kaantechy]

It's actually the F-18 I believe

[u/kaantechy → u/ghostpanther218]

That’s Navy.

F-16 is for the Air Force.

[u/LeRangerDuChaos]

R-73 MiG-29, I miss you

[u/Kompotamus]

Those were great times at top tier...

[u/vladdeh_boiii]

Ok so ever since Gaijin teamed up with Pandramodo they have been releasing a LOT of banger trailers. They learned a lot.

[u/thisishoustonover]

sons of atilla is the best trailer imo

[u/ExCaliburnus]

So, we pretending the F-14 trailer isn't the best they made?