I-16 tactics against ME-109?

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by M3-SRT8

Yup.

Hug the Deck, and try to get into a classic turning dogfight.

Pray the BF-109 doesn't zoom away from you and do a Hit and Run.

Long odds, I'd say.

LJB

Isn't it "LBJ" () Anyway, you really just want to keep it below and around 5,000 ft. Because then if a 109 does try to do a hit and run attack, he better make sure he's going into a shallow dive, or he'll hit the deck! That actually happened when I was flying the I-16. The 109 came up behind me, fired a couple shots that missed, and he went screaming towards the ground, erupting in a mangled wreckage of metal and burning oil!!