F-100 Super Sabre

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F-100 Super Sabre
F-100 Super Sabre.png
General Info
RoleMedium Fighter
Hangar level2
Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
Durability▰▰▱▱▱▱
Speed▰▰▱▱▱▱
Agility▰▰▰▱▱▱
Traitsnone
Base Stats
Hitpoints135
Top speed1299 km/h
Acceleration45 m/s²
Turn rate35 °/s
Ideal turning speed648 km/h
Afterburner fuel16 s

A Medium Fighter from the late 1950s. With good agility and a mix of heat-seeking missiles and rocket pods, it is a fierce short-range fighter.

— In-game description

The F-100 Super Sabre is a medium fighter from the late 1950s. With its sleek, swept-wing design and powerful engine, the F-100 provides good agility, allowing pilots to execute sharp turns and evasive maneuvers with ease. Armed with a lethal arsenal of heat-seeking missiles, rocket pods and precision cannons, the F-100 is a formidable adversary in short-range combat, capable of delivering devastating blows to enemy aircraft.

Loadout

The F-100 Super Sabre comes with a mix of Missile short range icon.png Heat-seeking icon.png ×4 heat-seeking missiles, Rockets high capacity icon.png Unguided icon.png ×38 light rockets and an Cannon precision internal icon.png Cannon precision icon.png internal precision cannon. The F-100 Super Sabre also comes with Flares icon.png ×3 flares.

Type Max Damage

(DPS)

Ideal Range

(km)

Reticle Range

(km)

Spin-up Time

(s)

Spread Overheat Time

(s)

Ammo Armor Piercing
Cannon precision icon.png Precision cannon 211 0.6 1.0 0 very low 5.8 none


Guidance Range Type Range

(km)

Quantity Damage Speed

(km/h)

Turn Rate

(°/s)

Lock Angle

(°)

Lock Time

(s)

Heat-seeking icon.png Heat-seeking missile Short range 2.7 4 75 3240 15 7 1.3
Type Range

(km)

Quantity Damage Speed

(km/h)

Blast Radius

(m)

Rate of Fire

(r/s)

Unguided icon.png Light rocket 1.5 38 30 3420 8 9.0

Special Ability

The F-100 Super Sabre has a special ability called Special gun cooling crafted.png Gun Cooling. When equipped and triggered, which instantly removes all the heat from any cannons and reduces the overheating rate by 50% for a short period of time. There is a cool down period between uses.

Veteran tips

The F-100 Super Saber, at a low hangar level, has a strong afterburner. Its speed provides an asset in Air Superiority. Its internal precision cannons are particularly strong. If they are to over heat, a pilot can trigger the special ability of Gun Cooling to immediately remove all heat and allow continued fire. Its rocket loadout, although lower quantity, can provide some devastating head-on attacks in the hands of a skilled pilot. It is an all-around performer for dog fighting and Air Superiority. It has just the right amount of durability to provide survivability.

Trivia

The F-100 Super Sabre was the first operational aircraft in United States Air Force inventory capable of exceeding the speed of sound in level flight. In-game, the F-100 Super Sabre appears to be equipped with a pair of LAU-3/A rocket launchers.

Paints

The F-100 Super Sabre has 4 different paints available, including the default.

Name Unlock requirement Rarity Supports Decals Image
Fighting Fifty-Fifth Default

Common

Yes Paint-fighting-fifty-fifth-swatch.png
Boneyard
Gold-icon.png

65

gold

Uncommon

Yes Paint-boneyard-swatch.png
Silver Knight
Gold-icon.png

99

gold

Rare

No Paint-silver-knight-swatch.png
The Hun
Gold-icon.png

99

gold

Rare

Yes Paint-the-hun-swatch.png