[TrashMan]

What, you think a Tomcat can turn inside a single-engine single-seat aircraft?

No.
Of course there are more manouverable craft, but the Tomcat isn't/wasn't sluggish. It's farely agile.

It's liek saying that the Perseus is sluggish, because the Loki can turn faster.

[Paladin327]

roguevalkyrie shakes his head with an amused smile as he counts the loops this discussion has gone through. " From discussing whether or not Freespace has planet-based starfighters to discussing the strengths and weakness of my Favorite Terran FS1 fighter and some of it's FS2 terran counterpart to discussing strengths and weaknesses of FS interceptors and RL Interceptors to comparing manuverability of RL interceptors to single engine fighters.

just another day at HLP

[S-99]

I never cared much for the valkyrie. Fs1 touted it more as a superiority fighter than an interceptor. Fs1 training missions didn't show you how to target bombs and all that good stuff that's handy when you're flying intercept. I didn't get the idea to use bomb targeting until i went across the fs2 interceptor training missions where they actually gave you some very good ideas when flying an interceptor.

Fs1 randomly hands me an interceptor, i treat it exactly as a fighter until i discover it is an interceptor. In which case i regard the valkyrie only good for intercepting for it's weak ass hull and shields. I never used the valkyrie at all until i discovered it's real purpose as an interceptor in fs2 training. Aside from that it wasn't much better than the serapis, so hell if i want to fly with it as a fighter. I much better like the perseus. It actually can fight, and is awesome at intercepting.

The short answer to the valkyrie for me is that a tool is more effective when you know how to use it.