No that’s operationally dry with the gun
The pylons on harrier 2 weigh 788 pounds
But create a drag index of yes
Harrier 1 gun pods (both of them with 260 rounds of ammo) weigh 900 lbs
12,300+900=13,200
Just look at it at face value too
Like the harrier 1 literally sustains 2G more then the harrier 2
what? thats hardly a fair comparison then, doesnt FA 2 not have guns built in?
No
Pods
But most of the time it carries missiles only
It still comes out closer to 14,000 pounds dry with gun pods if you want to make a perfectly fair comparison
A ton lighter
remove gunpods from both, a loaded GAU-12 pod weighs 1200+lb
If this was the case then it would gain speed at that G loading. You are probably misinterpreting the chart or not providing the full context.
15,300 vs 13,200 roughly
This plus what I just showed is everything that document has on it.
“Pilot must not maneuver beyond the lateral oscillation point”
We don’t know your drag values and what have you either.
At 350-400 knots the harrier SEP is 24,000 ft/min and that’s a given value at sea level
At that time they were not supposed to go beyond 15 degrees AOA
Wait up ik what you did
You might have used 14 degrees AOA for the weight of 16,000 lbs 17,211
6.2G vs about 6G for the same AOA
An additional 0.2G would not matter. Document doesn’t specify what ADD is measuring either.
but your document from earlier said 13850 was the dry weight. and 15300 still seems awfully high for an aircraft that made heavy use of composites to reduce weight
Airstream direction detector
It’s measuring AOA on the probe
That’s the dry weight with pylons and drop tanks mate I don’t know how much more I need to say that
The radar in the sea harrier weighs just 86 kg, less then 200 pounds
And what is the datum of the prove vs the chord line of the wing?
it does not say that. point out exactly where it says that, basic English says the dry weight is being added to the other weights.
weighs like 145kg
Blue fox doesn’t but I don’t have a 100% figure on vixen
One sec I’ll pull out the ODM
thats my bad, i thought we were talking about the FA 2. what i could find for blue vixen says 145kg
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Regardless the math says that your interpretation of the document is implausible.
Right…
15 degrees was literally the highest allowed
Use that if you must for 400 knots
The wing is actually slightly canted down relative the the aircraft datum
And the wing has a slight tip twist at further sections of the span