I see what you mean now mb
My statement was wrong be a tiny bit. The Rafale weighs 9550kg empty and produces 14660kfg total. That equals a T/W of 0.001 greater than the EFT if you do the math of (8670*2)/11300
The Rafale currently in game given the stats has a higher T/W at sea level, end of
Yeah… it shouldn’t
Weird.
Well I didn’t believe it either until I realized mabey the EFT is not as Hyped up thrust wise as I thought. Given the primary sources of both to form what we have in game this is the reality and fact of the matter until something else comes up. Unless you want to lie to yourself and wear a tin foil hat because “no the French can’t make a good fighter jet!, this is impossible! And M-m-my Typhoon is British and has such strong enigines? Gaijin is clearly gimping the typhoon of its true powaaaaaa!!!” Not saying this is anyone hear btw, but if you feel offended that says a lot lol.
Isn’t there a brochure that directly states 10995 for the eft?
Although I do agree with the current weight as it closely corresponds to le funny manual anyways.
Rafale being stronger than the eurofighter in terms of thrust to weight isn’t surprising anyways, eurofighter in the esr d requirements was supposed to weight 10.5 tons, and it ended up ballooning to over 11 tons due to future creep (which btw makes me question the validity of the eurofighter flight model being modeled off esr d requirements - how on earth is it supposed to keep the same performance while being around 700 kg heavier)
Well Gaijin have stated time and time again publicly that they would NEVER use values from a classified documents, and that anyone who posts a restricted document would be permanently banned (pretty much without right to appeal). So it would be highly hypocritical if nothing else.
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Or the fact that IF the document in question was being used to model the EFT under the assumption that gaijin had seen them, then they are willingly mismodelling aspects of the EFT covered in said document quite significantly and to the detriment of its performance as a combat platform…
Overall its a horrible argument they’re using, and not one we should even be having on the forums considering their rules
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Anyway, typhoon weight discussion should go either in the battlefield thread or dedicated EFT threads
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EFT subject?
here: Eurofighter vs Rafale battlefield - #1019 by Flame2512
and btw,… WRTI gives EF-2000 for 11220 kg.