Yup. It’s honestly funny how there are people saying “EFT will only be good cus it’s going to fight against opponents “”“30+ years””“” older" (even though most of its opponents are going to be only slightly older or slightly younger than it, disregarding the airframes themselves), when it will come to the game nerfed as hell via BOL, syb-systems, etc.
I am personally expecting Gaijin to only add the earliest possible Block, i.e Block 2, which was part of the Initial Operational Capability production run, rather than Block 5 or T2 Block 10/15 which would fit the meta far better in terms of both A2A and A2G.
Fun fact: early German EFTs did not even have rear MAW… sooo it will be real fun to see how Gaijin handles that.
From gunjob…
Not to mention they are not even pyrotechnic but pyrophoric, significantly more effective than something you could find in “large” flares on flanker
But if he cant force devs to fix it… we certainly cant
there are 2 towed decoys.
so if it gets hit then you got a second one. question is if a missile would even hit it or fly near it and not detonate because the radar return isnt big enough for the fuse
Seems like its not even quaranteed they’d hit the TRD unless they had home-on-jam functionality in which case it poses no threat to the aircraft whilst you still have two.
Couple that with mountains of chaff from BOL and the Britecloud decoys and well… you might be untouchable in bvr.
well it depends on how or if jamming will be modeled.
look at dcs for example. jamming just makes it so that you dont know the distance to your target but know perfectly well in which direction you have to look to see it
I still don’t know what the test characteristics are, but mine resulted in 121 seconds for F-15E full internal fuel, 8 AIM-120s. And not brakes off, but throttle up [no real change from 2nd test].
Yeah unfortunately we don’t know the parameters in which the typhoon did it outside of it being a full air to air load. I recall seeing fuel tanks being part of a full missile fit somewhere tho. It’s possible typhoon isn’t accelerating to a certain speed before climbing and instead doing the pitch up into climb straight from take off scenario
Question your F-15E climb what parameters did you use to get to 10450m? As in did you accelerate to Mach 1 then manage your angle of climb to maintain a Mach 1 climb or did you zoom climb? Usual testing parameters for time to climb are done by adjusting angle of climb throughout flight to maintain a certain speed so you end the climb at the same speed you started the climb.
I run 5 degrees AOA off runway to 1040kph, then I climb and maintain ~0.91 mach until ~9000 meters where I start pitching down to flat at a consistent rate until I maintain ~10500 meters.
It’s worth noting that it says brakes off to Mach 1.5 35,000 ft in less than 2.5 minutes. It doesn’t specify just how much less than 2.5 minutes.
BAE Systems claim it actually does brakes off to Mach 1.6 36,000 ft in less than 2.5 minutes. Which means 1.5 35,000 ft would probably be reached in quite a bit less than 2.5 minutes.
Since Typhoon has a noted lower TWR it’s safe to say it’s likely closer to 2.5 minutes than 2 minutes.
Note the likely.
Also the difference between 36000 feet + 1.6 and 35000 feet + 1.5 is itself not a lot of time.
The largest time sink is zero to climb speed.
It’s also possible that lower-drag causes that difference mentioned to be even less than higher-drag platforms.
Typhoon will be slower in the actual climb, that’s just down to TWR. Even F-18C matches F-16C in the climb portion of the test. F-16C will likely beat F-18C to mach 1.5 though due to lower drag overall.
It’s a tempting test to do, but ultimately we’re waiting for dev server or live drop for in-practice testing.
The first of its kind really since WT will be the first simulator with a very accurate Typhoon flight model.
