Just to clarify.
I have an overall positive opinion on your positions since they are critical in nature and physics based.
I merely stated that you changed your mind quite quickly given the right sources but you seem to be reluctant to accept that the Eurofighter might actually be able to supercruise efficiently.
It’s hard to find a source that specifically tells you what you want to hear. I would need a much deeper understanding of the matter to find what you or I are looking for, which I do not have. So I am just interested in the studies you reference with the engines temperature limits. From what I can tell the EJ200 can withstand very high temperatures and hitting 2300ish °K doesn’t seem outlandish to me.
It all depends in what you call efficient. Will it hurt the engine? Yeah probably, just like all war time settings will reduce the lifetime a high supercruise speed will almost certainly always lower life expectancy of the engine. This however comes at the benefit of greatly increased range at higher speeds.
So you get into action quicker and can stay there longer at a faster pace. This overall seems very efficient to me. You might define efficiency in a different way so there is no way for us to agree on it if our subjective definitions are already incompatible.
Again, this doesn’t mean I want to twist your words to fit my agenda. I appreciate the time and effort you spend on research and trying to improve the realism.
I think you misread my comment as being hostile, when it was meant to be more of a recollection of what was said before. We already made a lot of progress in the discussion and I am interested to learn more about the EJ200 engines and what kind of stress supercruise might put on them compared to other engines.
