Ah, just a fuel efficiency issue then… probably still performs alright tho. We should move that convo to the correct topic tho if we wanna continue it.
Most IRST + radar combos on aircraft with fox-3 should be able to slave the ARH seeker I’d think… but yeah, that’s quite useful for sneaking up on people and then launching it in active mode I suppose.
Probably, though not much more to say and rarely do BVR fights occur at that alt, or even much above 1000ft in WT. Especially with the poor Radar controls. Though I’m hoping on the FA2, EFT, or whatever comes next that it will have some better search modes. F3 always feels a little handicapped by its search modes that were probably meant for someone in the back manually moving them around, and not a more automatic search. A symptom of the dual seater, so I hope that any future single seater will be better just for that alone
Yeah, I read that suggestion and voted for it, Would be a big boost. though also just getting relative control + vertical axis control would also be a major help in that regard too
Do you have installed thrust information for Eurofighter? I’d be glad if you could change my opinion in that regard, I was thinking the static thrust to weight was ~1.45 completely empty… which puts it slightly ahead of the F-14B in that regard but it’s still a delta
What I’ve come to know is that the Eurofighter’s thrust to weight with installed thrust is around 1.22, similar to the F-14B at around 20 minutes fuel load in-game. (Similar fuel weights).
And then there is this bit;
I’m not one for taking the pilots word with things, but the fact that they commented about the installed thrust being comparable to the late build F/A-18 models is… rough imo.