Sorry what
Ahhh yeah a thrust to weight of >1.5 is gunna have a lower sustained rate and energy retention than an F-14B of course my bad.
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.
price and reliability probably
Imagine instead of a cf18 we get a british f14
Chaotic evil
It like the f16aj they considered it but was too expensive
Oh no wrong chat
That’s like chaotic neutral
Indian Rafale
yes i want to see the world burn
Give France the TEJAS
and the HAL HF-24 Marut to germany
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Empty + Pilots + Oil + Integrated pylons has a Static T/W of 1.624
Full Takeoff With 10 missiles + Fuel has a static T/W of 1.037
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Air Power Australia, the definitive “I spent 30s googling after someone called my bluff” source.
Okay, but what is this based on?
The Static Thrust of 90 KN
And Masses of:
11300kg - Zero Fuel Operational
17700kg - Max Fuel Operational + 10M
You’re not taking into account installed thrust change, and I am going to assume that the weights are just made up until I’m shown otherwise.
The weights are easily found from something I’m not going to put here… As for installed thrust, sure we aren’t going to get that, but are you comparing to installed thrust for the other jets?
U need the proof unfortunately
And nothing classified please