In that case, its not a 1:1 comparison from 90kN, your channel loss % should come from 87.3 kN (uninstalled, but with the nozzle fitted) (the final aircraft uses the same nozzle as well).
Then you have 2.6% loss total, which if applied to 82.1kN results in 79.9kN, or 159.8kN/16295kgf total, which is just 200kgf under what I tested with which is not much of a difference. 107% THR is 16141kgf, which is 154 kgf under that, which I can test if you want.
That’s my bad in assuming that the 2.7kN was for both the nozzle and being installed in the acft
and if you ignore the above entirely, 77.9 kN is 106% which it also overperforms with.
I also kept lowering throttle on the previous FM until it could meet the STR given in the performance estimate and that ended up being 71kN / 103%, so there’s still a fair way to go anyways. Watch 103THR | Streamable ← more or less the same deal in the current iteration
No matter how you slice it, its overperforming in STR with this data.
Average A2A (if not weaker in a number of situations)
The only thing going for it is a slightly above average FM which Gaijin keeps nerfing despite sources to the contrary.
And that’s without mentioning other nerfs like the state of BOL, IRST or DASS
If they fix the radar, FM and A2G loadout, along with some other rather critical bug fixes i’d agree, but at the moment I’d place the Rafales Su-30 and F-15E/I above it currently, given the meta is missiles not guns.
Again it’s radar is nowhere near the weakest, it’s a2a is fine and a fairly strong loadout, no comment on a2g as I do not play gamemodes where that’s relavent, and I was notably explicitly talking about flight performance which none of these factors effect.
In a meta where radar performance is critical, a radar that doesn’t work half the time has a major impact. Given it’s missiles are also average at best. It holds very slim advantages over anything else it faces.
Yeah no, I have no issue with any other fighter/radar combo. Heck I even make the F3 Late and FA2 work quite well. Some of the weakest ARH slingers in the game.
Have actually ever used the Typhoon? Or is this just anti-typhoon bias?
CAPTOR-M is a buggy mess that is less reliable at picking up targets than the blue fox
You have any idea how blind the radar is? The TWS mode can’t even see things coming directly at you from the front half the time. I’ve resorted to switching to IRST then switching immediately back over to radar to fire AMRAAMs as because the CAPTOR seems to run on dialup and locks onto thin air (the location the aircraft was in like 2 business days prior)