Oh its great from a gameplay perspective, infinite modularity means it can be buffed without changing anything in tonnes of different ways. My issue is from a taxonomic position, having different blocks refer to different upgrades within one tranche/batch which is never clearly outlined (from where i’ve seen) in one place.
Naming an aircraft Typhoon FGR.4 and then not taking it upon yourself to scale the number with each block is just a missed oppurtunity as far as I’m concerned.
I’ll give it another look, just don’t remember it being particularly useful.
Would asraam be similar to r27et in terms of flight performance?
It’s slower, less range but better seekerhead and more maneuverable
The asraam is slower? I thought it’s known to be one of the fastest acceleration on a ir missile, not sure how different to the r27et it is though
Oh, acceleration is better on the asraam but top speed is higher for the 27et
ehhhhh
I doubt asraam max speed is around Mach 6 lol
Mach 5 from the temps it gets to
Does the EF really have to break its wings when gaining horizontal speed near the ground?
If you change the number on a designation that essentially makes it a new aircraft model, so requires a whole load of paperwork and certification work. So unless there are substantial changes the MOD like to keep the designation the same these days. Wit the black-to-block changes from Tranche 2 onwards being fairly minor it is really not worth designating them as different aircraft.
According to the manufacturer the ASRAAM motor case supposedly experiences over 1,000°C of aerodynamic heating during flight. As far as I can tell it is basically impossible to reach that sort of temperature unless you are going comfortably over Mach 5.
For comparison Meteor apparently cruises at “over Mach 4” and only experiences 500°C of aerodynamic heating according to the same source.
Anyone got the AESA FGR.4? How’s it perform on live?
I imagine that if an ASRAAM accelerates to a conservative Mach 5, and then starts doing all sorts of maneuvering to catch a target. Then yeah I could see it heating up that much with all that energy now being turned into lift, pumping heat into “just” 88 kg worth of mass. All I can read in my 5 minutes of lazy googling late at night, is ASRAAM hitting about mach 3.
Maybe Meteor isn’t as “draggy” in it’s maneuvering, and it is also a bigger heatsink at nearly 200kg. Maybe that is why it’d heat up less?
ASRAAM (88,91kg) with the same drag coefficient as CAMM* is able to reach mach 5+ in Statshark, 10km altitude, 1200km/h at launch
am i dreaming too much?
Ive got it… But stock grind is just impossible.
Took me an hour to grind out chaff.
Even base bombing in SB just didnt work
It’s funny to hear this from someone who claimed that a 20 degree difference is not significant.
You have completely lost me…
What does 100% stock and thus no chaff, no G-suit, no booster, heck not even expert crew. have to do with having an extra 20 degrees of FoR?
You cant defeat ARH without chaff if theyve fired inside the LSZ
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Wow, German main cope has reached an entire new level. Not being able to do well in a 100% stock aircraft is a skill issue now.