My max was somewhere around 2200-2250. Then I got tired of trying to speed up. Apparently I was wrong in considering that set of changes a buff.
Here’s what I thought about (not least due to the squabble in the Rafale thread). What ΔV should ASRAAM have?
The “longest” IR missiles at the moment
R-27ET - 1130 m/s
MICA IR - 1100 m/s (based on MICA EM)
Python 4 - 1120 m/s
It’s also worth remembering that all these missiles have VERY aggressive aerodynamics, which means a very respectable drag.
The only information I can honestly remember is that ASRAAM has 60-70% more fuel than AIM-9 (either Flame or Gunjob said this). I’ll act as primitively as possible and assume that the more fuel, the longer the acceleration and the greater the ΔV. I took AIM-9M and its 820 m/s as a starting point. Then ASRAAM has ΔV in the region of 1300-1400. With minimal resistance.
Actually, the question is - in your opinion, how far am I from the truth?
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Above 10km no chance
under 10km works fine
AFAIK it has officially Mach >3, so around >1030 m/s with an official range of >25 km (according to an infographic of the DoD). As these are the only values available it would be implemented with these values even if the real (not officially stated) range and speed would be much higher.
Which would be exactly Mach 4 (1372 m/s).
A better assumption would be that it’s similar if not better than the AIM-95 (it had two motors developed and flight tested, one with significantly enhanced performance), I forget what the ballpark was for value arrived at, IIRC it would have been @MiG_23M that did the calculations for it, somewhere in the thread.
M2.35 irl should allow the EFT to go M2.47 ingame, so its actually missing M0.21 in speed at alt rn, and like stated, it takes an eternity to get to that speed since its acceleration quickly falls off at higher speeds:
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What?
VNe ingame is 5% higher than irl. 1.05x 2.35 is 2.47. This is how literally every aircraft top speeds work in-game, the EFT is underperforming, not even hitting its IRL stated VNe, never mind what it should be hitting in-game.
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Brimstone.exe stopped working on dev beyond 10km
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EFT isn’t only plane with this issue then
It just seems like Rafale was one of the first to have it fixed (though iirc it really shouldn’t be going past mach 2)
Typhoon shouldnt exceed mach 2.0?
The stated figures from RAF and Luftwaffe are their maximum operating speeds.
RAF states mach 1.8.
The airframe in testing was capable of easilly exceeding that.
The Rafale buff wasnt a VNe increase (unless you’re referring to a buff idk about), it was a massive acceleration increase. It is now the single best high speed acceleration plane in-game, and will most likely rip its wings in high alt level flight.
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He was talking about the rafale obviously.
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He did indeed! I have had that 1.8 figure used regularly!
Still they want MICA buffed. If that happens we all may aswell pack up and go home
I mean, you do realize that the french wont have a better missile till meteor, and they won’t get meteor (same with typhoon) when people will fire around aim-120C and whatever the Russian and Chinese counterparts are.
The meteor is literally the end game together with r37 and pl15.
When they nerf/remove multipath even more(i think they will in the future) the mica will suddenly be a lot less dangerous
Paveway IV:
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Still no clue why people are so negative about the eurofighter + with the amount of people i see trying to seriously claim the rafale it seems to be quite something.
MICA IR/EM
No way for gameplay reasons can you give MICA 120 range while allowing the Rafale to mount and guide 8 with the best Radar and now the best FM.