This isnt to argue the Eurofighter doesnt have a wing loading, its just correcting incorrect info that was provided.
Going by the datamine, GJN doesn’t seem to use his claimed effective lifting area.
well that would explain why it violently departs when losing a wing, which it probs shouldnt do seeing as it still has ~65% of its lift across most of the aircraft…
Its not exactly unlike gaijin to mismodel something for whatever reason and then adjust some other values to compensate though
Quick question what version implemented the towed decoy? Was it already there for the first versions or added later?
Tranche 1 had it
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The Praetorian DASS (decoys included) dates right back to the first production aircraft.
not exactly. full dass came with block 2b. block 1 actually didnt have any DASS at all but there were only like 2 single seaters
Huh, I never knew that, that’s strange I wonder what the point of those two-aircraft was, presumably they were retrofitted?
IPA test aircraft
at least some of them were retrofitted. IPA1-6 were all T1 aircraft, IPA1 was for DASS integration, IPA6 was for T2 testing and integration of new computers, etc.
IPA7 then was T2
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There are also the ISPA series that were used for sistem test too
both T1 ISPAs have full DASS and only the ISPA2 is a single seater(of the T1s)
and also they had their first flights like 2 years after the IPA1-3
Yeah they are newer compared to the IPA series
Not sure how much I believe this claim, but during a podcast, a german air force lieutenant claims the Eurofighter can accelerate from “around 200 knots (M0.31)” to supersonic in 5 seconds or less, which is beyond ludicrous in my mind
That would represent an average acceleration of around 48m/s^2, or around 4.90g of acceleration…
Admittedly I can’t calculate G, but approx 47 ms^-2 is ludicrous.
1g is 9.81m/s^2 or 32.2ft/s^2 in retard units (technical term used in my profession for the imperial system).
All you gotta do is divide 48m/s^2 by 9.81 m/s^2 and you get the acceleration in g’s
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That is ludicrous. The official figure given by Eurofighter GmbH is 200 kts to Mach 1.0 in 30 seconds.
Even the thrust seems ludicrous. If we consider the engines generating max power in ideal circumstances, even at minimum unloaded weight, they could still only achieve 16.3 ms^-2 from wikipedia stats.
RAF website states that it can generate a max of 40,000lbf of thrust at max power (AB included), so it is of course possible the Germans fitted a hyperdrive to their Typhoon?
Clearly German science has provided warp drives to there fighters
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Remember wiki thrust is static thrust iirc. By comparison, thrust curves i’ve seen for the F-110 engine, which are stated to be between 28000-32000lbf actually go as high as 38000 lbf, if not more iirc?
The pilot also mentions that in the video, stating something along the lines of “as the plane goes faster, the engine gets more air and can accelerate more”
That makes more sense, can you post the source for that though? it doesnt seem to line up with the wiki which states “brakes off to supersonic: <30 seconds”