From Johnwick’s sheet, Gszabi’s datamine is now going by dev instead of dev-stable as Gszabi has said today.
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I mean, were you expecting an 80’s F-14 to compete with a 2020’s F-14?
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Despite having lower max overload, will the fakour be able to actually pull more G’s due to its increased speed and thrust?
More than likely it will overall be more agile, yes.
Phoenix can occasionally pull 17G when at high speeds, but that takes quite some time due to the terrible acceleration.
Fakour 90 will be pulling 15G at ~3km from launch and retaining that pretty much up until impact.
That is gonna be fun to use TBH, I much prefer the climb to alt and launch on targets while cranking and notching, than the old furball knife fight fox 2 battles at 0 meters.
I’m cautiously excited, the TF30 is a horrible engine that I hated when the old F-14A released. Dunno if the fakour 90 will make up for that. Maybe it will.
One question I have is, if the Fakour-90 is close in size to the AIM54, how did they manage to fit the M112 in one piece? The M112 seems to be a lot bigger than the MK47?
At longer ranges, it should be able to pull the same or more due to having increased speed and better energy retention allowing for the missile to utilize the full 15G while Phoenix might drop down to 10G or below. Long story short, Fakour should very much be equal or better in every scenario. Long range, time to target, available overload at the tail-end ranges.
I wouldn’t say that is totally the case. The Fakour is 10mm thinner and the guidance / seeker is much reduced in size.
I would like to see BuNo.160378 camouflage in the game as GE skin, which was built for Iran but didn’t deliver due to the Islamic Revolution.
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That’s not datalink reconnection though
do you have any paper proof that they don’t?
They don’t what?
can you prove that the Fakour has more than 15G overload?
it’s a MiM-23 seeker so Why should it be any better?
last time i checked the MIM-23 was a SARH so wouldn’t the fakour be a SARH too if it uses the same seeker?
Obviously the performance characteristics of new missiles like this is not gonna be declassified any time soon (if ever, since many countries never declassify or at least publish old stuff).
So with many other examples of recent missiles or systems or … that we already have in the game, the best you can do is a guesstimate based on common sense and what is publicly known.
I just gave you the picture of the Iranian upgraded Hawk SAM (Shalamcheh) seeker and guidance section.
If Iranian Hawk SAMs use an indigenous upgraded seeker and don’t use the original Hawk seeker, there is no reason to think that the even newer AAM would be using the original Hawk guidance section and seeker.
yea but what if I guesstimate that Iraq doesn’t have acess to the amount of research and development that Raytheon, MBDA, Diehl and Wympel have and neither the easy acess to the technology needed to make a missile with a better guidance system?
We are not talking about Iraq
I just showed you the better guidance section
The idea that a guidance section and seeker made in 2010s would be worse than the one that was made in the 60s (and they have access to it as well) is wild to me …
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you showed me a picture of a guidance section that is correct
got any stats for this one?
the problem with the phoenix is that it cannot deflect enough air with it’s tiny fins to reach more than 20G overload
Fakour is faster and heavier, unless they changed the fins it should have at most 20G, if they kept the original Actuators it will have less Overload than the Original Phoenix