Not exactly. Due to its monstrous thrust, its available overload at the end is significantly higher than AIM-54 at BVR range.
In fact, the AIM-54 can only reach 17G overload under very harsh conditions.The AIM-54 is more maneuverable towards the end of the burn and at the beginning of the glide, but this is no longer the case after that.
Moreover, the high terminal speed (16km→0) can greatly shorten the time for notch.
Your running into the same problem that’s stopped a bunch of Chinese planes from being accurate, they make up numbers and then request a bunch of classified documents if you want the missile/plane/tank to be accurate. Then if someone actually does submit the documents they say “we can’t use this cause it’s classified”
I’m sorry - but what is TTT? This is the first time I’ve heard/seen such an acronym. Is this some kind of “time to…”?
As for the speed and reduced reaction time - I agree. This will clearly be the main killer feature of the F90.
As for maneuverability… Well… I think we will simply find ourselves in a situation where it is harder to miss with a faster bullet. If the hit percentage does increase, then, as it seems to me, it will not be because of greater maneuverability, but because of greater speed. Simply because a faster object requires less lead.
We often get very accurate data using 6 DOF modeling in my line of work. Given we know the engine, weights, and flight performance of the body, we can predictive model this missile with pretty good accuracy. We also know the performance enhancements of modern digital seekers. Given all of this, it is likely that the missile will underperform, (just like the Sparrows, Sidewinders, AMRAAM, and Phoenix) on the US side already do.
What we do know, from the past and how abysmally incorrect the US missiles are, this one will under perform as well. So you have that.
They’ve gutted the turning performance compared to what it used to be though.
Is it realistic? Fireball made a statement that it could have been from devs reading the charts or something of that sort for the minimum range maneuverability
No, the Iranian Fakour-90 has a new ARH seeker that was developed specifically for it. All it uses is the warhead and booster from the I-HAWK.
The 1960’s sensors were the issue, not the guidance system or the aerodynamic layout. The modern guidance and sensors would allow higher overloads as the response to instabilities would be quicker.
[Above] Iranian F-14As with functional ‘glove vanes.’ These ‘vanes’ were deleted on later versions of USN Tomcats (F-14B and D models), citing excessive complexity and maintenance issues. Functioning F-14A ‘vanes’ on Iranian aircraft is consistent with research conducted by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.