F-22 Raptor

I’m talking relative to other things at/around it’s probable BR

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in terms of power/detection range it should be one of the best

Radar range would matter a lot when 5th gen come

If modeled passive radar detection and geolocation will be very important too. It’s basically the hard counter to the Su-57

Its already in game, as we saw the ESM mode

Also if you are reffering to the side arrays on felon, they are supposed to be also separately turned off, idk how gaijin will model that

Flanker FV2… and the third line would be another Flanker?

euro

And… I suppose you can’t post it without the red scribbles?

It’s a full 360 deal

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That’s a very interesting doc, thanks for sharing.

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just be aware this is a very old British government doc and the figures should be taken with a grain of salt, since it predates production F-22 and maybe EFT

funny how FRAF (EFT) happens to have the best numbers

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they’re… quite a bit optimistic since the aircraft ballooned in empty weight since then so it’s not really accurate

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do you have the date this is from?

I think it’s from gunjob or flame, gotta ask em
@Gunjob

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For F-22 and F-35 their RWR geolocation is full 360 spherical. It’s seperate from the radar afaik though I could totally see them using the radar to recieve stuff from the front

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Yup, I’m thinking more in terms of historical terms. Still, maybe those were the actual program goals back then?

Like (this is just me trying to shoehorn numbers for fun, heh), a forum member from the SPUK quoted an old F22 page, citing a 53 seconds acceleration time from M0.8 to M1.5 @ 30000 ft.
He also gives this GAO report:

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F22 aircraft progress in achieving engineering and manufacturing development ... - Google Livros

Then, pages of interest are 8 and 10. Page 8 explicitly lists the 10 major parameters for the F22 performance evaluation, while page 10 has a chart of how they compared to date and predicted values for EMD completion, in comparison to the requirements.

Acceleration “>58” secs on the British document, 108% of performance achieved to date (1998). Let’s take a hard 58 instead of greater than.
x * 1.08 = 58 secs
x = 58 / 1.08 = 53.7 secs
53.7 fits the information from the old F22 page, and the % falls in line with the achieved to date and the EMD prediction.

Supercruise requirement was M1.5, then 114% of that is M1.71. That also falls within the numbers we find for supercruise in pilot reports (although ~M1.8 iirc was the highest I could find).

Maneuverability would stay the same, while radar range would go from 160 to 187km.

Anyhow, I’ll try do dig a bit on that old website.

Edit: ok, I managed to get a view of the old LM website (note last updated 2005). Some number matching for acceleration and supercruise as well.

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Damn this thing fast as hell. 1480 kph IAS.

For reference the su-57 is 730 KCAS/1350 kph IAS.

It also has a higher max g load than the su-57, which is only 8gs.

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