Pratt & Whitney is not General Electric, General Electric may state the installed static thrust rating for their engines but I am not sure. I’d need more confirmation for specific cases. In the meantime I can test the acceleration of the F-15E with F110-GE-129 to see if it matches known data.
For example, at 30k feet it should reach 1.06 mach in mil thrust after 280s accelerating from 0.4 mach.
At 40k feet, it should accelerate on maximum thrust from 0.8 mach to 2 mach in just 96 seconds.
I’m not reporting anything atm, I was just saying that I could try to obtain documentation relevant to his question.
In regards to the F-18A we can look at the acceleration charts in the manual.
360 knots IAS to 550 knots IAS (0.54 to 0.82 mach) should take approximately 10s at sea level with a gross weight of 26,000 pounds when clean. That would be with ~3,000 lbs of fuel. Min fuel for the aircraft in-game gives it about 3,100 lbs of fuel.
TL;DR the F-18A in-game has the correct acceleration for sea level 0.54 to 0.82 mach. It seems Gaijin matched the thrust and the acceleration quite well to the real world performance.
I don’t know why the video looks so grey / bland. Some issue with my monitor and the HDR settings for recordings I guess.
I swear to go i wonder if people claiming the aim120 is that good even play the game. Its good but its main strenght really only works againdt bad players. Top tier isnt bvr for the most part
Its average, the only reason you think its stronger is because its by far the most common fox 3. Any fox 3 that isnt derby or r77 is better in practice imo.
PL-12 has some issues right now that need addressed, not sure why. After 10km they seem to not function properly on occasion. That is an outlier, of course.
Of the vehicles that are underperforming I think the Chinese flankers will be some of the worst offenders once new models with improved engines and better radars come.
I got classified documents proving that the fa 18 overperforms a lot… cannot share it though obviously. Hopefully gaijin knows this and will nerf when the hype dies down as they usually does.
