@acroute posted the wonderful references for us all the way back up near the top…
There is plenty of available performance data for comparisons, I’m not making this stuff up or guessing at all. There is no “I think–”… It simply performs as im saying because I am referencing real data.
At 60% fuel with 2x AIM-9 and 2x AIM-120 performs on par with a clean F-16C w/ 30 minutes fuel.
The data for the F-16C in-game with 30 minutes fuel aligns with the performance given of the F-18C from the source. Therefore, sustained turn rates for the F-16 loaded with only 2300kg internal fuel are equal to that of the F-18C loaded with 3,000kg of fuel and 2x AIM-9, 2x AIM-120…
That is the data available … If you want better data feel free to reference the easily available EM charts for either… It will confirm what I am telling you but isn’t permissible for sharing on the forum.
Yeah, he was doing similar in other threads. He is acting in bad faith trying to switch or obscure numbers and mix sources to confuse. Very standard propaganda work
The word F-16 shows up twice in the entire source about the F-18 E/F and says nothing in regard the F-18C with 2x Aim9s being on par with the F-16C at 30 min fuel clean.
This guy grabs numbers smashes them together, inserts his own numbers and obscures data to prove his personal point.
Just post the entire source and hopes none of you look into it and just take his word for it. This is the equivalent of him using WTRTI for his test and pretending he does not know why GJ developers told him not to use it.
Now he is comparing the IN GAME f16 (which he says is over performing by a lot) to an f18 and says the f18 is better than that… damn it gets worse and worse
Here we see how it will have better performance thanks to the lack of G limiters. 20 deg/s is indeed superior to the F-16C depending on conditions. Too bad this discussion can never happen without nuisances.
He intentionally conflates reality with the game performances with other aircraft and will go great lengths and quite literally bending over backwards to push whatever agenda he has at the time.
At the same time he fails to let us know how he exactly comes up with wild conclusions. He will never run down his formula, but instead post a source and hope none of you read it.
Like here, the National Security and International Affairs Division cost review of the F-18E/F.
All this is nothing but as cost effectiveness review of the F-18E/F for the United States Accounting Office.
All this is, is nothing but a written review by Louis J. Rodrigues
Director, Defense Acquisitions Issues telling the congressional committee the Navy is totally wasting money on the F-18E/F.
The title literally says “F-18E/F is barely adding any operational improvement, but costing us a crap ton of money.”
Hence the reason for referencing the public source. The manuals are not permissible for sharing on the forum but are easily found on Google with a simple search and verify the data / what I’ve been saying.
My apologies for lumping you in with his beliefs.
I have no issue with your source and yes, they perform very similar and the F-18C to other Hornets.
But my point is my guy will go on some crazy expedition, grab numbers off the internet, compare them with in game performances. Use WTRTI, manipulate values to push an agenda.
He will use other people’s sources like yours to try and get you to invertedly cosign for his far-out conclusions.
That is why I asked you intentionally to show us the formula. Knowing you had nothing to do with it.