F16I incorrect engine values

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In the game, the F-16I should have an afterburner thrust of 129.7 kN instead of the current 105.3 kN, Below is the information and evidence regarding its engine manufacturer:

The F-16I is powered by the F100-PW-229 engine produced by Pratt & Whitney. According to the official data from Pratt & Whitney’s website (https://www.prattwhitney.com/en/products/military-engines/f100), this engine has an afterburner thrust of 29,160 pounds, which is equivalent to 129.7 kN. It also features a thrust-to-weight ratio of 7.6, a bypass ratio of 0.36, and an overall pressure ratio of 32 to 1, further confirming its capability to provide the 129.7 kN afterburner thrust for the F-16I. Let’s try to get this changed lady n gentlemen. If this is fixed it can at least BVR with the missile it has

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Have you taken into account the channel loss (loss of thrust due to restricted airflow compared to static bench tests)?

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It has been reported about before and after the dev. I’m just making more people know about it that way hopefully the devs will do something instead of saying not a bug to everything we try to do to make it slightly better so it’s just a waiting game sadly

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Also no matter the websites I look at always state that it’s thrust is 29k pounds to 27K pounds of thrust. It has not stated if it’s with the air intake or not. However I do know it has stronger engine performance than the current engine in the f16C block 50 that’s in game. Also being the current strongest engine inside a f16 in game so it begs to question why that got buffed while the f16I sufa has a weaker engine even tho the american air force updated all f16s to use the F100-PW229

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If the values were corrected ypu would only gain a 5% thrust increase overall which would match its irl performance

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You have to realize also that the sufa is much heavier than the f16c which will affect engine performance as a whole
Also the pw 229 is used because it has a higher thrust at higher air speeds and its pretty similar to the ge 129 so it compensates for the additional weight but at the same time worse afterburner thrust but a slightly better dry thrust
Also like the game master said you will lose thrust because the airflow is restricted
Overall the ge 129 pushes more power

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That could be a citation of thrust at-speed.
At-speed thrust needs to be compared to thrust at-speed, which F-16I has 15400kgf at mach 0.9.

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That 129 kn is bench thrust