Because I was bored. Don’t mind the kindergarten art work, and also take it with a pinch of salt. I only have confirmed normal lift / VIFF data for the Harrier 1, therefore my harrier 2 drawing is based on estimates from harrier 1 data. The engine operation and nozzle layout is almost identical.
Green is possible instantaneous G with VIFF
Red is the sustained turn rate when using normal lift thrust
Blue is the basic combat thrust (84% in game)
This is F-16A with most of its internal fuel and Gr.5 with almost all its internal fuel. Both aircraft are using early less powerful engines.
The red line is averaged to be only 1 G more then the blue line, the harrier 1 chart shows that it exceeds 1G more in sustained G so the red line is likely slightly pessimistic.
Holy schizophrenia!
Odd how a document that uses maximum sustained turn rate for literally every other fighter would somehow only use a lower throttle setting for the Harrier and that there are no charts in any manual show the sustained turn rate number that you have seemingly generated out of thin air.
Note how ESR-D uses maximum performance figures for every airplane in the table…except for allegedly the Harrier GR.5…I wonder why this is?
Maybe someone has been jumping out of his ass for 9 months to hallucinate a turn rate that isn’t supported by any documentation.
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It seems to me that you’ve just not read anything about the harrier ever. There are tons of documents that state what I just said out right.
Do you see the difference in sustained G??? This is harrier 1, like I said harrier 2 charts that include VIFF and NLD are still classified. The AV-8B TacMan confirms this
Goodness me bro it uses combat thrust (this shares the same rpm as maximum thrust)
As seen in the harrier 1 E-M diagram how much is sustained G increased by?
Crazy bro, what rating does it say. It also says maximum power or maximum thrust
Not only that but the harrier has a PRL, at 20,000 feet the corrected rpm is about 89-90% or 70% throttle in game.
Sounds like a true story bro.
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As this seemingly cant be discussed civiliy and has already been reviewed and responded to by the devs, this topic will be closed.
Please use exisitng Harrier topics to dicuss the aircraft further.
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