Previous decompression wasn’t good thing.
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cause it wasn’t much?
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usamain copium
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Personally I find the Br of the F/A-18A particularly low, especially in simulation, even if the flight performances are slightly lower than those of the other Br aircraft, the combination of a very good radar and good air-to-air missiles will be devastating
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This ain’t 1. april
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Imagine a Hornet in the same Br. As the British phantoms with Aim7e lol.
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I just realized it’s a MatAWG video.
F-18C is the 3rd best airframe at 14.0, only behind Rafale and Typhoon, and it’s barely behind Rafale.
If F-18C doesn’t deserve to be 14.0, none of the 14.0s do.
And Su-30SM has the worse 14.0 airframe performance.
F-18C with same-fuel time as F-16A performs the same in energy retention right now.
Su-34 is infinitely worse than F-18… Russia would have to pay me directly to lie about that.
Get good at 14.0 or don’t play the BR.
That’d move F-18C with Rafale, Typhoon, and F-15C/E.
Also the 12.7 Hornet has all the performance of an F-16A with the potential of more weapons.
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No, 13.0 is a minimum with everything they are getting.
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What is this then?
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And how it’s 3rd best?
You compare ultimate dogfighters which bypass mach 1 without afterburner and one of it (Rafale) have ultimate agility and one of the best dogfight loadout with jet which barely can pass mach 1, have worst maximum speed over even older jets.
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Supercruise is primarily a fuel consumption thing…
F-18’s top speed is only ~60kph slower than Rafale.
Maximum speed doesn’t win matches, survivability does.
And Rafale is ~6% better than F-18 in flight performance.
21.something deg per second at 2.75 minutes of afterburner fuel vs F-18’s 20.1 in energy retention.
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Maybe, but Rafale/EF2k/15E/16C/Su-27/Su-34/etc. easy reach their max. speed while Hornet stuck around mach 1
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Which doesn’t matter because this isn’t a racing game, this is a combat game where more than just raw speed matters.
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Raw speed gives you energy, gives your missiles longer ranges and reach target faster.
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F-104, upgraded with avionics and weaponry to carry AIM-9P/J’s and AIM-7E’s…
For afterburning jets, TWR, drag, and mass are your energy attributes unless you climb beyond your peak amount.
F-18C is as-fast on full internal fuel as an F-16C is to 10,000 meters if you care.
Right now the F-18C retains energy as well as an F-16A, and more than an F-15A, when you select the same amount of fuel that you’ll afterburner will use.
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This is a very true statement in Vietnam they did a study and the F-4s rarely even went past Mach 1 on combat sorties. In the entire war the amount of times an F-4 went over Mach 2 was countable on your fingers.
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Wow, this is the biggest piece of copium I have ever seen
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Almost all previous decompression was reversed or made worse (with ARH)
Also 12.0 Hornet is madness
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