It is certain that there is f16 block 50 pobit, and it has much better engine performance than f16 block 52 version.
Best scenario is they upgrade current pobit version, but I don’t think that will happen. So I don’t care if there is one more f16 to unlock, really wish to have f16 block 50 pobit.
Won’t it have same engine as 13.7 F-16CM? And i feel like a big difference between acceleration of CM Pobit and CM
There is a small difference, the X2 series has the original F100 engine (though upgraded to -229) it has better dry thrust. The X0 series have the newish F-110 engine (-129) which has better reheat thrust but worse dry thrust compared to F100-229
The actual differences between the better and worse parts is not too much but can be noticed
F-110 vs F-100 reheat: 129.7kn vs 131.2kn
F110 vs F-100 dry: 79kn vs 76.3kn
There is also the experimental F-100-232/229A which has up to 145 kn thrust and the F-110-132 which was applied to the block 60 with 144.6 kn
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there is pretty big difference between the two
100m
4000m
8000m
they are comparable bellow M0.8, but above that especially at high altitude the blk50 has a significant advantage
this is all for 110% throttle
F-16s 13.7+ are powercrep anyway so it doesn’t really matter. But yeah it’s a somewhat noticeable difference
Also below mach 1 the 52 actually accelerates and performs better which is the part that matters the most for dogfights so according to this the 52 is better