Yeah they arent going to handle anyone flying above the shrubs as mach jesus. they wont even realise they are in a onc circle fight until its too late.
if they havent learned from the F14 meta they wont stand a chance
With TVC, could win a one circle with a good burst. If they fail it’s over though
Taken from BAE.
Powered by two Eurojet EJ200 engines, providing an excellent combat
thrust-to-weight ratio in excess of 1.2:1 with 30% thrust growth
available
catching them off guard, no hope. losing energy against delta wings, just J out
Couldn’t find a TWR on Lockheed page on it, but it did say you could perform maintenance on the F119 engines with just six commercially available tools
Actually USAF page states weight as 43340lb and each engine 35k lbf (though that’s very likely less than the actual output) so the 1.61 TWR applies to it
Also turns out the M61A2 has 480 rounds so it’ll have enough ammo for dogfights
Is it really that much worse than delta wings? If any jet has good supersonic agility it would be the F-22, that’s where it would be sitting on a combat mission in its intended role
I highly doubt it’s gonna be able to get nose on to a Typhoon for a gun kill. All depends on the players using each so maybe
You can perform maintenance on anything with your hands and a stick, just depends how complex your issue is. This is purely a marketing statement.
Says standard flight line maintenance, and is it really marketing if the sole customer is already done buying?
F22 has vectored thrust so it probably has a better instantaneous turn rate and AOA but it will probably burn its energy far quicker. Typhoon and rafale will beat it in a sustained turn
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Can you just send the link?
This still makes it a marketing statement btw. X country sees it and orders a similar engine from the company because the other engine can have maintenance done on it so easily, so this one must too.
From Lockheed.
They don’t say anything about maintenance for the F-35, which has the closest engine to the F-22’s F119 so your point is largely invalid
I know, delta canard is better for that, but I wonder how good it’s supersonic manueverability is. I know it’s low speed agility is great for a fact, but idk about mach 1.2+
Dominates in what exactly?
The only things they have which you could call ‘best ingame’ is Panstir and Su34 (As CAS). But even on Su34, a significant reason in why it’s so strong is simply the fact it’s the only top tier CAS that doesn’t have to face Pantsir.
F&F Heli’s have dethroned Ka52 / Mi28.
2A7 /122’s have dethroned BVM.
EF / Rafale / F-15E are a country mile better than any ASF Russia currently has.
The only reason their winrates are still so high is because stat addicts squad RU + GER + SWE together to make an unstoppable trio, and because US - who is supposed to be the primary counter to them, is majority populated by Clickbait & AIM players addicted to one death leaving 2 minutes into every match.
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Thank you.
The point must have flown over your head if you don’t get it. So here we go again.
Customer: Wow, X engine from Y company is so easy to maintain, they must maintain that standard of quality for all their engines.
Date of introduction means nothing unfortunately. Soviet tech is 30 years behind NATO, so they need newer stuff to compete.
It is a shame just how handicapped they have to force nations to be in order to be “balanced” but rarely seem to apply the same rules to the soviets (IOG on the KH-38s for example is extremely OP and could be removed to better balance them, but they wont but they’ll totally remove any semblence of FnF from the Brimstone, heck they dont even give the Typhoon its historically accurate Brimstone 2/3s)
Lockheed doesn’t even make engines, and their aircraft use both PW and GE engines. I’m pretty sure it’s just a neat fact about the airplane
Why would Lockheed customers even bother looking at the F-22 page on their website?
I dont think ive won a single match against USSR at top tier for a couple of weeks.
Because they are interested in seeing what capabilities can be transferred into the plane they are purchasing. It’s called an upgrade program.