We have mach 4+ missiles ingame, it cannot outrun them, and the altitude required for it to go Mach 3 is quite high where players don’t fight.
Those are termed “integral fuel tanks” - pretty much every large airliner has them these days too, although they can use rubber and other sealants at the joints.
I have “wonderful memories” of crawling through 737-200 series wings sealing up all the joints in the tanks with PRC 1422 as an apprentice in the 1970’s!!
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missile fuel?
Again nobody flies high enough for the alts the YF-12A will “shine” at it’s top speed. Just like nobody currently flies high enough for mach 2+ combat. Mach 1.6-1.7 is normal on large enduring confrontation maps to travel around quickly when looking for enemies whilst sacrificing fuel.
mach 2 is not implemented in game as you cant surpass mach 1.99 if I remember correctly, but I’m not getting into an argument over this
Yeah, the ramjet engines don’t kick in until around about 80k feet, this thing won’t be very good.
Most top tier jets fly faster than Mach 2 and you can easily reach it at the correct altitude.
You probebly don’t fly top tier on enduring confrontation maps, it’s very easy to hit Mach 2+ if you only want to go high and fast and risk radar missiles.
I’m pretty sure there are already single player missions in game. It’d be the first you’d have to buy to play a certain mission, but technically we have (well I guess had) the Pacific and European theater bundles, that came with a plane, SL (I believe) and a few missions, but idk if you really count that, since it is no longer available
But I wouldn’t mind seeing it in game🙂
sounds like a US MiG-25P
That sounds like a very, very neat experience
both are fast high altitude interceptors with only a few Medium range AAMs
Only from the perspective of time!! ::)
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OMG this will be the fastest plane in War Thunder. Yes!
I forgot to look this up.
Glad I did, cause this would be neat.
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I honestly think that this should be added to the game, but only as an AI aircraft. It could make an appearance as an AI controlled reconnaisance aircraft for EC maps.
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+1 for Dreams Come True. It technically could be added, but it wouldn’t be practical, so it would best fit either as the prize, or as a squadron vehicle.
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Considering how heavy the aircraft is, that’s a funny meme.