yeah, pretty much.
but to be honest, russians are not worst offenders when it comes to having new stuff. France has a 2019 Rafale as their top tier fighter and 2021 Mirage 2000 farther down
Im pretty sure the rafale in the french tree is of Indian air force spec and not french so its quite dodgy
so its an indian spec rafale with testbed 8x mica loadout and french air force livery
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they can kiss the “lower operating costs” goodbye then
ERCS also goes against what makes AESA good by adding in moving parts
Post desert storm 1 years
I see
Similar to AV-8B Night Attack. but pre AIM-120, AGM-65F, JDAM, LJDAM and AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening targeting pod
A-7E late (Operation El Dorado Canyon 86’s ~ Gulf War 91’s) armed this PGM
Block 1 standard, outfitted AN/APG-73 Phase II radar and AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR pod
I’m waiting AIM-120C-3 (Air Force) and AIM-120C-4 (USN/USMC)
Yea it will be ok for 14.0 or 14.3, with pesa radar.
that isnt a PESA
Is there anything interesting in these 700 messages?
I didn’t looked up but it’s not aesa so it can be added with this update.
if it was AESA it could still be added, look at rafale and kfir c10
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a new leak, detailed on top, you can easily find it
M1.7-1.8 is not a conservative figure for the Raptor’s supercruise, it’s basically the best claimed. The more official position is that it can supercruise speed at speeds of “M1.5 or greater”, with M1.5 being the program requirement, and apparently a document saying it exceed requirements by about 15% (So ~M1.725).
The M2.0 claim is loose, it does not explicitly says the aircraft was supercruising, just that it was “cruising at M2.0 at 60000 feet”. That’s close to the original maximum speed on AB: M2.25, later decreased to M2.0 to preserve the stealth coating.
The Langley-Oshkosh in “25 to 30 min if we wanted” is also unlikely, as it would require an obscene ~M3.0 at altitude, which the Raptor cannot do even in full AB. The F22 has fixed-geometry inlets, it can’t control the airflow shockwave like an F15 does, much less like a SR71.
I don’t remember speed, but I remember F-22 only uses 70% throttle for supercruise.
F119 is very good at high altitude and high speed, but much worse than F-110 in low speed and low altitude.
so from 1.72 on lower end of estimated (accounting for bare minimum requirement and 15% exceeding), to 1.82-1.9 on high end (iirc multiple pilots have said theyve done this)?
mach 2 cruise could maybe be referring to using a significantly lower AB stage than most other fighters would to hold that speed
i havent heard about the langely oshkosh thing though.
do you know anything about the claim Smugspite made about tranche 4 eft being able to do 1.6 supercruise even though swiss trials showed EFT can only do 1.4?
the F-22 isn’t Fat Amy that’s the F-35 and still the F-35 would be at the Su-57 in a 1 on 1 fight no issue with the F-22 being a even easier fight
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Yes, the F119 is insanely powerful. The issue with stealth was (at least for the earliest Raptors) that temperature quickly degraded the coatings (limited to 467 F/242 C). Jim Brown said they needed 118% power to reach M2.0 @40k feet (150% being max afterburner). Unfortunately, fixed-geometry inlets have these sorts of limitations.
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nice. it seems the F-22 will be one of a few aircraft that can feasibly hit mach 2 in an actual game if thats true
