Map borders reset speeds to ~500kph.
It can attempt to speed at 18000 meters, but it can only do it once.
And if it moves to 8000 meters or less, it’ll be caught in total speed.
Especially with the fact that EJ has 4 potent radar missiles.
Crazy math but none of that matters in an actual game. MIG-25 doesn’t even need to hit Mach 3. If you’re at Mach 1.8-2.0 you’re untouchable. AIM-7 coming at you? Fly the opposite way or notch lol.
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EJ Kai gets to speed just as quickly.
Or did you forget the 0.6:1 TWR of Mig-25?
That’s without the fuel tank.
Also to go mach 2 in the Mig-25, it needs to be a higher altitude than the Phantom.
Of course, at higher altitudes the Mig-25 starts pulling away in the mach area.
Dude you are so humorous. Can’t wait for a F4 to catch up to my MiG 25
The only thing that has a chance to catch it is a Mig-21bis or Mig-23, and both of those do not have the energy retention/raw power of a Mig-25 at mach 1.8+.
It will be unkillable, but it’s complete lack of look down radar capability, and it’s lack of manoeuvrability will prevent it from ever dominating IMO.
R-40s won’t be bad, they seem about on par with R-24s from what I’ve tested.
why is this still open lols
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i would take the american F4E but you do you buddy :D
Easier to find at-BR vehicles than get downtiers in an 11.3 when 12.0 exists as a BR.
My friend when the MiG-25 climbs with 1070 IAS it makes any Phantom look like it cant take its feet off the ground…
While these are just FM diagrams (700Kph starting speed , 10.000m altitude) , the Phantom took 100 seconds more to reach its max mach while the MiG-25 Casually ripped already at 100 seconds. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about!
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This whole thread :“BET! 9.7 is too much for this brick , i suggest 6.3…it wont even lock the props with that crappy radar”
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Funny how I support a reasonable BR [10.7] for Mig-25 due to it being super slow to accelerate, having an average radar for its altitudes, bad radar missiles [unless people think the better AIM-7Es are great missiles], and being unable to turn; and people come in posting it should be 9.3.
Oh wow, I did do a time to climb test with the fuel tank on. This was before further nerfs on the Mig-25 as well.
67 seconds to 1000kph.
135 to 7000 meters.
144 to 8000.
153 to 9000.
170 to 10,000.
266 to mach 1.5.
The F-4EJ gets to 1000kph in 51 seconds.
To 7000 meters in 113 seconds.
Sadly the test isn’t usable for my spreadsheet because it’s not full internal fuel, or 9 minutes on afterburner at 1000kph SL.
There are faster ways to make these aircraft climb, but I included 7000 meters because that’s a typical altitude people will level off before accelerating into mach in-match.
After all, the F-111F beats the Mig-25 to mach 2.4.
The Mig-23ML beats the Mig-25 to mach 2.3 while having better radar missiles and flight performance.
Also, the Mig-25 out-accelerates F-4E post-mach. I’ve stated this many times here.
That fact is why the faster climb rate of F-4EJ is countered by the faster post-mach acceleration of Mig-25PD. Which leads to similar time to climbs around 8000 meters.
You’re basing vehicle performance based off mathematics in a vacuum. You always do this lol. You can report my comment again.
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the missile is not equivalent to the aim 7E, it is far closer to the E2, as the R40 only have 1 second delay to get a gain of 1, meanwhile the E has a 2.5s delay to get a gain of 0.4, and in order to archive its maximun overload it need 4.5s, so the r40RD is much better at closer and against maneuvering targets
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That math-based opinion is neat, but the lower delay won’t change the notably worse agility of R-40s.
@NukaColaVato-psn
Your reply was meant for someone else.
I’ve never based vehicle performance on math.
As you can see from my posts, I exclusively base performance on practical testing.
What notably worse agility, they only differ by 5g while it has a higher fin angle, the lower delay does change notably as it directly affects the ranges where you can enploy the armament, not to mention that the missile has also better range.
If this delay wouldnt matter or change notably there wouldnt be any difference in practice between the aim 7E and the aim 7E2.