Yeah true,
It should be slightly less than 25 percent if I remember right, normal is around 47-48 percent fuel
I have the normal fuel load for the su-27sk somewhere on my main pc… I can go looking for it when I get home
Yes its odd the SU-27sk manual says 50% fuel but its 50% of 50% of the total internal fuel volume.
You wont have much time on afterburner lets put it that way.
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Okay looking at this more, i kinda agree with the other guy yapping in the comments in the bug report.
The plane is most likely being limited by the missile loadout, it’s most likely faster without them so it’s not an apple to apples comparison .
Pylon drag and its limitations aren’t models in game.
This is more to do with missile drag. Its only got 3 pylons on it the 2 that carry the sidewinders and the one tiny one on the belly.
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okay now thinking about this more and yeah your point makes sense.
it shouldn’t be able to maintain a single bit of energy in a turn above these values
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The SM has a similar (albeit) weaker flight profile of the SM2, it dosnt have AL-41’s but the AL-31’s it has are more than enough for BVR and can still put up numbers with its flight performance.
Youll be happy to know the US is getting the f15EX and new aim 120D missles
Not confirmed. US could also get PoBIT or F-18E/F block 3
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Id be shocked if they added yet anither f18 this soon.
They probably won’t add a newer one but a copypaste one to a sub (like the Aussie one to UK) is always possible
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God, I hope its the POBIT I also secondarily pray for the f16 double AMRAAM rack please gaijin, 2 extra missiles against 10-14 missile enemies isn’t that much to ask please it would be nice to have more than 6.
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watch it be the growler as april fools joke
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Well F-16C has good FM and good acceleration so i hope that even PoBIT would be good in both FM and acceleration however 6 missile would not be good at top tier. If it is given 120D then it would most likely be at 14.7
Is that even real?
Yes but instead it will sustain like 10 degrees a second beyond its top speed
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its on quite a few export f16s I’m not sure if the US owns them or uses them though ill find some images ill edit this post with them.(ignore this its on 1 single export f16A from the looks)
okay I found the image however… something feels off about it I don’t know why and I’m not sure how much I trust it considering it seems to come from a Pakistan nationalist military blogger.
only thing I know about it is its on the f16A block 5 or something that Pakistan has, Its the only one I’ve seen that isn’t a render for the bolck70/72 triple rack found it from one of the f16 discussions last year
god I missed when this one was ongoing it gave me so much enjoyment watching people use DCS renders to confirm there beliefs.
either way I’m very unsure now the block 50 from what I can see wouldn’t be capable of it but if were luck since they did perform tests with the triple rack and it was designed for the f16V maybe just maybe we might get it just as real as the MRML pylons we have on the f15.
okay side tracked found this image while looking and wanted to share the outward AMRAAM’s look so godamn silly on the f22
If US does not use it then they might not get it.
Anyways this would be fire!!!
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PoBIT is going to get wrecked at 14.7 with or without the double pylons. Flight performance wise it just can’t keep up with the EFT and Rafale and BVR wise the Su-30SM2 and EFT likely beat it due to their much better radar.
This looks like a very bad fake imo. The amraams look waaaay too big.
EDIT: Lookin as the left amraam racks it’s definitely a fake.,
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hydra pod for amraams would be hilarious,
he is using the wrong charts, here is more info about where he is wrong
What can save American top tier air? - #999 by Alpharius11348
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I think this is a misleading post 102% trim isn’t full afterburner as depicted in your screen shot. It’s an afterburner level iirc for the f15A it’s 105% = max afterburner.