The general law for engines as a whole INCLUDING jet engines is that the more air you can pass through them the more fuel can be burned into that air. With this understanding out of the way we can safely say that jet engines will consume more fuel the faster they begin to travel.
So why gaijin does the Harriers engine burn the most fuel sitting still???
When just lifting off it will burn well over 300 Lbs/min yet when at full power at .9 Mach its only burning 150 Lbs/min
yes because they produce more thrust at lower speeds
this is so that the harrier can conduct VTOL
Yes but it shouldn’t.
The installed thrust of the Harrier is already higher than it should be, and the thrust as it speeds up is too low.
any sources for that?
might be worth to just ask @Morvran
but that dosent have anything to do with the fuel burn
I have sources for everything harrier related lmao.
Than by this comment here why did you mention thrust at all
Im just not sure. Slightly beyond my technical expertise. Would want Flame or Gunjob to comment really.
because to produce more thrust you have to burn more fuel
it is called engine massflow
means that the harrier will burn more fuel at slower speeds due to the higher thrust
i wasnt talking about specific thrust values
my point is that it will need more fuel to achive the higher thrust values at lower speed than at high speed due to the thrust dropping of
I suppose in game yes, and this could be causing the weird issue.
However that’s the complete opposite to IRL.
then you should make a bug report instead of a forum thread
Bug reports are useless, especially if you draw 0 attention to the Issue. They will just go ignored.
even worse if you didnt make any report
I’m going to in time.
I believe all VTOLs in game have artificially high low speed thrusts, so they will obviously consume fuel faster. If the thrust at high speed is wrong tho, it’s worth a report (if it’s not already done. I don’t know if it’s already considered in that harrier report on the time it takes to go at a certain altitude and speed in a fixed amount of time)
It is, I made all those reports and other.
They don’t even accelerate as fast as they should.
But yes the static thrust of the Harrier in game is the static thrust of an UNINSTALLED Pegasus engine IRL.
It should be 19,750 lbs thrust static but it is 21,500 but by some gaijin logic the thrust drops off by half almost at higher speeds.
Well, you see, this is actually because British engineers at the time of harrier development were able to defeat the engineer’s greatest foe, second only to maintenance staff and fabricators: physics.
Such a shame they lost this skill when it became time for chally 2 😿
Yeah. There are a number of examples of the Harrier literally breaking the laws of Physics/Aerodynamics and it forced BAE to question everything they knew.
Unfortuantely, Gaijin wont accept that the Harrier was different from a convetional jet and will model it accordingly. Real shame.
Only if Hawker Siddly had been allowed to construct an MBT. It would have probably been totally insane, Probably would have had 3 Gun barrels and was a half-track or something insane like that, but would have wiped the floor with the competition
This sentence and concept has hurt me in ways I had yet to learn of.
Engineers are actually fabricators worse enemy lmao.
Engineers have almost 0 foresight of how something needs to be made. Fabricators tell engineers how to redesign their work so it can actually be made.
