It got variable thrust depending on altitude
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The same place they discovered the Challenger 2s turret basket: they saw it in a dream
Seems we’re getting one of my favourite camos
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Wonder what that first camo is gonna be. “Anytime baby!” that could be literally anything
Pheonixes having varrying thrust based on altitude is fairly well known.
Its actually a principal all rockets have, due to how geometry on de lavel nozzles require specific atmospheric pressure in order to obtain optimal efficiency. Its just most missiles are generally optimized for a more midrange altitude, so its much less noticed.
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Tell them to check the drag.
It shouldn’t pull 180s turns.
Also, it can reach near 5 mach at very high altitude (launch at 25km alt) , that i don’t think any F-14 had the capability to go that high. The 5 mach we see on data /info on documents and sites are based on Tomcat launches.
That smells drag to me.
It would be a very logical number from a 15-16km launch at speed mach 2. Not from 25km and mach 2,4.
Assuming the engine is correct, that’s all drag.
God I hope 🙏 they stay like this on live 🤣
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I don’t see how increasing drag to a reasonable degree would stop the Phoenix from bruteforcing its way through the sky for 27 seconds. It’s doing what it’s designed to do.
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Still super easy to dodge for anything around transonic but yeah it would be silly fun to have Phoenixes like that
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These types of clips are fun and all but a single BOL chaff or tighter manuvering would have made the missile overshoot, and at that point the burn phase is already more than halfway done.
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The 54 like this will be so fun in Nuke Thunder with full matches 👹 target’s of opportunity a plenty!
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Imagine a nuking bomber closing in on your main base just laughing off all radar missiles that are fired at it until they see a single “F14” ping on their RWR before a Aim-54C ECCM guided in by the APG-71 snipes them from spawn.
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nuke capable bombers should not killable by long range ECCM AAM.
These beasts are huge so there should be enough room for a huge and really good ECM system.
I can’t imagine how the B 52 could be in service until today otherwise.
And they shouldn’t even face anything above 13.0 imo.
11.0 jets can intercept these bad boys rather easily already, even without AAM
only if the enemy SAM systems do not intercept any of your AIM 54 in time and your targets last long enough for your AAM to impact.
not if it’s been influenced by biased accounts, which it seems to be.
I mean too much drag. Drag doesn’t help slow down and turn better when have the negine power?
It wont, they cant let their precious Su30 Premiums suffer in the slightest 🥀
“Selective realism” With this update being around the corner All we can do is hope the snail does the right thing.
Sad to see P’s being locked behind the F/A-18’s only…
Quote from Warthunder website:
“Over 2,500 highly detailed aircraft, helicopters, ground vehicles, warships and other combat vehicles crafted carefully from historical documents and surviving sources.”
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lmao, are the biased accounts in the room with us now?
such a childish and hilarious was way to discredit something you’re unable to refute.
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It’s quite literally the truth of it, if htere are barely 60 accounts active on the thread yet almost 10x that voting, it shows there is a discrepancy there.
you do you but mate.