Question to those of y'all with supersonic jets: Does warthunder model wing rip speed varying with altitude?

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Hello!

I don’t have a plane to reasonably test it with, nor familiar enough with the jets in game to do so with reproducible data. In Ferram Aerospace/KSP, I know that flying almost mach 2-3 at sea level and turning over 3 G means imminent death, while doing it at 20 km altitude lets you correct course with relative safety

This is mostly just a personal curiosity. I imagine it does since the stat card says max speed is dependent on IAS, and IAS varies with altitude but I want to make sure before I say sth dumb about usefulness of barometric altitude readouts.

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It does affect it, yes. You can go faster at higher altitudes. At sea level you can hit around 1.2M with most planes. At altitude you can go much faster. A M2K will rip it’s wings at around 1.3M at sea level, but can go faster than that at altitude.

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Sure does - max/rip speed are much lower at treetop height than 30,000 ft.

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There are three speed indicators in the game: IAS, TAS, and Mach. You can imagine why.