Questions about the energy conservation of Mystere 2/4/super series

I’m currently focusing on early French jets.

But… there’s a big problem with mystere series.

Slow acceleration? ehh… no

Well, it’s a clear cons…nevertheless that’s bearable, because those shortcomings were common in the early jet age

The real downside is that energy conservation is ridiculously poor.
I was really confused in this part.

Compared to sabre around the same time, it has the same low-wing type of wing shape, it’s a swept wing, and it has an air inlet at the front.

however, there is a significant difference in energy consumption when turning.

So I looked around the FM chart of the aircraft and I got a feeling that something was similar to the delta wing.

I’m not an aircraft expert, so I don’t know exactly, but the Mystere fighter, especially the 4 and super series, felt like there is something strange wrong part of FM.

umm… Is this really normal?
If anyone is knowledgeable about aviation, I would really appreciate it if could check it out.

Yeah these definitely bleed too much speed, gotta be their biggest issue.
And I can’t see what’s so different between the mysteres wing configuration and others similar jets, so the fm gotta be inaccurate

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Aight… I’ll test sustained turning.
15.3 degrees per second on 20 minutes fuel for Super Mystere B2. It’s not as good as LIM-5P, but it seems about average.
Definitely better than A-4H. Better than Mig-21F-13’s 13.4 degrees per second of STR.
So it’s clearly not bleeding as much speed as deltas with similar or even slightly better TWRs.

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AoA is high, so energy bleeding seems to be a little high… thanks for your FM test :)

Might need to control your AOA more finely in matches then.
Good luck with your matches.

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Thx about your answer (‘∀‘ )

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