I know that, but why is its speed higher than advertised? All its specifications are publicly available on the official website.
my bad, put an extra zero there. It matches in-game top speed perfectly
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
Ok, a bit of info. First of all, mach speed is different for different altitude. Second of all, you are looking at the statcard. Statcard is a separate entity from the missile and can contain absolute gibberish. In-game performance of the Kh-31P matches the info from ROE website.
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Are you kidding?
bro hung up on that single statcard number that can’t even be reached in-game and ignores the fact that missile has literally same top speed in-game as advertised by ROE
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gaijin just putting the wrong info on the statcard in game, even the missile in game cant do what the stat card claims
1000 m/s in Mach depends on the speed of sound, which changes with temperature and altitude.
Under standard sea level conditions (about 20°C), the speed of sound is approximately 343 m/s.
So:
M=1000343≈2.92M = \frac{1000}{343} \approx 2.92M=3431000≈2.92
Result: ~Mach 2.9
If conditions change:
- In colder air (lower speed of sound) → Mach number is slightly higher (~3.0+)
- At higher altitude (also lower speed of sound) → Mach number increases as well
So your value of ~2.94 Mach is already very accurate — the small difference comes from using slightly different standard atmosphere assumptions (340 vs 343 m/s).
For a speed of 1000 m/s, the variation caused by temperature and altitude is usually like this:
approximately Mach 2.9 → Mach 3.3
meaning a difference of about ±0.2–0.25 Mach from the average
Even in extremely cold conditions, you would still only reach around Mach 3.3–3.4, not anything like a +1.5 Mach increase.
I literally said to you that statcard doesn’t represent in-game behavior of a missile. In-game it caps out at 1000 m/s or 3600 km/h, there is no Mach 4.5 in-game, otside of stupid number in a statcard that doesn’t mean anything!
NEVER take statcard numbers at the face value, they are meaningless
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What this?
Bro… are you for real? Kh-31P and Kh-31PD are DIFFERENT MISSILES. Kh-31PD has longer fuselage, increased payload and STRONGER ENGINE that allows better top speed
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Kh-31PD
maximum / peak speed 1000–1100 m/s
which is approximately Mach 3.0–3.3 (sometimes slightly higher in some estimates)
But not like 3.9 Mach.
where the hell did you get 3.9 Mach!?
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Thanks I will probably get once I reach br 11.7 to complement by ground forces and grind to SM2 level.
You haven’t played a lot of air, haven’t you?
And I couldn’t find any official information about the Kh-31PD. There’s only information about the Kh-31P.
There is literally ROE video about Kh-31PD that states 1100 meters per second. Which is again, correct to the in-game values
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If gaijin would model engine jettison and ramjet activation it would so goddamn cool
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