forecast international has been wrong on so many things over the years that Gaijin refuses to use them as a source for anything. Their real sponsor is JANES.
All relevant sources have already been forwarded and reports have been made on all of the stuff you’ve discussed. In lieu of overwhelming amount of evidence Gaijin has made almost zero changes to the Phoenix and likely won’t.
“Sorry for the delay in responding. Although I never fired the AIM-54 in an exercise (I did launch them in a normal mode) it did have an ACM mode that gave it an active launch and higher maneuverability. So in effect it was like an AMRAAM.”
"Again we were at Top Gun over the desert doing gun defense maneuvers. When we got back to base and they checked the G meter it was pegged at 11.0. My pilot, Sluggo, complained of a bad back for a few days. They had to fly a new plane out from Oceana for us in Miramar. "
I abused the hell of F-14B and AIM-54A MK.60 when it was unnotchable/unchaffable and could fly Mach 4 at sea level in multiplayer. It was always fun to fire at 15 NM using horizontal ACM and then watch the missile (via F6) fly and manouver.
Depends on the aircraft just like WT, the 16C is still governed and in WT it cant jack it’s G loading in either title, stuff without FBW, F-14s, F-4s, the Mig-21, and others can all peak at far higher G loading just by ramming the stick back at certain airspeeds, the F-14 in particular used to be able to turn hard enough to cause your engines to implode and break all the instruments in the cockpit, but now the wings fail before such is achievable.