The F-16’s low-altitude top speed is about Mach 1.2 with the J-10, and the difference in engine thrust is also very small, but the acceleration of the F-16 after Mach 1 is still much faster than that of the J-10, which should not be
F-16低空极速与J-10同样为1.2马赫左右，发动机推力区别也很小，但F-16一马赫后的加速度依然比J-10快很多，这是不应该的
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Wow almost like these 2 aircraft are not the same, crazy
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f16没问题
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Not F16 problem but J10 problem, J10 acceleration is like 1/2 of what F16 is RN, J10 speeding up to the same speed at same altitude could be almost a minute slower than some of the current planes.
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its probably not final
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Yes, but not reacting and fighting can be the end result
Unless its an american plane, they wont care regardless.
Though I fairly doubt they will release this plane in a bad state. Finally some unique plane in the chinese tree will make people grind it
lmao，Here’s the thing. American planes have Russian planes and European planes at one table and China at the other. gaijing’s bias causes Chinese vehicles not to have the power they should have
Apparently they have sources of the pilot which states that the max speed at lower altitudes is in fact 1480km/h not 1550 and that means it suffers a lot more from drawing near the max speed than other planes.
It is actually cause they have stuff to back it up and they said this was perfectly true IRL, we are trying to say this is wrong but primary sources are scarce.
IMO 1453km/h is the disintergration speed at low air, that the test pilot observed fuel leakage and rivets moving out, and he decided to pull back the throttle to maintain the speed.
The source Gaijin released also didn’t contain descriptions on J10A’s acceleration ability iirc.
After all, an interview cannot be considered as valid source. I did made an issue on that but they rejected it for no reason.
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This is more about J10 than F16 I think, J10 currently has a weird drag coefficient, which seem to be due to the 1480km/h max speed and the source is apparently a pilot interview which said max speed was lower than 1500. is there any reason for J10 to be almost 3 times as slow as F16. Any way can you show us why it is so slow after supersonic?
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We used the sources cited by the development team as data to point out errors, but they were all rejected. But the details are classified. * But at the same time, f16 has public information, according to the production method of j10, f16 speed is lower than j10.
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They said (devs on non official channels) apparently they have pilot (test flight) interview which stated 1.15 mach in low altitude top speed and we were trying to correct by saying he actually pulled back at 1.15 mach due to mechanical failure and not that it’s not sufficient thrust to go faster. The devs implemented this by adding huge drag coefficient.
M1.2 is the estimated top speed at sea level, at least according to 1 of my books on Chinese aircraft. M1.15 is low balling, but M1.25 was likely too high. I can dig around some more this weekend to see if any of my other books list a top speed.
Depending on how low, F16 was estimated 1.2 mach at ‘exactly 0m altitude’ which is obviously impossible IRL, plus J10 also performs 60% worse in acceleration at 5000 m altitude.
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Acceleration is exactly what i am worried about. Top speed is roughly the same, but the acceleration difference is killer. If somebody has Fusion360 + AutodeskCFD they could run a CFD simulation on a rough J-10 A model to get computed drag at different airspeeds. That would prove the devs are incorrect.
Source?