The 1.5x limit is to account for safety margins that designs and manuals include
But the 9G limiter is an electronic limiter and wouldn’t involve any “margins”
The ability to momentarily go above 9G (due to the control system shortcomings) is:
1- Limited in time
2- Limited in amount (IIRC from pilot accounts you could get 1 or 2 extra Gs for a short period of time)
In the game it goes way way beyond that …
And they could easily model that BTW. I.e. allow it to pull 1 or 2 extra Gs for a limited amount of time if the pilot applies full pitch input at high speeds.
(In fact IIRC it was already modeled … You could get a bit more than 9G and without time limit actually, especially with SB controls …)
I think they removed it to make it more conventional and similar to other planes for the players …
Because while it was modeled there was a “Wall” at ~840 km/h or so where below it you could reach 9G, but performance fell off incredibly quickly above it so there was effectively a hard cap on the energy that you could use in a dogfight since going in faster than than the corner meant the turn radius you had was massive and there was no way to dump energy fast enough to be competitive in a one or two circle fight due to the disparity in performance to contemporary airframes like the Mig-29 and others that were not impacted.
Which basically meant that the F-16 could be dealt with by rote, either by turning hard if it was going too fast, or climbing if it was slow to gain separation and stalling it out with the energy difference and there was nothing it could do to punish the opponent due to the AIM-9L’s not being able to deal with flares and limited access to SARHs (which have their own host of issues).
Precisely, this seeker is somehow housing 25x time optics, and high resolution thermals found in thermal gun pods. It doesn’t make much sense as to why anyone would spend so many resources on a seeker that’s going to get vaporized.
well strapping a litening 5 pod to an atacms would still be 3 times cheaper than a single kinzal so dont know 1,700,000+1,400,000=3.1 million vs 10 million
Find me a legit 2.2M missile with IR + IOG and we can talk. Obviously they thought those planes do need something like that.
Everyone having same missiles while having better FMs as well would be pretty fun. I guess you’re yet another person that failed to understand what is asymmetrical balancing.
