Average flight speed = max speed?
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You might give them a picture with that as well, so there’s the maximum chance they’ll understand. To me this looks like an average speed of M1.1 over the maximum range.
I guess confirmation bias is such a strong phenomenon that it makes people lose the ability to read and understand plain English.
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From the same Wikipedia page:
@Armen_Lozone
This doesn’t seem to be case though. Check the colors in the rectangle I drawn, it appears that the colors are pretty much unified until the smaller metallic ring is reached right around the seeker.
Even in this low quality picture, that smaller metallic ring is sticking out as a sore thumb, while the bigger ring which is made out of the same material can’t be seen at all.
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good morning aviators, still no proof the Kh-38MT exists?
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It exist already.
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oh theres finally proof? I’d like to see that
Check few posts back. Its disscussed here.
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only thing I found is the mockup or a brochure image. thats not valid proof
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To me it still sticks out pretty clearly…
Don’t know what to make of it but it’s sus
Only thing that sticks out pretty clearly is the smaller ring. You can look at the bottom half of the missile where there’s much less sunlight present, and all you can see is the small ring followed by something with clearly different color.
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So… is this proof that it exists? If so, good work!
I mean you can say that but nothing can remove the blatantly different colours between the whole seeker head and the body.
Some small area may slightly match but even that is a different colour if you look closely
Go higher. There is whole brochure posted by Chinese guy.
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Not really.
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How high? I think i might’ve seen it
It was posted yesterday.
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Aight
Again, look at the rectangle I made and look at the color palette from the front all the way to the back of the rectangle.
Things stay the same until you reach that smaller ring.
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I live in australia so ‘yesterday’ is subjective lol…
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I don’t think it’s that fast, don’t forget that drag is proportional to velocity squared (let alone when supersonic), and since the motor won’t be burning for the entire duration it’s going to be coasting the majority of that distance and as such that would means that the peak speed would have to be even higher for it to have an average speed of Mach 1.1.
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Ah yes. You are right. Like 15 hours ago? I dont remember exactly.