My source is the God-damn Gromov Flight Institute.
Links please
80k lbs of thrust is a LOT more than you might think
The SR-71’s J58 output 32,500 lbs
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Got two a deez
Sorry, 33k lbs • 2 engines is 66k, still a positive TWR, at 1.1 ish.
Now go redo all your napkin math, this time don’t forget drag
The MiG-1.44 was severely underpowered for what a chonker airframe it was
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The planned engines where massive, but those numbers arent factual
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Yeah the Soyuz FG has the TWR of 1.62 lol
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Not to mention there is a difference between uninstalled vs installed power
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2 engines doesn’t equate to exactly 66 aswell there is going to be loss in thrust and the output won’t be double of a single engine.
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The Mig 1.44 is a direct competitor of an X-wing
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The X-Wing actually has a stupid high drag coefficient so according to that post the 1.44 is a literal UFO capable of space travel
0.45, a literal sphere a has a lower drag coefficient than the X-Wing lol
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Yeah your right but with those numbers the 1.44 will have no problem with interstellar travel.
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This is my new deaktop background that is too funny.
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Plen go neoom in space
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1.75 TWR is Bs, but underpowered no.
Wikipedia data gives 2 * 177kn, which is 1.26 T/W with 28600kg gross weight.
If those values are accurate with 5-15% thrust losses T/W ranges from 1.19 to 1.07.
These are far more normal numbers, which would put this plane in the upper end of modern jet fighters, but not space rocket T/W
Still it’s wikipedia
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Problem with those numbers is it states that the engine can produce 40,000 thrust contradicting our source above so can’t even trust those numbers.
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If you meant the source that says 33000 pounds that Al41 is the Su-57’s one
They are probably going to start adding planes like this once they run out of production aircraft and its going to be like xp-50 all over where prototypes will shit on everything. This is years in the future anyway