What can save American top tier air?

…clean without pylons

gaijin would add this to counter for sure

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0.85 twr monster

that goes same for the typhoon

No the typhoon’s speed ratings were done at a full air to air combat load lol

so whats its clean speed ?

shrug

will it matter when you can get speeds like mach 2.5

i dont think it could be faster than 2.5 due to structural heating

2.8 for the fox hound

just put a lower number because you know, in the game we cant get to these speed everytime

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sadly yeah wave drag is a pain

It’s unlikely to reach 2.5 practically anyways despite being fully capable of it in the same regard it can supercruise at mach 1.5 (can’t in game lol) but it would either be one hell of an acceleration run or you’d boost it up there with a/b. Bit pointless in the first place to go that fast anyways. Core point is the 15EX wouldn’t be exceptionally fast in any regard. I’d be more worried about F-22/35 as they are aerodynamically clean and known to be very kinematically strong.

false
look at the mig25, irl is limited to 2.7 mach, in game it can do 3.1 or 3.0

F-35 would be slow. Its top speed was something around mach 1.6(let me check). F-22 on other hand would be very fast

F-15E in the game is also very fast, but it’s not really an advantage. Yes, it climbs and accelerates pretty quickly, but once at high altitude and above Mach 1.1 it’s a brick. To notch any missiles you literally have to disable the AoA limiter and use air brakes, and even then it takes a lot of time to turn sideways to the incoming missile.

F-15EX would suffer from this issue even more as it is heavier and has even more powerful engines.
Of course it has a ton of missiles, but then again BVR barely exist in a game where you can easily notch any incoming missile in a platform that isn’t a jet powered flying brick.

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on deck at low alts you can super cruise it ive never tested at higher alts

F14B with manual wing sweep can super cruise

“It” = the typhoon, which is in game and can demonstrably be unlikely to reach 2.5

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canards are not know for being very good at extreme speeds

what

short answer is you’re wrong
I can provide long answer if you’re interested

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