From Heorot quote :

""This, it believes, would provide data to back up its claims that TVN could reduce fuel burn on a typical Typhoon mission by up to 5%, as well as increase available thrust in supercruise by up to 7% and take-off thrust by 2%.""

This has nothing to do with TVC but it is a good trick ...

 

usajoe :

""LOL!!! why do you pull stuff out of you A@#  kid? and where did you get those stupid numbers?

Cheers .

 

We are doing again...

 

It is a new Rafale Thread.

 

Maruben , there are plenty other threads to read . If you don 't want to participate you know what to do .

 

Cheers .

Maruben , is it now forbidden to talk about Rafale ?

 

Cheers .

Maruben , is it now forbidden to talk about Rafale ?

No, it is not, however I think that the SYSOP's decision is a wise one. I mean Rafale as a topic need to have a recess. Honestly the discussion about Rafale was not good and unnecessarily rude and stealing from other topics. The worst part has been the fact sad that any thread on warplain ended as Rafale thread and even if the thread that started quite well many times ended as a BS throwing contest.

 On the different topic, where is Herald?

 

Cheers.

Until I see a F-35-A and/or C with external stores making 5g turns at Mach 1.2 @5000ft or at Mach 1.4@ 35000ft , allow me to doubt .

And the point of an F-35 doing this would be what exactly???

I very much doubt any jet would be doing this in a combat scenario.

 

Why the sudden turn at fairly high-g? Were they caught unawares from behind as if the missile/plane was only a matter of seconds from impacting their rear? Were their onboard/offboard data so compromised that the F-35 didn't get a "heads-up" sooner?

 

I'd suggest that if the jet described found itself in the "no escape zone" then it is game over, regardless of who the manufacturer of said plane was.

 

Curious.

you whine to the greater audience that you want to be taken seriously and yet you post nonsense like this as a defence of your position.?

what relevance is there to arguing about whether a 4th gen platform with no internal weapons carriage flying dirty and doing 5g turns against a 5th gen platform where internal carriage is a design element of its signature management.

apart from the fact that any platform with external carriage is going to be lit up like an angler fish in a goldfish bowl, what tactical message are you trying to tell everyone?