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Okay cheers.

Yeah sure that will work, although you are taking a risk by reducing SEP. Planes can already pull 9g STR across a broad range of speeds, so here we're back to a situation where you temporarily escape, bleeding SEP but then the opponent climbs out and dives back in again.

Makes no difference. By vectoring with one nozzle only, he can roll and then pitch as normal to achieve the effect of 3D vectoring. The fly-by-wire will do that automatically.

That's exactly the case. I did a complete re-install about a week or so ago because DCS wasn't loading at all.

My point was that any rapid energy bleeding manoeuvre can save you temporarily (TV or not) but it's not a great idea. Simply false. It's the commonly touted ability of TV yet we saw in the F-22 vs Rafale video that it isn't the case. That's just plain wrong-minded thinking. If he climbs he's maintaining his SEP, his KE is turned to PE. You have thrown both KE and likely some PE. You can accelerate again but so can he. He'll always have more energy than you after that point. The next meet will be him descending on you from altitude whilst you're still recouping lost energy.

It can save his life but only temporarily, in the same way that any energy bleeding manoeuvre can. (Unless the adversary is stupid enough to bleed their own energy to try stay on their tail.)

There's no points for second best. I'm most surprised the F-22 didn't just use his TV to point his aircraft at the Rafale and fire a missile. I've been told many times that this is possible.:megalol::megalol:

Special excuses edition. F-22s had external tanks?:megalol: Watched it in slow motion on full screen, no tanks anywhere to be seen. Anyone see these two huge tanks sticking out from the wings in the video?

LOL. You're right. The end is wrong for an M197. What's on pylon 4?

Ah okay, the MD version is IR but the point still stands, missiles don't insta-lock and as you can see, during the spin, you'll very quickly lose sight of the opponent. Not a great g limit. Don't they have an AAM capable of more than 30g? An IRIS-T is capable of 60g. TV is for cruise efficiency and supersonic BVR manoeuvring where you can't already pull 9g STRs and even then it isn't going to sway the odds if your wings are half the area of the opposing fighters. A 60-70,000lf powerplant can't overcome a wing loading deficit equal 20 or 30% of the aircraft's weight during a 9g turn. During a supersonic turn at 3g, then it becomes more important since the pilot is not at their limit, the vectored thrust is a more significant portion of overall loading and a useful improvment in STR can be seen by reducing drag.

^Holy heck, there's some interesting stuff on that, Left-to-right: 1. Hydra pod. 2. SDB??? 3. M197 20mm Gatling gun as per Cobra. 4. ??? 5. As 2. 6. Hellfire(?) and 4xAPKWS II.

And at what point does that have a enough time to lock while the aircraft is spinning, assuming it's ever even pointing in the right direction? Surely you'd be best using an IR missile in a dogfight anyway. They're more manoeuvrable and the Pk of radar missiles is worse than bad. This assumes that you don't get nailed on cannon or by someone else while you're flopping about. SEP is still the most important principle of dog-fighting.

Sometimes pointing up, pointing in the wrong direction, degrees > 180. Track attached. It's when I go for the GAZ-66 group (TRK waypoint 7) and a couple of other times. Seems to do it a lot on this mission. Strange HUD SPI.trk

What happens if someone just climbs when all that energy bleeding is going on? Impressive to watch though.

Weird rectangular holes?

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What gun pod is that? Are those rocket launchers underneath it?

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/atk-and-alenia-aermacchi-successfully-complete-phase-1-testing-of-mc-27j-211534881.html

1200mph (1.6 x 765mph), when really it should have been about 1.6 x 664mph. That's still faster than I thought. 1800/765mph* = Mach 2.35 *Which is wrong because 765mph is sonic at sea level but nevertheless what they did. I guess it's not too surprising because Mach 2 always seemed pessimistic.

http://news.yahoo.com/twa-flight-800-investigators-claim-official-crash-story-120157562.html

Is it? Because that's quite extraordinary if it is. That would equate to just over Mach 2.7 at altitude. I assumed they'd just took an altitude Mach figure and then converted using the speed of sound at ground level and hence screwed it up. They also had the F-35B down for 1200mph.