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At medium load (halfway between empty weight and MTOW) the thrust to weight ratio of the EF is 1.22 and the of the F22 its 1.23. Once the planes get lighter the TtW start favoring the EF slightly. RCS and aerodynamics are competing design requirements, you can't optimize for one without hurting the other. We are past the heavy tradeoffs required in the F117s design for instance, but the principle still stands.

At medium load the F22 and EF have almost the same TtW, but the EF has lower drag by having lower wing loading and by not being a stealth design, so I wouldn't be surprised if it actually beat it*. EDIT: *In a clean configuration only, due to external vs internal weapon stations

And I get the impression you never did fly BvR engagements where you have to defeat an incoming missile by diving, turning, then... climbing and accelerating to improve the PK of your next missile

Are you sure high altitudes are an actual problem for the meteor? Wouldn't low oxygen just slow the burn which would be ok for long range shots and could otherwise be compensated for to a degree with the variable throttle? The service ceiling for the EF is angels 65 and it is optimized for high altitude fights, so I'd be surprised if its primary weapon didn't work in that environment. Yes, the AMRAAM has a higher peak velocity, but it stays there for a rather short time, if the simulation in DCS is anything to go by. EDIT: Actually both are rated mach 4, but true specs are unknown.

That higher max speed is mostly an advantage on paper since its almost never reached and came from the perceived necessity of beating an overestimated Mig-25. Fighter designers agree, as no modern fighter is mach 2.5 capable, the tradeoffs to reach that are not worth it. The EF is faster in all aspects that matter. Take if from the test pilot that flew both. The greater range on the Eagle is nice, but even short legged planes like the F16 are used very successfully thanks to flying gas stations. And you are dead wrong regarding the Meteor or rather throttle-able ramjet missiles. Conventional missiles like the AMRAAM burn for the first few seconds after launch and then basically coast to the target, losing energy, especially if maneuvering is required. Being able to control burn rate of a missiles motor provides a lot of of options for increased lethality like adjusting for total flight time, negating the loss of energy when turning, increasing speed during the last few seconds to impact etc. This is a game-changer and calling the Meteor an AMRAAM is misinformed at best.

You are forgetting the Eurofighter. It came two decades later as the European answer to the Flanker (which was itself a response to the Eagle), with all the benefits of technological progress this allows. It's kinetic performance is undoubtedly better. It can out-accelerate and out-climb the Eagle while being more maneuverable and having greater pylon capacity than the C, not to mention lower RCS, FWIW. Its trickier to compare sensors and electronics as there are many variants and upgrade levels on both aircraft and we lack hard data on the more interesting, recent systems. As for AA weapons there is an overlap/parity, with the glaring exception of the Meteor, which as of now has no equivalent on the US side.

Gero said in one of the podcasts that a lot can be gleaned from videos showing the EF peforming maneuvers at airshows etc. They have aerodynamics specialists dissecting these videos. And this type of reverse engineering is acceptable by Netma as it is based on public sources, TG/HB just has to document where they got each piece of the puzzle from.

Indeed, the EF has the lowest wing loading at MTOW and 50% load of all modern western fighters. In fact the only fighter that matches both the EFs WL and TTW at 50% load is the Su-57.

I did some more test and have a correction to make: I get around 45fps down in the weeds and 55-60 up high.

I have the Reverb G2 and a 3080. Running on mostly high settings, full resolution, MSAA 2X and PD of 100% I get roughly 50-70fps on offline caucasus, which to me offers the best compromise of quality and smoothness. I'm very happy now that I didn't settle for a lower GPU (I wasn't planning on getting into VR when I bought it).

Note that after rebooting the key GameDVR_Enabled might reset to 1 unless you also turn of game recording in your Windows Game bar settings. In my setup (1070GTX, UWQHD screen, Win10 1909) these changes had no impact on fps at all.