Eurofighters have helmet visors and can cue IRIS-T missiles at huge off-boresight angles. Who needs gunshot videos if he can aim, lock on, fire and kill long before?
The two perspectives are perfectly compatible if you assume that the F-22 drivers went for gun shot kills and the EF drivers went for IRIS-T lock-on kills.
The latter is much more relevant to actual combat, of course.
Not completely. A HOBS-heater shot as the end-all-be-all assumes one always sees the opponent and of course still has some HOBS-heaters on-board to shoot. But yeah, HOBS-heaters are pretty deadly. The other observation in all of this is to note how the F-35 would bring nothing of value to a WVR environment let alone any other parts of an air-to-air scenario.
5 comments:
Not sure how many have already viewed this particular F-22 ACM training vid... but it's worth the watch for any enthusiast who hasn't yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOl_r7FGMQg
Skip to 2:30, around 5:30 and then 7:30 for actual ACM maneuvering shots.
Not bad in a worse case phone booth scenario... and arguably better than the F-15 and standard F-16 at least.
Now enter an F-16 with GE-132 and TVC and it might be interesting to see how competitive in performance such an upgrade might be?
Gun shots are irrelevant.
Eurofighters have helmet visors and can cue IRIS-T missiles at huge off-boresight angles. Who needs gunshot videos if he can aim, lock on, fire and kill long before?
The two perspectives are perfectly compatible if you assume that the F-22 drivers went for gun shot kills and the EF drivers went for IRIS-T lock-on kills.
The latter is much more relevant to actual combat, of course.
Not completely. A HOBS-heater shot as the end-all-be-all assumes one always sees the opponent and of course still has some HOBS-heaters on-board to shoot.
But yeah, HOBS-heaters are pretty deadly.
The other observation in all of this is to note how the F-35 would bring nothing of value to a WVR environment let alone any other parts of an air-to-air scenario.
Except its own HOBS, turn performance between an F-16 and F-18, and the observability to turn up to a merge undetected by fighter radars.
FLASEHEART, +1.
Post a Comment