Acceleration and time

Poster Andraxxus over on the Key Publishing forum has an interesting take on acceleration of a variety of both combat aircraft and those hoping to be combat aircraft.

Side notes:
F-16 blk50 (2xAIM-120s or AIM-9s), data is taken from flight manual; but linearly interpolated for required weight and mach number.
F-15E PW229 (4xAIM-7s), data is taken from flight manual acceleration graph; but linearly interpolated for required altitude.
F-18C (2xAIM-7 2xAIM-9) and F-18E (AIM-120, 2x AIM-9) data is directly taken flight manual.
F-5E data is taken from flight manual, interpolated for required altitude.
Mig-29 (2xR-60+4 pylons): acceleration values deviated from excess power graphs as the manual suggests.
Su-27 (2xR-73): acceleration values deviated from excess power graphs same way MiG-29 manual suggests.
Mig-23ML (2xR-23): acceleration taken from manual, interpolated for altitude.

F-22 and F-35, are estimates based on static T/W, intake configuration, my own estimates about drag, etc etc. No sources, its ok to ignore them both.

Altitude is 30k feet; all aircraft carry 50% fuel plus the mentioned payloads.

The MiG-23 was always a rocket... a really...really scary (as in unsafe) rocket. I would have to say that the F-15E in that chart is without the conformals. Big-motor F-15Es have big performance without the conformals.

Interesting when comparing to the chart on this page.



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