None could sustain that, it is just a temporary achievement from the momentum before “controlled” flight is departed.

The F-35 can sustain 55 deg, though it wouldn’t be useful, but it is a testimony to its FCS. The F-18’s sustained AoA is more in the 35-45deg range.

Of course, the AN/ALR-94 cannot cue a radar guided AAM.

IF the F-22 had IRST, and IF the F-22 had long ranged IR AAMs… like say a R-27ET… then cues can be made from passive sensors.

Be careful applying sweeping generalisations. 🙂

Actually that’s not correct on several counts(both the ALR-94 and on the AAMs). An AMRAAM shot can be made several ways- the F-22 can illuminate the target until impact, it(or a third party) can provide datalink info until the missile is close enough to go active, a third party can provide the guidance, it can be fired using HOJ, and it can be fired using information from the ALR-94. The -C7 AMRAAM is by no means a short ranged missile, and the -D will be even longer ranged.

Which one, then? F-16 or F/A-18? There is a rather big gap between agilities of those two aircraft, you know.

Either. It has greater sustained and instantaneous turn rates, and quicker acceleration, combined with greater post stall performance, longer range, and far more capable sensors.

You still do not grasp it, do you?! It is the drag versus thrust ratio at first to give the edge. The main drag is the frontal drag. The reason why most fighters look like long tubes at first to get the desired slenderness ratio.
The weight is just one issue related to drag. To generate the lift to overcome the weight does cause drag. With FBW it is no longer the same handycap as it was before in the horizontal axis, when it gives a higher kinetic energy in the vertical axis at first.

I do grasp it. I’m just disagreeing that the F-35 is as draggy as many assert.

In a real combat mission, that were emptied first and released. 😉

When I remember well, the F-111 was one of the last non stealth fighters designed with a limited weapons-bay and even that was used for extra fuel at first.
When internal carriage is an advantage in general, we had seen such fighter designs for decades.

Once they drop their weapons, they might have a great T/W ratio, but they’re unarmed at that point. It’s disengenuous to compare their clean T/W ratio with a loaded F-35. The F-35’s a lot lighter once it’s weapons have been dropped as well, and has used some of its fuel.

Not lies, but very misleading- there is no indication of what the scale of the graphs, nor, more importantly, the zero point from which they measured and the units on the acceleration (and lower is better- that’s rather unconventional). The charts are essentially useless- other than allowing us to order the aircraft by performance in an unspecified condition (clean/loaded?, amount of fuel?, etc…).

If I ever tried to do this in a lab report back in my college days, I would have received a nasty mark-down and rightly so.

I understand that, but for an unclassified briefing slide, you’re just not going to get that kind of detail. You’ll get a composite snap shot.

Colorful pics, but they don’t contain any numbers to discuss,
i.e fighter X accelerate this and that in Y seconds,
in all likelyhood a clever idea/necessity from LM PR department…

Why would there be a necessity for LM’s PR department? The graphs are a quick visual reference. Putting numbers in won’t change the outcomes, unless you’re suggesting that they’re outright lies.

I was curious about comparing 29K now in service with Russian and Indian navies, to its western contemporaries, mainly Supper Bug and Rafale. While in terms of the airframe, range , payload etc, K can hold its own.. its seams to me its biggest set back is in its nose. Zhuk-ME lacks behind RBE2 , and not to mention APG79. In terms of EW, K can not match up to SPECTRA or super bug (lets not bring growlers to discussion as its diferent class of aircraft).

Now this got me thinking, Israelies have some brilliant kit that Uncle Sam will not allow them to tinker with on F16/15 like EL-2052. Not to mention that they are already using very capable EW suites on the aircraft above. So my hypotetical question is, how much more capable would K be if Israel/Rafael was given a chance to tinker with it. Could you equip EL2052 to K and still be able to use RVV-AE and other Russian weapons, in addition to ones from Israel?

If Israel were given carte blanche to upgrade a Mig 29, it could be very capable. The problem I see though is that they’d probably be pretty picky about whose Migs that they upgraded.