R.I.P kitty 🙁

haha i thought it will recive afterburners, what if it did?

:confused: 😎 :applause: :stupid:

The bold part I quoted in my last post! Slow speed = Kinetic performance! I’ve said this twice already! Slow speed maneuverability (handling) is okay if you’re lining up to land on a carrier in the middle of the Pacific in rough weather – but isn’t that useful when you’re up against another air superiority fighter at much higher speeds. If you’re in a Super Hornet and your opponent is a supersonic fighter capable of maneuvering at, and beyond supersonic speeds, you’re going to be in a world of hurt! Typhoons simulate launching BVR shots at Mach 1.6 at 40,000+ ft, the Super Hornet ain’t going to be launching anything like that. And I must stress that I’m not mentioning Typhoon for the sake of it or to derail the topic. It’s the way it is, Super Hornet lacks that kind of kinetic performance.

The Super Hornet has lots of range, not disputing that.

ok, got a little confused for the purposes. i read an article on the super honret about the block iii one, despite the chances are that if the super hornet gets the epe engines, it said: “The EPE should provide a 20% increase in thrust, cutting acceleration times, and improving the aircrafts performance, allowing better intercept and air to air performance against faster, higher targets. so really that’s what the epe engine is all about.

Indeed, all of those I agree with, apart from slow speed handling. When you’re up against another air superiority fighter be it in WVR or BVR, the last thing the pilot wants is slow speed handling.

yea definitely agree with you. with the right CONOPS on the Super Hornet, it will excel in the future. however the super hornet will indeed be effective and excel in air superiority with JHMCS, AIM-9x, AIM-120D, APG-79, maneuverability, slow speed handiling and a good pilot. This is what the super hornet will do good in for the next air to air warfare in the next coming years.

But in BVR and WVR this is where the super hornet definitely excels in air superiority, i’d rather take the super hornet in WVR combat. But still pretty damn good in BVR too, with APG-79 radar and its reduced RCS, the enemy won’t see the super hornet from a long distance and super gets first shot if it recives meteor.

although the super hornet isn’t a true stealth fighter, but lacks full stealth on the super hornet. Pretty much is why Boeing is proposing the stealth hornet but also increasing supers survivability and capabilities.

although i’m pretty sad the f-16 won’t be in service anymore. 🙁 it will be replaced by the f-35, but hopefully the f-35 can do the requirements the f-16 had 🙂

Super Hornet in Air Superiority load out/role

This is how the Super Hornet will dominate air superiority.

super hornet does dominate air superiority, but in order to dominate air superiority from the super hornet is JHMCS, AIM-9x, AIM-120D, APG-79 AESA Radar, Good pilot, maneuverability and slow speed handiling. But the super dominates the Multirole arena but it’s main capable roles is air superiority and ground attack which is superior in both main roles but the super hornet in tanker mode is good too.

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