Buff provided they have enough fuel onboard the raptor at 40k can do mach 1.5 all day , the only limiting factor is the range and it is for this reason that they mention the fact that it can do a 100nm over a 400-450nm Combat radius or a 50nm supercruise for a total radius of 500-550nm etc etc these are all permutations to give a minimum range requirment as ATF specified a particular range requirement with a particular range at supercruise obviously to maximize total range and radius they would have to slow down a tad bit and go subsonic, however most missions (training simulations) envolve supercruising 50-70nm to the first waypoint , tanking up , supercruising throughout the corridor of threat and RTB , or tanking before RTB . Another scenario that we might see in War-time is F-22’s going up with 2 external jugs , dropping them before entering combat , going supercruise througout the 200-250nm or so mission corridor (hypothetical) and RTB’in
Sorry, you are teaching a foolishman.
Let me think about these follow:
We hypothesis the fuel consume of F119 is amost equal to AĞ”-31 at max dry thrust without afterburner, then
1) We have known that internal fuel F-22 carried abit more than Cy-27.
2) According to the aerodynamic design, F-22 has less air drag than Cy-27
therewith, the result can be got is the period of TIME that F-22 can keeping flying must be longer than Cy-27.
Now the keypoint is, whether there two degree of fuel consume of F-119 at dry thrust, one is the lowest fuel consume, the other is higher?
If there is two degree, then we could say that thrust F-22 using at supercruise maybe not the thrust with the lowest fuel consume so that supercruise combat radius(or range) also is not the maximum radius(range).
But, if the thrust that F-22 using to do supercruise is the lowest degree of fuel consume, then consequentially, because of the supercruise speed is the the highest speed which F-22 using dry thrust without reheater(afterburner) can approach, we can say, only can say that combat radius is the maximum radius as F-22 doing supercruise.
My calculated results for that link is that reducing 10-15% fuel remain, we say F-22 doing supercruise without afterburner(reheater) for 2 hours and being at lowest fuel consume of turbofan synchronously, we can get a maximum range approximately to 3800 kilometers which is about 1200- 1300 kilometers of combat radius. This is also normal, not too long, not so small.
However, if these above is totally wrong, I think the combat radius which F-22 can get will be quite short.
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