One question here. If EF2000 really has such good TWR, why does it seem so sluggish? Seen few performances of this bird, simply terribly disappointing, even less maneuvrable than F-18.
:confused: Hmm….. I must say I am quite surprised that post came from you…
I don’t know if you have seen an EF live flex – but it hardly seems sluggish to me at an airshow. I prefer its display to the F/A-18E/F. But thats perhaps because I’m personally not that impressed by high alpha performance. But rather transitioning seemlessly from maneuver to maneuver.
I actually saw the EF way back in 96 and 98. 96 it was really sluggish and the Rafale seem much better, much smoother (But all that was massively overshadowed by a ‘Terminator’ in the sky :D. You have one guess :p). Completely different in 98. Wow… the EF really threw itself and had lot of energy. And it seemed the difference was because in 96 it didn’t have the EJ. But EF demos after than go more and more conservative. But after 98 never saw it (or any other 4/4.5 gen a/c for that matter) live. Just internet videos.
But whatever the aircraft, can their maneuverability be judged on airshow stunts alone? Particularly, sustained high-speed, high-G at altitudes beyond the naked eye? I am not an aeronautical engineer but if the F-22 did her airshow stunts in a real battle, floating around it’d probably have an ASRAAM shoved up its rear end?
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