terufish

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   by terufish 9y ago

   Anything can exceed its design speed if you override or ignore the design guideline. I am sure the F-16 may well be faster than the number I gave, but an F-16 has like 20 minutes fuel, maximum, on afterburner. Add in flight time to target,
2. 2.▲
   by terufish 9y ago

   I think he's referring to the fact that you can get higher than "normal" speed if you dump your weapons and accept damage from the heat, either air friction heating the skin of your plane, or just your engine temperatures. Yo
3. 3.▲
   by terufish 9y ago

   The F-16 values are from actual aircraft operations. I don't know what an MBT is or how it relates to aircraft.
4. 4.▲
   by terufish 9y ago

   Be careful with the "top" speeds of military jets. The F-16 claims mach 2+ but it cannot do this with any realistic combat load or mission profile. The vast majority of its time will be spent subsonic, with mere seconds at mach 1.