Comments by "the truth hurts" (@thetruthhurts7675) on "How real is Top Gun? Active US fighter pilot breaks down movie" video.

Speed is NOT everything in the fighter aircraft world, it is still about agility. The F15 Eagle (1976) was the fastest US fighter jet ever built, and the Mig 25 was the fastest Russian jet ever built. The English Electric Lightning was faster than the F35, ot the Typhoon, it could do mach 2 whilst the others only Mach 1.6 fot the F35 and Mach 1.8 for the interceptor version of the Typhoon. Aircraft have been getting slower since the Lightning, F14, and Mig 25 foxhound
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@gtr5860 What is your point here? F18 1.8 mach, F35 1,6 Mach!! in order oldest first, and newest, and slowest last.
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@gtr5860 Yet you didn't give me the two fastest fighter, or experimental jets the USA ever had. I would have bowed to your knowledge if you had given me either the NASA/USAF X15 the fastest fighter jet in the world, or the SR 72 with guns, and missiles, which it was originally designed to have. I guess you just cherry pick though don't you? Because the fastest fighter the USA actually ever had was the SR71. Once again I would have bowed to your knowledge. Plus as the F15 was first manufactured on January 9th 1976, to be honest it still backs my point that since the 1970's ALL fighter aircraft have been getting slower, because speed is not king in the air, but agility.
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@moistman6930 The EE lightening was the very first aircraft capable of supercruise. So what is your point here? Super cruise just means it can cruise at speeds higher than Mach 1 or supersonically. The EE lightening was the very first aircraft in the world to do this!! Agility IS way more important than the ability to not be seen on a radar, there are only two aircraft in the world that can not be seen by modern fighter radar, the F35, and the Harrier Jump jet. Modern radar are doppler based, so both the Harrier, and the F35 can stop in mid air, ths disappearing from Doppler radar. Alll fighting is done subsonically, in fact only 1% of dog fights since WW2 have been above the speed of sound, and none of those were missile fights either!!. The Typhoon, and in fact all modern fighter aircraft have sophistcated proceedures to avoid being splashed by BVR, which in fact accounts for less than 0.001% of all combat since WW2. Processors can react faster than missile systems can alter course, or have you not noticed that the ultimate idea for flight is people less fighter aircraft? Why turn as slowly as a Spitfire in a fight? The Typhoon is the only aircraft that can accelerate through +9Gee turns, amd then go straight through -5Gee. That would fold a Spitfire up in mid flight, and spit out the dead pilot!!
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@fairtreatment2618 Well that is why I used the Laughing Emoji!!
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@moistman6930 What are you on about? Who says the Typhoon can do mach2.5? If you say me then do please repost my statement here, otherwise you are just a fool who is trolling!!
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@moistman6930 This one? "moistman69 moistman69 47 minutes ago @the truth hurts Oh yeah, and the EF Typhoon can go Mach 2.2-2.5" But I never said the Typhoon can go at Mach 2.5 what drugs are you taking? I wrote this to be precise : "English Electric Lightning was faster than the F35, ot the Typhoon, it could do mach 2" So I am afraid it is you who is wrong here. My repost is from my original post on this thread. So stop trolling and stop taking whatever drugs you are on it isn't helping you at this time!! Nothing you have said is coherent or even close to right!!
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@curiousnomadic Thank you for pointing this out. However it still does prove my point that fighters have been getting slower not faster since the 1970's. Name one that has been faster since the 1970's except for an experimental aircraft. There aren't any. Even the Blackbird was a child of the 1960's and this incessant chase for speed. Because people don't read what I have written since, I have changed what i originally put on this thread.
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@brandondaway1 Ok so whilst both Radar will pick up an image of the Harrier, the F35 has a reflected image smaller than a bird. When both are stationary they are very difficult to find in all of the clatter in a fighting front line. Doppler radar uses the doppler effect to spot something moving very fast (a fighter jet) the harrier is known to have ambushed Russian made aircraft with doppler radar, and pulsed doppler radar. Here is description of just how the Harrier or even a storm, can disapear from a pulsed doppler radar : "To understand this, consider a situation where the measurement causes the phase of the pulse to shift by 400 degrees. Mathematically, this is identical to a shift of 40 degrees, because it has gone through an entire cycle (a full 360 degrees). Speeds causing shifts such as this are called the "blind speed." It is a function of the pulse repetition frequency of the signal, so by altering this signal, meteorologists can prevent this to some degree. Edited by Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D." So your claim has been proven false by the science world!!!!! The edited bit...... You see there is also a problem with any form of doppler radar, it HAS to be optimised to see either staionary, or moving objects, it cannot do both at the same time. Thus as I said a Harrier, and the F35 will when stationary NOT be seen by a doppler radar optimised to movement. Thye can be switched to staionary objects, then they won.t see the rest of the western airforces that cannot stand still. Russia has this as a very real known problem, and thus far NONE of the Russian systems are known to attempt to solve this major Doppler radar problem. Jst like your country sherriff in the USA using doppler radar to spot speeding traffic, the radar will not "see" any staionary vehicles by the roadside ever.
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