Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Why are Modern Fighter Jets Slower than 1960s?" video.

@hotstepper887 Bunch of cope and propaganda. The Harrier was not meant for VTOL operation either, as the max takeoff weight for vertical takeoff doesn't let you carry enough fuel and weapons.
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@saxreaper Not really. Most aircraft take a beating from high G loading when carrying significant payload. High Gs strain the human in the cockpit, but a 2000lb bomb mounted to a wing at 9G... that's an insane bending moment on the wing. Replacing the pilot so you can do 12G will just cut the usable hours on that airframe, if not lead to outright crack formation.
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@3d1e00 The F-35A doesn't have that issue, it happened three times in total and they couldn't replicate it reliably in testing. The limit on speed in Bs and Cs is just a precaution for peacetime.
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@3d1e00 Sure. IRST doesn't have to be used in isolation because weapons and aircraft have their own sensors. This can mean firing a weapon with a rough intercept course to then turn its own radar own to obtain the tracking solution. BVR, if we're talking about human visual range, still includes optical means. The DAS/EOTS on the F-35 is an example of how an infrared search and track system can detect a contact, cue an electro-optical system to get visual on the target, cue a weapon so that it ends up close to the target sighted and then let it handle the terminal phase. If you have multiple F-35s in the air, as one should, sensor fusion should allow these systems to triangulate the position and get a passable track.
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@wave1016 The purpose of the EX is keeping the Boeing St. Louis plant open. Without orders, the US loses a fighter manufacturing plant. So they created orders to avoid that. Simple as.
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@casematecardinal That's riddiculous. Aircraft are not sent to 1v1 fights, chasing down a F-35 without AMRAAMs still means a few F-35s with a couple of them left are close by.
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Cope. "Ancient" radar systems are meant for early warning detection and not weapons grade tracking, and thus use bands that are less affected by stealth but do nothing to help you shoot them down. If Syrian defenses are locking Israeli F-35s how come none has been brought down?
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That's not true at all. Most rocket motors in air to air missiles only have a few seconds of burn time. After they burn out, the missile can't gain any more energy. This means that if you turn, the missile will have to steer towards a new predictive impact point. This wastes energy. If you turn again, now the missile has been going in the wrong direction all along! It must steer towards a newer predictive impact point. Energy defeat of a missile is much simpler than maneuvering.
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@taraswertelecki3786 "Many"? There's the Meteor, and there could be a couple more but I don't remember. The Phoenix was designed to take out slow bombers flying in a straight line. Now you're correctly using the no escape zone. The issue is, in air combat you fire before the no escape zone because you want to force a defensive posture with a reasonably high Pk shot. Waiting to reach no escape zone means flying straight into a high Pk missile.
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@3d1e00 The faster you go, the greater your IR emissions. IR comes into play because IR Search & Track is a thing. There's also the fuel. Stealth aircraft want to keep the fuel internal and not have to carry external bags. The faster you go the more fuel is wasted, and thus your range is reduced.
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This is insanity. No fighter in those conditions could "bug out". A multirole fighter coming in support of troops will be carrying fuel and bombs, which reduce performance anyway.
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Carrying modern weapons means a radar, and back then aircraft only had a small ranging radar in a bump in the nose above the intake for the gun sight lead compensation. Modern missiles are also a little big heavy. So you need a stronger engine and bigger wings for the extra weight. But that also means you need more fuel. Which is extra weight. Now you need to make the structure stronger. When you're done updating the F-86 to modern combat, you have a totally different aircraft that's expensive. Also, training pilots is difficult. If you're building cheap aircraft to have a larger force, that means inherently having to accept more pilot candidates. That's great for those who have dreams of flying, but it means lower quality pilots.
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The Mirage III and Daggers were not flying supersonic because the Falklands were far away enough that using the afterburner would mean not enough fuel to come back. Their average time on target was just a few minutes before they had to turn back. Also, Exocets were carried by the Super Etendard.
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