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Originally Posted by GGTharos
You can basically forget about SAMs targetting F-22's at any 'long' distance, barring a SAM armed with a nuclear warhead.
As for thrust to weight? The F-15C can have 1.4 or so when it's fairly low on fuel ... the Streak had 1.6. The Strike already beats the C and matches the Streak's performance figures closely enough, IIRC.
The F-22 takes it all away again ... in other words ... you mis-calculated  |
No kidding. IIRC, the Raptor's engines have nearly 40,000 lbs of thrust on burner.
Each. And it weighs, what, 55 or 60 thousand lbs with a combat load? Compared to an an Eagle, with around 25,000 lbs per engine, and about 50,000 lbs combat load, or about 30,000 lbs/engine and I think something like 60,000 lbs combat load.
I don't know of a fighter that can match the Raptor for sheer brute power.