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Originally Posted by notorious
Performance isn’t usually published in m/s. It’s usually meters or feet per minute, hence my error.
A fun side fact. F-16s and SU-27s climb around 75,000 feet per minute. You won’t find an official number, though. Secrets and stuff.
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Yeah, anything with that kind of power to weight ratio is gonna go up almost as fast as it can go forward.
The F-16’s really is/was amazing. That kind of performance and agility at those price tags just doesn’t happen often. Really a remarkable service history for the ‘cheap’ option in our fleet. They set out to build a low-cost alternative to the F-15 and ended up with a damn workhorse. Remarkable work there.