I was running a scenario with F-35C and after launching AAMRAMs at a pair of Typhoons I had them reverse course and hit burner  to try and get away from the missiles launched at my aircraft. Imagine my horror when they were only doing about 870 knots. I just read the C model can do 1200 knots. Wiki has it at Mach 1.6. Is there something I’m missing here? And I’m using the stock Db

 

Byron

There's some interesting reading on the internet if you start searching this

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/12/supersonic-speeds-could-cause-big-problems-for-the-f-35s-stealth-coating/

 

Well, since the reason I’m in burner is because I have a missile that I’m trying to outrun stealth isn’t an issue 

F-35 are slower than usual fighters CLEAN, but probably not when as usual a conventional fighter is not clean.

 

On 12/17/2021 at 9:32 PM, Byron said:

I was running a scenario with F-35C and after launching AAMRAMs at a pair of Typhoons I had them reverse course and hit burner  to try and get away from the missiles launched at my aircraft. Imagine my horror when they were only doing about 870 knots. I just read the C model can do 1200 knots. Wiki has it at Mach 1.6. Is there something I’m missing here? And I’m using the stock Db

Byron

The database uses the H4 data (where available) that was available at the time.