Which Is The Fastest Interceptor Aircraft OF ALL TIME? | DCS 

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It's just too dam pretty...

in February 1949, at White Sands, the X-15 reached a speed of 8,290 km/h (5,150 mph), or about Mach 6.7.

@@zsavage1820 The X-15 was powered by a rocket vs. a jet engine.

@@flashgordon6670 Saunders-Roe SR.53 ===> this is why they dont power interceptors with rocket motors. there's some good docs on that airframe on YT!

And the F-106 is still one of the best looking, IMO

a modified f16 in a nosedive might reach that speed

Big emphasis in European fighter design to be able to operate from rough or auxiliary runways like Motorways. If the fighters too large it cant use the roads.

Mig 31 built like a speed boat.

You have just explained the issue with the EEL during the video Cap 🙄 Maybe one day there will be a mod of the Jet in game

fuel would be the killer for that thing

@@Scoobydcs it’s actually surprisingly fuel efficient especially with the F.7 with external tanks

@@errorbyte7657 you mean the f6? iirc they were ferry tanks with pretty serious performance limitations with them fitted

@@flashgordon6670 that wasn't even armed lol

Time to climb was made by a modified F-15 called the Streak Eagle so pretty unfair to compare to to F-15 in game. Pretty sure GR did some videos on it.

@BearCat Racing That's true, and the one that shot down a satellite was also a modified version. However, I think both examples speak to the power of the aircraft. I don't buy that the Eurofighter would beat it. I think maybe he waited too long to lose the drop tanks, messed up the climb, or maybe the in-game model is inaccurate. I could be totally wrong, too

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Likely managing fuel

The FC3 F-15 will only ever max output at 96%. It doesn't show rpm differences when in afterburner.

I wonder if it can not make full RPM at altitude? (guess)

A few do, like the .204 Ruger, 22-250 or 220 Swift.

Thrust yes - but he engines aren't particularly efficient down there and the F-22 is heavy. Eurofighter (in clean trim) should beat it handsomely until the F-22 gets to altitude.

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More like 58 years!

But it never was a interceptor. If the blackbird was actually made to carry missiles and a radar it wouldn't fly as fast nor would it be the same size.

@@antoniohagopian213 The SR-71 grew out of the YF-12 which was an interceptor.

It's what you get in exchange for the maneuverability of a slightly sharpened brick.

@@egberthigglewonk4520 crazy how the 2000's was more than 20 years ago

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Yeah, but if Hector had put his T66 turbos(with NOS)on the MIG I think it would have taken it. 😂

Haha, had one

Good to see there are a few people that like the -106.

They should have had the F 106 not the F 105. The F 106 was much faster up high than the 105; (though the 105 was faster at sea level). The 106 was mach 2.3 - 2.4 up high. The F 15C with 229 engines would have actually done better than the SU 35 in this scenario, and would have been ahead of the MIG 31 until near the end, and even then, only at the very high end would the MIG 31 barely pass the F 15. The Raptor is 2.48 mach, not 2.2. soft limited by its stealth coating, hard limited somewhere not far past 2.5 by its non variable intake geometry; like the F 16 is limited to 2.03 mach for its fixed intake. Although the Rsptors intake is deeper, so its not as limited by the shockwave as the F 16 is. The SR 71 was modeled "pretty close", for just using its turbojet and afterburners. It's actually faster than depicted here, but actually could NOT do this intercept as shown. It could NOT take off with the fuel load to perform this intercept. It would have to meet a KC 135 (with the older turbojet engines, not the more modern CF56 engines) to take on its special jp 7 fuel. Thats why tge YF 12 never made it as an interceptor. The KC 135 would have to scramble first. SR 71s did not accekerate that fast until past mach 1.6. An F 4 Phantom was quicker from subsonic speeds to mach 1.6 than the SR 71. The SR 71 was not that quick when subsonic compared to most other jet fighters. Although in reality, the SR 71 acceleration was greater going through mach 3.2 and above than it was going through mach 1, or even mach 2 if it used its ramjet bypass. hmmm...interesting huh....

Yup, I used to fly those. Had one up to 2.25M on a test flight once, it still had more to go.

Oh, that would be a sweet video series. Fastest bombers of each generation.

Just like the F-14A it wouldn’t accelerate fast enough to make the top 5

@@flashgordon6670 Typical pilot response lol

Why was a bomber designated as a fighter then?

You are right. SR-71 is not an interceptor. There was some testing using missile carry but the idea was scraped. After taking of SR-71 has to be refueled in the air and that would delay too much any hypothetical intercept mission.

The mod is actually called the YF-12, which was the interceptor design before it was scrapped and made the SR-71 instead.

@@flashgordon6670 The RAF intercepts Russian planes all the time they don't all fall out the sky through lack of fuel though you'd be out of planes in no time. They don't have to shoot at them normally just incepting them is enough but bringing your £100M bird home each time is pretty much expected. It also would be just as fun guessing how much fuel to take to intercept and get back and what Stores to take if you needed it.

@@flashgordon6670 Probably because your wrong there may be situations were accidents happen or escorts take the interceptor out but no air force it going to intercept then eject it would be a pretty short war if that happened.

Absoloutely !!

100% agree! The first aircraft in service anywhere with a T/W ratio of 1:1 as well (F.3 in ‘62, F-104 followed with upgraded engines in ‘67).

Stealth Squadron's and Futuristic Planes VS Star Destroyer Fleet!👍👍 Stealth Squadron's Center Front Formation-- Flying in Two Formations of Five-- Ten F-22 Raptors! Few miles behind-- Five F-117's! Flying a few miles behind-- Four B-2 Spirits in formations of Two! Right Flank-- Fifteen ST-21's! Few miles behind-- Five F-16V Block 72's With Optical Camouflage and Ten F-15STOL/MTD's! At a higher altitude few miles behind-- Four YF-12A's! Flying underneath-- Two B-1R's and Five F-15EX's with AIM-260's! Few miles behind-- Two New Hypersonic "UFO's"! Plus The Millennium Falcon with Four X-Wing's and Two Y-Wing's! Left Flank-- Fifteen F-35's Seven with LRASM* in Three formations of Five! Few miles behind-- Five F-117's! In the back-- Four B-2 Spirits in formations of Two! Please obviously include a few AWACS Please have a Stealth way in back with a Nuke if all else fails! ;) Star Destroyer Fleet-- LOTS of Tie-Fighters, Good amount of Tie-Interceptors, Eight Tie-Hunters, and Four Corvette Raiders!! Corvettes start airborne!!🙏

For stealth reasons the F-22 has fixed inlet ducting and that's what's limiting the top speed rather than engine thrust which it has plenty of to go faster if the intake air could be diffused down enough to feed them. Much beyond M2 you need a variable intake duct so that's one of the compromises made to keep it stealthy...as well as the skin coatings don't like such high speeds either so that also helped with the decisions on how fast they could/should go.

@@flashgordon6670 Burning fuel makes heat, but it's the expansion of the rest of the air (78% nitrogen) that expands from that heat and makes the majority of the mass being ejected as thrust. Adding pure oxygen will make a LOT of heat and just melt the crap out of things where combating the heat already being generated is THE limiting factor as to how hard you can push the engines. Adding both hydrogen and oxygen means you need to make a rocket rather than a turbine engine and it's going to be impossible to carry enough fuel to get the endurance you need to make an aircraft a viable machine. There have been rocket planes...but they go very fast for a very brief period of time and beyond something like the Germans did trying to make an interceptor to get up to the bomber formations they're not going to be of much use.

@@flashgordon6670 Well....land speed record cars....jets and rocket types have 'just' been able to hit Mach 1 after several miles of acceleration. It wouldn't be much of a race with any modern military jet, though the Blue Bird's were run back in the mid 1930's where 300 mph was something special and probably could hold their own against any aircraft of the time. Especially down at ground level where the aircraft aren't optimized to fly it would likely be a good race! I don't know how someone would model such a race...but if it were done I'd for sure give it a watch as I really do like the old Malcolm Campbell vehicles.

It is well known that the Mig 25 can do mach 3 but it will tear the engines apart in just a matter of minutes. It was heavy and sucked down fuel with those humongous engines. So they opted to keep it below 2.8 and preferably 2.5. The foxbat is what you can do with raw power for a couple minutes... The SR family is what you can do with brains mixed with raw power all day. So the SR will still win this race hands down. Every time.

@@heathb4319 Bear in mind MiG-25 and MiG-31 are interceptors, they carry AAM and have decent rate of climb and can maneuver better than the Blackbird which is strictly reconnaissance airplane built for speed and long range.

The Valkyrie would be interesting to see in here, it weighed about 3.5 times more than the blackbird but it also had about that much more thrust as well.

@@flashgordon6670 that's the thing, the thrust to weight ratio of both is about the same.

Why use a Mig-19 instead of a Mig-21?

Oh I've got something even better planned for Tu-160

Mig-19 won it's heat. Mig-21 did not.

Yeah, it's "official" top speed was Mach 3.3 but I've heard Pilots say they could "push the throttle" and get it to carzy numbers. They said it flew best at higher the Mach numbers.

@@dextermorgan1 Yeah a defending SR71 would just, .... throttle up and climb

yes mach 3.68 was no problem

Stealth Squadron's and Futuristic Planes VS Star Destroyer Fleet!👍👍 Stealth Squadron's Center Front Formation-- Flying in Two Formations of Five-- Ten F-22 Raptors! Few miles behind-- Five F-117's! Flying a few miles behind-- Four B-2 Spirits in formations of Two! Right Flank-- Fifteen ST-21's! Few miles behind-- Five F-16V Block 72's With Optical Camouflage and Ten F-15STOL/MTD's! At a higher altitude few miles behind-- Four YF-12A's! Flying underneath-- Two B-1R's and Five F-15EX's with AIM-260's! Few miles behind-- Two New Hypersonic "UFO's"! Plus The Millennium Falcon with Four X-Wing's and Two Y-Wing's! Left Flank-- Fifteen F-35's Seven with LRASM* in Three formations of Five! Few miles behind-- Five F-117's! In the back-- Four B-2 Spirits in formations of Two! Please obviously include a few AWACS Please have a Stealth way in back with a Nuke if all else fails! ;) Star Destroyer Fleet-- LOTS of Tie-Fighters, Good amount of Tie-Interceptors, Eight Tie-Hunters, and Four Corvette Raiders!! Corvettes start airborne!!🙏

Why didn;t you include the EE Lightning?!??!?!! GR sux

@@flashgordon6670 I'll give you that although then it becomes even less of a test of the plane and more about the crew.

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The real-life record to reach 70,000 at Mach 3 was approximately 13 minutes.

4 planes? What happened to the crews?

The mod is actually called the YF-12. They just made it look like the SR-71 version.

The plane we use is actually a SR-71/YF-12A hybrid plane. Hence why we use it for combat.

Ok but are they all in game?

TSR-2!

Yes they do. I'm fully convinced the SR 72 has probably been flying for years now.

Not without a bit of assistance, think Ukraine.

I’m too poor but it looks so cool

@@logayn671 it is, I highly recommend it!

And the narrow waist of the fuselage unglues itself from excessive heat. But then the SU and MiG engines would have blown to pieces on sustained reheat as well!

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The SR-71 wasn't an interceptor, but the largely identical YF-12 was. I think in the original video with the "YF-12" they explained that they were just using the Blackbird as a facsimile since the YF-12 isn't in the game. The MiG-31 is still ridiculously fast though, and it was the fastest of the production interceptors seen here.

The mod is actually called the YF-12, which was the interceptor design before it was scrapped and made the SR-71 instead.

@ralphmiller8871 1 second ago the blackbird would have won if you had allowed it to take off sooner

@@flashgordon6670 friction... Air resistance at Mach 2 or Mach 4 must be veeery different With that said - the missile can also make up for a just slightly top speed advantage over the plane, provided that it can fly for long enough

We tried with the Su-57 BUT currently the version in DCS can go over mach 3 which is just stupid. Eventually we'll make our own flight model for it to match public data.

And add to that munitions to actually make the intercept and things get interesting!

The mod is actually the YF-12. The YF-12 was the interceptor concept before it was scrapped and the airframe was converted to SR-71.

human flyable Mig-25 is bugged, not working.

These are just arbitary values by modders. There is no accurate realism.

@@Crunch104 whatever. Entertaining wise is awesome! That's why we are here.

@@Michael_Michaels To each their own I suppose. Enterainment is fine. I was just pointing out that testing is a little pointless with something that is not realistic. Sorry, I don't mean to be negative. Enjoy!

In game they are the same plane. The blackbird we use us a SR-71/YF-12 hybrid. Fastest we got is M3.4

@@grimreapers at which altitude?