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Posted: Aug 23, 2006 - 03:00 PM
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| How soon do you think we will see more powerful and/or fuel efficient variants of the F-119 engine? Imagine a motor sufficiently powerful to push the Raptor to Mach 2 with military thrust - we would then have another Concorde! |
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shocktroop
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Posted: Aug 23, 2006 - 03:07 PM
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Imagine a motor sufficiently powerful to push the Raptor to Mach 2 with military thrust
Who said the Raptor can't go above Mach 2 with its current engines?
Public sources claim that the Raptor's top speed is about Mach 1.8, but if the Raptor can easily pass Mach 1 without using afterburner- makes you wonder what its real speed really is.
I posted a thread about the F-22s top speed a while ago, you might find some of the answers to your questions there:
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-3116.html |
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Posted: Aug 23, 2006 - 07:02 PM
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shocktroop wrote:
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Imagine a motor sufficiently powerful to push the Raptor to Mach 2 with military thrust
Who said the Raptor can't go above Mach 2 with its current engines?
Military power is 100%. The Raptor will probably hit around Mach 1.7 in that power range at the current moment. |
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Posted: Aug 24, 2006 - 03:33 AM
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mil_hobbyist wrote:
How soon do you think we will see more powerful and/or fuel efficient variants of the F-119 engine? Imagine a motor sufficiently powerful to push the Raptor to Mach 2 with military thrust - we would then have another Concorde!
The VAATE program is projecting a 10% increase in Raptor engine thrust by 2010 if I recall right. |
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Posted: Aug 24, 2006 - 04:45 AM
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JCSVT wrote:
shocktroop wrote:
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Imagine a motor sufficiently powerful to push the Raptor to Mach 2 with military thrust
Who said the Raptor can't go above Mach 2 with its current engines?
Military power is 100%. The Raptor will probably hit around Mach 1.7 in that power range at the current moment.
I think what is getting at is the Raptor has quite a bit more power DRY than either the Eagle or Tomcat had in full afterburner and they hit Mach 2+ (Obviously I'm not referring to F110 Tomcats or -229 Eagles) |
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Posted: Aug 24, 2006 - 06:03 AM
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| The F-22 might produce more MIL power than the F-15C or F-14A produce in AB at low subsonic speeds, but I doubt this is the case for the transonic regime and it certainly isn't the case for the supersonic regime. Both F-15C and F-14A can easily go past Mach 2 in AB as you stated. I haven't heard anything about the F-22 breaking Mach 2 in MIL. This will be a difficult proposition because of the physical size of the F119. The exit velocity obviously isn't enough in MIL to get the F-22 past Mach 2, so you either need a significant leap in engine technology past that of the F119 or... a physically bigger engine/airframe. Given the numerous design trade-offs that have to be made for a true "stealth fighter", the F-22's performance in MIL power is very impressive. If stealth and low speed maneuverability weren't high priorities, you could build a seriously fast interceptor based around the F119 engine. Mach 2 performance wouldn't be a problem with optimized supersonic aerodynamics and variable geometry intakes. |
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sferrin
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Posted: Aug 24, 2006 - 07:15 PM
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Raptor_One wrote:
The F-22 might produce more MIL power than the F-15C or F-14A produce in AB at low subsonic speeds, but I doubt this is the case for the transonic regime and it certainly isn't the case for the supersonic regime. Both F-15C and F-14A can easily go past Mach 2 in AB as you stated. I haven't heard anything about the F-22 breaking Mach 2 in MIL. This will be a difficult proposition because of the physical size of the F119. The exit velocity obviously isn't enough in MIL to get the F-22 past Mach 2, so you either need a significant leap in engine technology past that of the F119 or... a physically bigger engine/airframe. Given the numerous design trade-offs that have to be made for a true "stealth fighter", the F-22's performance in MIL power is very impressive. If stealth and low speed maneuverability weren't high priorities, you could build a seriously fast interceptor based around the F119 engine. Mach 2 performance wouldn't be a problem with optimized supersonic aerodynamics and variable geometry intakes.
I sometimes wonder if the next generation fighter will have something like a scaled up RATTLRS with an afterburner. It's suppose to be good for Mach 3 to 4 DRY but then it only has to last fifteen to twenty minutes so it's probably (most likely) being run right to the ragged edge of flying to pieces so to speak. |
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