Jet fighter top speed at military power
I am wonderning what the top speed (in mph) a clean F-15C, Mirage
2000, F-16C, and MiG-29 could accelerate to in level flight at optimum
altitude (not just sea level) without afterburner. I usually see the
top clean speed and the top sea level speed (with afternburner?)
quoted, but rarely the top military power speed.
If there are any online references for non-afterburner speeds of other
supersonic jets, I'd be interested to know where to find them!
Secondary question: did the F-15 get faster recently? Reference books
of a decade or so ago tended to quote 1650 mph as top speed in clean
configuration ion a good day (etc.) but now I see figures of 1875 mph
on USAF web sites.
Any help would be appreciated.
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