Your argument is not supported by what is open source knowledge
Hi
@araz
"Open source" knowledge such as Wikipedia? I'm afraid my dear that's not correct.No reliable and credible source has indicated that JF17 has superior loitering time than the LCA. As I mentioned before loitering time is a function of both drag and the SFC(specific fuel consumption) of the engine.So,unless JF17 somehow manages to have appreciably lesser drag and higher SFC,i cant understand as to how it will have longer loitering time--especially when LCA has larger internal fuel volume!
As to JFT what the pilots say is that it bleeds less energy when in sustained turn rate as compared to F16s.
My dear, aircraft doesn't bleed any energy in sustained turn.the word "sustained" itself mean that the turning is "sustained". Which implies that the drag encountered during turning is equal to max thrust available to the plane. However any other turn that is not sustained will loose energy and hence height!
I also wanted to point out that if you're below the STR line on an EM graph, you'd actually "gain" altitude! So gaining and losing altitude is relative in the sense where you are relative to STR line.now what I mean by,"where you are" refers to the speed and "g" at which you pull off your turning maneuver.speed is the enemy of pilot in turning whereas "g" is the friend! So for sustained turn, you should have
1)D=T
2)CL should me max
Or in other words you maximize turning rate equation with constraint #1 and #2.as you can see the constraint #1 relates to drag, and to calculate drag we must know something called "drag polar" and that is not reliably known as it is key in identifying a lot of aircraft performance parameters! Countries normally don't reveal this figure.
Kindly refer to my posts on EM diagrams, you'd understand my point.
As for jf17 not bleeding any energy vis a vis f16, it all depends on where we are when we initiate our turning maneuver! So to reliably comment on this aspect we'd need EM graph of both the planes!
