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Originally Posted by Varyon
I sit corrected, then. GURPS stats for fighter jets are largely missing (apparently there are a few in a Pyramid issue I don't have), and given they usually rely on catapults to launch from aircraft carriers, I assumed they would have less than 1G thrust.
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An F-14 on take-off would have about 0.9G acceleration with full afterburners, which I don't think they generally did for a carrier launch, and without afterburners the thrust/weight ratio was more like 0.5. The F/A-18 is much the same.