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Originally Posted by ravenfish
Some fighters are capable of extended flight straight upwards, so logically these must have at least 1G of acceleration.
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Originally Posted by Phoenix_Dragon
Most modern fighters are right around 1.0 thrust-to-weight ratio, which would be 1G acceleration.
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Originally Posted by Rupert
An F-16 moderately loaded has about 1G of acceleration. So did/does the MiG-19, the world's first supersonic fighter to enter production.
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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.