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Close to 1:1 T/W ratio definitely helps yet mandatory (but no A-5s nonsense). 7.5Gs is enough or I'd say optimum, no 9Gs is not for airshows only as evidenced by a PAF Viper pilot that got 2 kills in the mid 80s. 25% would definitely be a great advantage particularly for the wing area. Intakes could definitely use a big changeHi,
You maybe not familiar as to what I have written on this forum for over a decade and a half about this aircraft and what my reasons were---.
From day one I was the proponent of a 25% larger JF17 and from day 1---I cared less if the engine was NOT powerful enough---because I knew that the coming war depended on the BVR platform and the EW package that the aircraft carried---.
9 and 10 g's performance was just for the air shows and the thrust ratio more than 1:1 was just to satisfy the ego---.
One of the greatest fighter aircraft the F14 had a lower thrust ratio to weight percentage but it was a monster when it came to air combat---.
The art of air combat is to fight the enemy from your position of strength---and that is where the Paf excelled in with the F86 Sabre and it was successful more time against the Gnat.
I think the F-14A had a lot of issues that led to newer versions being developed for the Tomcat to improve the T/W ratio. The A version had engine stalls happen occasionally.