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My point is that there are too many factors for us to consider with our present limitations in order to determine an accurate fighter flight model for the typical one which has seen some battle, wear, and damage with repairs. Therefore comparing battle experienced fighter planes with factory and/or test pilot specifications is not reasonable.

Agreed 100%

The tech does exist today but it does not run in real time

That is to say a computer could calculate the affect on the drag due to a bullet hole in the wing

But it would probally take the computer 5 min to calculate 1 sec worth of fligh time

So someday when computers are fast enough to do that in real time we will have better damage modling affects on the flight model

And maybe someday they will be able to do the same with motor damage and the rest

It all takes time and money

But someday it will happen

But until that we will just have to do with flying factory fressh planes