Let's Explore The AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER Cruise Missile (2023) Which Was Produced By Boeing. The United States Navy And Air Force Primarily Deploy The AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response), A Long-range, All-weather Air-launched Cruise Missile. The Development Of This Cruise Missile Began In The Late 1980s Under McDonnell Douglas, Later Acquired By Boeing. The Missile's Fundamental Design, Derived From The Older Harpoon Anti-ship Missile, Was Specifically Tailored To Deliver An Enhanced Ground Strike Capability. On this website its said that the agm84H slam er is intergrated and can be launched by the f15E why isnt it in the dev server for the F15E?
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Here is the thread for discussing the dev server:
If you think something is wrong with a vehicle in the game then you can bug report it here (just search a bit first so that you don’t report something that is already reported and known about): (Gaijin.net // Issues)
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the second image is for the F-15EX tho, isnt it?
Image 1 cannot be used as source. The photo was taken during an aerodynamic test.
The flight captured F-15 aerodynamic performance information while carrying the SLAM-ER Missile and AWW-13K Data Link Pod and supported the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) F-15K program.
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Does mentions of the SLAM-ER in the 2013 edition of the Brochure not also support that it is possible?
or the Latter mention of the Harpoon, of which the SLAM is based on that there are at least provisions for it’s mounting inherent to the baseline Airframe.
the 3rd image says AGM-84, it is pretty old.
the more recent one just backs it up, since the advanced eagle weapons are the same ones F-15E’s can use in almost every case
The loadout image is for the Advanced F-15E, not the standard F-15E. The standard F-15E is not capable of using the SLAM-ER. All testing after the aerodynamic tests was completed using the F-15K.
The initial flight tests on the F-15E will be subsequently followed by SLAM-ER Avionic integration testing on F-15K – a fully instrumented F-15K – aircraft in 2005, and then by a live F-15K SLAM-ER missile launch against a ground target in early 2006.
Since Harpoon uses a completely different seeker, this cannot be considered evidence. Furthermore, since it is not mentioned in the manual at all, this merely suggests a future possibility and does not prove that it is immediately available for use.
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So then how is the KH-38MT justified using these same rules for being mounted on so many airframes? Considering No image of a non-mockup AUR, or seeker has ever surfaced.
It also puts the GPU-5/A in the same list.
Which as has been outlined many times, fits on MAU-12 bomb racks with no modification necessary for the F-15 airframe.
As I explained earlier, the photo of the F-15E with AGM-84H was taken during aerodynamic testing.
The flight captured F-15 aerodynamic performance information while carrying the SLAM-ER Missile and AWW-13K Data Link Pod and supported the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) F-15K program.
Although this is a completely different matter, the Kh-38 brochure states that it can be mounted on “all variants” of the Su-27/30. They have proven the technical compatibility. I will not comment further on Kh-38.
Simple gun pods and complex missiles are entirely different. In the case of gun pods, they can often be used simply by supplying power, so they have been easily installed and used on a temporary basis even in the field. Furthermore, the previous report failed to prove that the F-15E can use the GPU-5/A, and the same applies to this video. This video shows only a modified F-15B.
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If a brochure’s good enough for one, but not the other. And besides it’s not like the F-15E doesn’t have access to the AGM-65D which shares the AN/WGU-10/B IIR seeker with the baseline SLAM so it’s not as if actually needs any additional hardware to deal with EO / IIR seekers since everything need would already exist onboard to facilitate the capability.
And the Datalink if needed would be handled by GBU-15 / AGM-130 capable datalinks, since the SLAM & GBU-15 / AGM-130 just reuses the Walleye Datalink module. Everything else is the same as a regular Harpoon and so no different.
So then bug report mangers have screwed up previously and so should invert which of the two reports were passed. On that Basis that the F-15A is identical to the prototype TF-15A Strike Eagle airframe.
It’s really quite sad that it’s now that you got around to “fixing” things a year later.
In what significant ways does the F-15B Strike Eagle Prototype, differ from the F-15E?
The AGM-84 can be mounted on the F-15 according to Boeing. So why can’t the Eagle get it? That feels very double standard.
I think the equivalent would be if it’s stated to be compatible with all variants of F-15.