which alt and speed?
505kph for F-15I.
F-15A rates faster at a lower speed.
If it was closer, or higher in F-15I’s favor I would’ve cracked out the HOTAS and rated at 550kph for each, but it’s obvious F-15A would only pull further ahead.
the ability of the f15i to reach 890knots at sea evel with full external tanks and ctf is nonsense. something needs to be done about it
Prove that it’s nonsense.
Drag? It’s going to be identical to F-15C/E.
Weight? Similar to E at the least.
Engine performance? Worse than F-16 at subsonic speeds due to more channel loss at subsonic speeds.
Would you look at that, more channel loss at subsonic speed.
It’s easy to prove.
Our completely empty and slick F-15С (12 minutes of fuel), without CTF, without tanks, without air-to-air missiles, reaches maximum 807 knots at sea level.
And the F-15i, which has slightly more powerful engines, but which has 3 tanks + CTF + 4 air-to-air missiles + full internal fuel load, produces 890 knots.
Any more questions?
The 229 is a significantly more powerful engine, not “slightly”.
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“slightly” tell us you’ve never used or seen the plane being used without telling us
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Just see F-15E Flight Manual (April 1993)
Page B9-37.
Max speed of 229 F-15E with CFT on 10.000 alt is 1.25mach
Then open page B9-10 and wee see 1.1 mach is CFT Design Limit at sea level.
Sometimes it’s better to keep quiet, you’ll be considered smart.
does gaijin implement flight manual limitations? It isnt.
Limitations set on pilots for maintenance reasons =/= limitations of the airframe.
This is a reminder that F-100 was on AB for over 17 minutes, and the cowling burned, but the aircraft was overall fine.
Do yall know if the Strike Eagle could carry the wing rail bol pods like the Charlie variant?
There is zero reason why it shouldnt be able to carry.
Even F-16’s can carry BOL pods.
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Pretty sure it can, but they didn’t even give them to the C so I doubt the E is getting them
If you think they base everything in this game off flight manuals then you need to wake up, there’s been 4 or 5 dev updates since release and the only thing they’ve changed is the drag for the F-15E and I, clearly it’s performing as they intended if there hasn’t been another change
The e is being put at the end of the bomber line tho right? So why wouldn’t it.
Lol you tell me
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well, 15E will be just bad if will equip TGP, because of 120CMs(Untill they will implement one of bug reports - 120CMs and 120 only chaffs)
with BOL it will be able to take additional 480(more likely 240, cus you pretty sure need an AMRAAMs(only if F-15E rails are uncapable of taking BOLs and AMRAAM at same time)
120 isn’t bad but it is pretty low for it being a 13.7, but yea they need to implement the 120 chaff on the tgp side, hopefully next dev server
well, actually one of the worsest, theyre not large caliber btw. especially with F-15 heat signature.
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That’s a good point, I personally haven’t had much trouble with only 120cm, but then again, there’s way less players on the dev so this would probably be a much bigger issue trying to do ground attack with the E on the live server