You are out of your mind if you think that lol, the thrust difference is a massive deal, that’s literally why we’re all on here upset about it
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The difference is being able to outrun missiles with ease
Well, more likely ability to sustain normally with instructor
I shot an r77 at an F-15I from rear aspect 4km, he outran it
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Would be same for any F-15, but yeah, 229 does helps in that
that is absolutely not true lol
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Done the same in multiple instances, any other f15, or even any other plane for that matter, would have died. You’re not outrunning an r77 from 4km behind you
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this words may knows only the players who experienced how F-15I strong is
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I found some videos of the showing the how much F100-PW-229 power it is
we can discuss after watching how PW-229 works
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Yea totally wouldn’t make a big difference in ground!
Im almost done with the Israeli tech tree and if the F-15I goes live with the -229 engines and the US E doesnt, I can guarantee you that many players are gonna abuse the hell out of it. Also the fact that you can yeet 8 Aim-120s at mach 2 is absolutely ridiculous. The US F-15E should get the -229 engines or they should be removed from the F-15I.
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We don’t want them removed from the F-15I because that just wouldn’t be accurate historically, we just want the planes to be equal in terms of engine power at the least. Very unfortunate that gaijin is constantly doing stuff like this. Such an easy fix too
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Yeah i mean it would be different if the US F-15E was actually incompatible with the -229 engine. But its not. The -200 and -229 are essentially the same basic engine design, one just jas more thrust than the other.
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Nothing in this entire situation has made any sense, from the very start during the dev stream, this is the most meaningless bias/nerf I’ve ever witnessed in my time playing this game
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Were the F-15Cs upgraded with -229 engines at some point?
I was asking the same question before, but no I don’t think they were. Could be wrong ofc
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Not sure how reliable this is but it seems the F-15C may have also gotten the 229 at some point
F-15 Eagle Archives | Air & Space Forces Magazine).
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an F-15C with 229s would be basically an SR-71 lol
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So i see a replay displaying the capabilities of the F-15E before they added the drag aswell as how effective the AIM-120s are… cool.