When you guys will understand the differences between → NEVER INSTALLED EVER // INSTALLED ON SOME VARIANT.
The ONLY USA aircraft that can Have HMD right now, through the form of VTAS would be F-14A → even then it is not possible as VTAS functionnalties requires a block of Hard/Software that were added for the only aircraft which make those trials, and is not available on the Serial F-14A/B or even D.
F-15A NEVER EVER got VTAS installed, as the trials made on USN F-14A were looked upon from USAF, and they decided that it was not worth to integrate it.
If you look, the VTAS only ever been proposed, and AIMVAL test-campaign make it possible to check feasibility, without making it in Hard.
→ F-15A is inelligible to VTAS as is F-14A since it is not equipped with the required Module for VTAS to work.
My argument is STILL the same since start:
Now if you want to be stupid go on,… i’m done explainning the same thing 3 times on to you and your desperate colleagues.
99% of US mains are complaining about the lack of HMD on the F15 and it being the primary reason for it being 12.3 and not 12.7. it should 100% be 12.7 though. 0 reason for it to be 12.3.
I mean, that could be applied to… every nation pretty much. The only ones I haven’t seen complain are Italians, who just… I assume accepted their fate when the F-104s came out.
It just so happens that Brits feel (quite reasonably) hard done by, having to choose between a Brick, an even shorter ranged Brick, and a Harrier until this patch.
On balance Morvran probably would. Then again so would every British, Italian and German Air main worth their salt. Because they just aren’t comparable. A quick glance over their basic characteristics would tell you that.
Then again, no doubt everyone would either be horrified or delighted at the idea of a missile with a NEZ of around 60 km. And ASRAAM having perhaps the longest range of Western IR missiles and being virtually unflarable.
Funny old thing, the Europeans can turn out a good aircraft when they bother their arses every now and then…