you would never really want to bring the full loadout because it would be very draggy and make your turning radius much larger, but would still be a fun gimmick
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It’s more to have a more A2A options when carrying mixed ground loads.
Being able to carry 12 x AIM-9/AIM-120 and a metric load of GBU-53s is going to be very appealing. And frankly it’s just meeting what the Su-30SM can already do.
fine enough
They just have to make 6x GBU-53 launchers and clear stations 1 and 9 for heavier a2g loads and EX is perfect multirole
Not sure that’d be possible though
Putting that much load on outer pylons would require some really strong wing structure
I mean, 1 wing is all an F-15 needs to fly so I don’t think it’s out of the question especially on new build F-15’s
All i want is the 1 and 9 pylons to be able to take SiAW (in the future)
It must take SiAW, cuz it already can take AARGM and maybe -ER
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These are unrelated, the fact that an F-15 can fly without one wing doesn’t mean a wing can carry infinite weight
There’s a reason heavy duty pylons are usually the inner ones
Maybe a2a+a2g is a stretch.
But the one wing thing does mean the F-15 is able to deal with much greater wing loading and only on one side too, combined with better construction on new build F-15EX I think the outer pylons can handle greater loads than what we’ve seen so far, but maybe not as much as inner wing or fuselage
And F-15EX also goes from 23,000lb max payload on the F-15E (some sources say 24,500lb max) to crazy 29,500lb max payload. I don’t think it’s out of the question that a good chunk of the extra 6,500 or 5,000 lb is for the outer wing stations
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I don’t know, I mean two additional harms or two additional dual missile racks is already a significant weight so
But maybe not as much as I think, maybe we’ll see heavier armament cleared for the outer pylons at some point
Funny how the F-15 is becoming more and more of a weapon bus and everytime we think it can’t go further it does
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It’s approaching F-111 levels of payload
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Yeah but the U.S always took the cheaper alternative
I mean they really only have to do it once
So the F-15EX is as maneuverable as the C. Combined with the thrust of the, 12 missiles and a excellent radar, very good plen
he said he like how easy it was to go high and fast. that means EX could be much lighter than previously thought to give that much of a difference for an F-15C pilot to mention it as a standout feature
It could just be the better engines it has. Similar to the one on the E. Maybe it’s lighter than the E too
It in fact is lighter than the strike eagle, they changed the airframe mostly for that reason
Combined with the more powerful engines it’s really a powerhouse
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