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