completely different is quite a stretch lol
EX is a better version of the 2 with better avionics mostly and im gonna assume a better airframe as i doubt the standard F15E can handle speeds of up to mach 2.9 probably has titanium and compisties does anyone have a photo of a unpainted F15E ?
this is a photo of it on a test flight with no paint the F15EX
all i can say is that its becoming a brick just like its counterparts
This is incorrect. There is no limiter in the flight controls. They are direct mechanical connections.
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there is no hard limit but pilots are still limited in how much they can pull due to not being able to compensate for aerodynamic instability
Data is in. F-18E performs about as well as an Su-30 in acceleration. Bit better in subsonic, a bit worse in supersonic.
F-18C performs better overall.
did i call it ?
am i snail favorite ?
unless they pull payloads/avionics completely out of their behind this thing is 12.0-13.0 fodder, not 14.3+
we cant have jokes no more ? people will love, cant be DOA
yeah DOA has such a vague true meaning so technically it wont be DOA, I for sure will grind it if squadron or techtrees(doubt), if its a premium then sadly I would rather just pretend it doesn’t exist.
What’s the problem with it being at a lower BR? It would avoid the awful top tier “”“gameplay”“”.
nothing at all
just considering the thread title
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Can’t wait to come back to this thread when the su57 outperforms the f22 and the american mains are stuck with another DoA plane. Especially with all the typhoons raining meteors down too.
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Oh, oh! Of course — because at that time we had three new aircraft, and it was the worst of the three, ranking behind the Su-27 and the Gripen in actual effectiveness in ARB matches. We could call it ‘one of the best aircraft at the time.’
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Su-27 was slow, fat, and of course retained flaws it still has.
F-15A was the fastest and generally strongest aircraft so long as you chose not to entertain turn fights with Gripens.
Even after the FM fixes, the F-15A still performed better than the Su-27.
Well…at least not in a 16 vs 16 ARB match.
You mean the best place for it…
The more players, the less flight model differences matter.
They still matter a bit, but no where nearly as much as with smaller matches.
“I never said the F-15A is a bad aircraft — it’s just that its kit wasn’t good enough to make a big impact in the opening phase (where the match is mostly decided early on). It was also the only one without TWS and HMD at that time. I’ve played the F-15A more than anything else in War Thunder. It flies extremely well… right up until the moment you decide to fire a missile at the enemy.
After that, I spent 400k RP to get an F-15 that’s heavier, slower, and whose missiles still aren’t superior to its opponents’.
Yes. However, US mains will still claim they all suck.
Im fully expecting a “F22 is DOA” cope post flood this year
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Very likely, but after what happened with the F-18E, even USA mains like me are getting less and less persistent with all the yapping. The US tech tree is getting fewer players, and the few who remain don’t want to keep yapping like I do anymore. You’ll have peace soon enough.