The indication that a weapons delivery manual(81’ and aswell 89’) state that the half power beamwidth is 2.5° and not 3° like it is incorrectly stated in that canadian document gives a clue the document is wrong aswell https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/vNe2slf263FF
2.5° is aswell supported by F14s antenna which is similar, 42 slots and diameter, and mathematically through optical wave theory. With a loss in directivity using amplitude tapering for sidelobes control and/or antenna efficiency parameters
From my understanding FM-wise, it’d be inferior to the F-15A we currently have. Could have the same weapons (but a much better radar) and would have much more ground attack ordinance. So performance-wise, it should be possible to be added to the game now/in the near future tbh.
Yours is by Jack Abercrombie, aerodynamicist for McAir’s FX program, but it’s not real. It’s a graph from the late 1970s, from a report to AGARD which was not showing the truth on purpose because it was the Cold War.
It depends on how they model it. If they make it realistic, and allow the CFTs to be removed it would be as good if not better than the F-15A/C when equipped with the -229 engines.
