Helmet, does it has it?
Can it have it? Yes.
Will gaijin give it? Maybe? I don’t see why they wouldn’t. But they didn’t give it to the F-15A when I’ve seen heeps of evidence for it to have one as well
Yes, I found eight bars.
I think you wrote that the Flood mode of the radar can be used to stealth-guide the AIM-7 ? I found that it served as a backup in case of radar failure.
In the WT, the F-15A is pre-1984 and is supposed to fight against the Su-27 from around 1990, hmmm.
Better in raw power, slightly weaker in manoeuvrability to increase weight.
Should also have a far higher climb rate clean as it’s got F100-PW-229s and not 220s.
Additional 6000 ish pounds of thrust.
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With more powerful engines, it would probably smash Su 27 records into the ground.
If F-15C Air-to-Air armament early 2000’s. not equipped Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) until 2010 retrofitting the AN/APG-63(V)3 AESA radar with AIM-9X sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM (AIM-120C-7) and Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220E engine
But F-15 variants with PW-229 or GE-129 are much heavier too.
220 series engines was part of msip.
The JHMCS and APG-63v3 upgrades are separate. Aircraft exist with JHMCS without the AESA
Reminder that the first F-15C got the AN/APG-63v2 AESA radar in 1999 making it the first production fighter in history to equip an AESA radar, so such a radar is available prior to 2000.
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Yes, however the v2 was essentially an operational prototype. It equipped a single squadron before being replaced by the v3. Most units went straight from v1 to v3
Personally, I expect gaijin add F-15C MSIP II with AN/APG-63(V)1 radar but IR & active radar homing Air-to-Air Missile early 2000’s before F-15C with AN/APG-63(V)2 or AN/APG-63(V)3 AESA radar, Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS), AIM-9X sidewinder and AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM
The helmet sight was first successfully tested on the F-15 as part of the testing of the highly maneuverable AIM-95 missile in the 1970s - the AIMVAL/ACEVAL.
The helmet sight was originally planned, but eventually made it on the F-15 after about 2007. In USAF, it was the first aircraft to get it.
Still more than enough for it’s addition per gaijin’s requirements if needed.
I agree, but I don’t think it’s likely for this update.
Agile Eye also was testet in early 90s
Eagle Eye ? You mean the rifle scope? It was first used in AIMVAL/ACEVAL
Agile Eye HMD developed by Kaiser electronics.
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Its not how flood works and “stealth” launch just for using the flood antenna.
Any kind of sparrow launch is “stealth”. Flood mode is just throwing out exactly the same tracking HPRF signal by the flood horn antenna which would normally be sent by the antenna and 2 horns when the radar is unable to relock or transition from MPRF to HPRF as backup if the sparrow could still guide but need illumination. It switches automatically.
If the pilot selects flood mode just to do it. It’s signal’s PRF is MPRF, and ranging is up to 2N.M. It’s like the radar inside F86 nose, just for ranging for the gunsight lead calculation. The lock is anything on the front on a WIDE angle (16°)and elevation(40°).
Now just firing a sparrow coming from an initial flood mode track, I don’t think its possible. One could argue that due to using MPRF, doppler is calculated therefore you feed that to the sparrow so it can home in on that doppler return But if its in MPRF, then the doppler falls to velocity abiguity. Then you gotta consider the MLC is considerably extended spectrally due to the ±20° illumination in the vertical axis.
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