Again you don’t know what you are talking about.
These aircraft were already a part of an active squadron. Having 1-2 aircraft down for a month or 2 at a hangar getting modifications and then flying immediately after completing them is literally how it works. They are not being ‘refurbished’. They go, they get the mod, they go back to the line. That is how this works, because by 2000 the APG-63V2 had already completed test and evaluation. When the aircraft were getting them, it was entering operational status. The LAST of 18 aircraft completed modification in December of 2000. The first of those 18 aircraft completed modification well before that. In my experience it’s 1-2 months per aircraft, at most 2 aircraft at a time. You can do the math.
Since Boeing states that it was delivered, there is no doubt that the aircraft was in operation. So why did Raytheon say December? A plausible hypothesis is that aircraft carrying the AN/APG63(v)2 were probably in service before 1999, but the radar itself had not reached operational capability. The radar probably achieved operational capability in December 2000.It is said that early AESA radars had a high failure rate even during operation. This also applies to AN/APG63(V)2 and J/APG-1. I think this is appropriate in order to harmonize the claims of both Boeing and Raytheon.
Yes. The radar had not reached IOC, which is a specific aircraft availability requirement. US F-15Cs outfitted with APG-63V2 were flying routinely for pilot training or air defense patrols well before IOC is reached.
Outfitting an entire squadron more than fulfills that IOC requirement, which is a far cry from what the F-2 could do by December of 2000.
If it does not reach IOC, it is synonymous with XF-2, so it would be the same as an experimental aircraft.Even if it is used for training or air defense patrols.If the IOC standard is to go across the entire squadron, then the F-15C is in December. The XF-2 achieved this goal in October.
Question, did F-15C test or equip MAWS?
I think not.
Only Japanese one.
And probably Israeli ones too
And Qatar, propably…
Qatar and Saudi confirmed, F-15QA and SA
Thery are not C, Advanced Eagle series.
I forgot, my bad.
Bong documentation of the emitters list in the F3 lists the an alq 127 in the F-15. And its a 89’ manual.
Might be testing? E specific? Or stuff from TEWS being classified we just don’t know?
I never read about MAWS on USAF F-15A,B,C,D.
I’ll try to find something.
Radar-guided missiles, yes, TEWS can do that
No, the fuck it did not. It was finally added to an active squadron in October. It was no where near IOC in October.
The F-2 IOC is definitely in October. I don’t know much about other countries, but the closest concept to Japan’s IOC is when it is deployed to a squadron that is not an experimental squadron.
Then using that same pretty weak metric, the APG-63V2 had reached IOC again, well before October of 2000.
Designation Systems claims that the ALQ-127 was used on the B-52G and E-3 airframes and was replaced by the ALQ-153; which is known to be a Pulse-Doppler MAWS system.
Though the -153 was integrated into some ECM pods(ALQ-131 & -184), which might be the F-15 specific(All variant) carriage method, though would depend on the pod being correctly configured.