F-15 Eagle: History, Performance & Discussion

Machinery of War Discussion Aircraft
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Who cares

If they are using it, they either don’t care or have knowledge of its declassification

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Talk about 18E/F manual. It is classified. About T.O 1F-15E-1 1993 it is declassified for gaijin (>30 years). And I and some other ppl already used it

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Just because their policy is 30 years does not mean that they are legally allowed to export an ITAR controlled manual.

Well, if in isolation, then nobody. But if they don’t hold themselves to standards they expect others to follow, especially using legality as the reason, then it is a bit annoying in the very least.

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but to fine the whole manual usually means that most people can find it so…

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Still does not mean it is declassified.
The Manual for the Eurofighter DA.7 is also on the Internet but it’s not declassified and you get into a world of trouble if you post it here

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Well, looks like I got my work cut out lol (about LJDAM and EGBU on F-15, 16, 18, 117 and AV-8B and A-10C)

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this has to be the easiest bug report ever

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We’ll see when it hits the live server. I don’t trust gaijin with anything

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Wqg0JaNf6slJ

bug report up, LJDAM all the way

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Some chance that the AAQ-28(V) might get A2A IRST modes.

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[DEV]LITENING AT (AAQ-28(V)4)A2A tracking and SARH / ARH support

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So the F-14B/D can get it too?

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No, but the Equivalent E-GBU / DM-LGB LGB variant(s) should be possible.

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So they’re just variants of the LJDAM? Why wouldn’t the normal one work? To my knowledge the LJDAM was available in 2005 which is before the Tomcats retired.

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No, they are GPS enhanced variants of the Paveway III kits.

Never mounted as EGBU’s were already in stock and the F-14 was effectively already being killed off by '98 due to the AIM-54D / AIM-152 program falling though and missiles not being remanufactures to prevent the motors from aging out of service.

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EGBU-24 on F/A-18C Late already.

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I didn’t see “mounting them in service” as criteria. If it didn’t even require any software I fail to see why it couldn’t be added…

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If that is the criteria we might even see the JSOW for them too, as it is technically possible.

The final step included incorporation of a new senes of advanced weapons such as Joint
Standoff Weapon (JSOW) and Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Again, the Navy
determined the Grumman proposal to be too expensive as a whole and restructured its F14 upgrade program to include only portions of the program, which they called Block I

In support of air-to-ground attack missions, the F-14D can employ unguided and
guided munitions Unguided weapons include Mk-80 series general-purpose bombs,
cluster munitions, mines, and airbome and Marine flares. Guided weapons include laser-guided bombs (LGB), and recently cleared MIL-STD-I760 interface class weapons, including GBU-24E/B, JDAM and JSOW.

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Idk, everything I have says 2008 for air force and navy a bit later

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Does anybody here have the empty weight of the F15EX?