No HPRF minimum range for F-15 radar
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/C4DzKl6zKyDN
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so if F15A was stripped down and set time to climb records what if you strip down f15E and tried as it has better ones
F-15E missing bombs?
The bol pods??
The missing range on the radar???
It is still competitive don’t get me wrong but these are some nice HISTORICAL things to see.
(and they won’t make the eagle op either)
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Which one? GBU-53? Or LJDAM/EPaveway?
It’s hard to prove that they are on the F-15E. But… Twin pylons for the Su-30 are no less hard to prove.
They would be covered either as the discrete ALE-58, or integrated into the LAU-128B/A.
The LAU-128B/A includes the AN/ALE-58 BOL Countermeasures Dispenser integrated into the launcher.
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Yeah, I know about it. But we still need to prove that the F-15E carried BOL. Alas. We have a strange thing with BOL. The F/A-18C should have them too, but as you can see from the dev…
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The above linked Marvin Engineering products pages references both the LAU-128B/A & F-15E by name.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Than idk. Maybe one billion of chaffs is too OP.
For dev, this site does not seem to be an argument. “All photos show F-15A/C”. Funny.
Saab’s website also mantioned just “F-15”.
Why not both?
GBU-53 literally TOO OP for now. I think if add for example… 1 pylon or maybe 2 pylons with it for test this bombs.
About Laser+GPS… It must be on F-15E. It is not some OP thing. Almost all nations have such bombs already, with the exception of… Sweden, Israel and Japan.
It can also be loaded two to a station on the BRU-55 &-57, so capacity for the relevant F-16(C-50+) & F/A-18(E/F) can be reduced by half that of a BRU-61 loaded aircraft, to 4 / 8 AUR’s total, since the inner wing station of the F-16 can’t currently carry guided ordnance even though it’s properly wired ( MIL-STD 1760) for them IRL.
And they could really use some sort of point of difference to the F-15E, outside the lack of GMTI, and assorted A2G radar modes.
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GBU-53 is it integrated for F-16? Cuz i saw only on Super Hornets, F-15E and F-35. And one test flight for F-16.
Well, the F-16 is currently the best option for testing the GBU-53.
It is a UAI (Universal Armament Interface) store so it’s only a software change, and release certification away from being mounted on most modern airframes anyway.
Well, the only thing left is to wait. I would like to get something interesting and unique for US, but in the end I see an F/A-18C without a single unique weapon.
Biggest issue is that a significant portion of the stores inventory is in some way exported, so is very likely to be able to be duplicated in another tree somewhere (Sub trees really don’t help here) and that the few unique options aren’t actually on the table (due to existing precedent or game balancing considerations, e.g. Post Release control / re-target, LOAL -F&F & submunition warheads).
In reality they still didn’t have much that either wasn’t a Joint Store ( DMLGB / EGBU, JDAM & JSOW), or able to be carried by the A-6E / A-7E that it replaced (AGM-84E, ER/DL kit Walleye w/ datalink, AGM-65E & -65F).
One thing I would like to see would be the AGM-123 Skipper II, or BLU-95 / -96 (500 and 2000lb class FAE bombs).
Also as we don’t actually have a contemporaneous F-16 / F-15 / F-14 it provides no advantages there especially for the BR it’s at doesn’t matter if it doesn’t have a useful lineup either as it is basically overshadowed in terms of A2G capabilities, and it’s strengths are well known and easily worked around for most potential threats in terms of A2A, where it is otherwise at a notable disadvantage.
Even if we talk about Joint Store… JSOW for F/A-18 would be OP? I dont think so. It is literally Grom-like bomb in game. Even JDAM-ER… But we have all same weapons in game. Just Mavs with different name.
Thermobaric bombs will be interesting to view in game.
depends which (sub)variant would be implemented. As the various warheads behave very differently.
the S-13DF was a removed rocket that used an FAE warhead, so it does sort of have precedent, it’s just got a massive radius due to the TNTe that they used.