In this patch all F-15C turned into pumpkins(((
My radar locks on enemy missiles more often than enemy aircraft, and from the AIM-120 everything flies away into milk even from a distance of 5 km. But everything is random in the Su-30 and from the beginning of the battle a hundred missiles are flying at you. Complete crap, not a game.
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If we get F-15K, what nation would it go to? I don’t wanna say Japan considering their relations… But I also don’t think it would go to China- Honestly the two Koreas could probably get their own tech tree kind of like what China has with Taiwan.
U.S event maybe
Event Slam Eagle…? Definitely not.-
because?
Another eagle is always welcomed
For balance it would be a mess. Imagine being able to take essentially TWO Strike Eagles into a GRB match.
I mean you already have backups and it’s not like Russia doesn’t have the same capability but with separate aircraft classifications too making it cheaper to bring the Su-34 and SU-30SM in the same match with more powerful missiles.
This wouldn’t be a concern
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So the second one will have x2 price. It’s useless. Better to take F/A-18 and F-15E
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Considering how easy it is to dodge sams in the F-15E given its bonkers speed, and how many weapons you have, I don’t think points will be a massive issue.-
Along with this, I don’t think the U.S needs MORE CAS options.
It will be cost 1800+ SP. Better to take F/A-18 and after F-15E
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Need? Not really
Want? Ofc
Or the F-16C which has more CAS options than the 18C.
Or this, yes.
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This is already going to be the case when either a “late” Strike Eagle or F-15EX is added, regardless of where the F-15K ends up.
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Both are still missing a considerable number of options, and the F-16 is basically missing 2 entire pylons of options outside of 2000LB LGb for “‘some reason’”
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imagine they classify f15ex as a fighter (because its currently replacing f15c) and you can have 2 f15e without increasing spawn costs
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The upper surfaces of the intake channels are similar in function to LEVCON. 1:30 min.
The following is taken from “The Search for an Advanced Fighter: A History from the XF-108 to the Advanced Tactical Fighter” by Maj. Robert P. Lyons, Jr., 1986.
FIGHTER EXPERIMENTAL (FX): PRECURSOR TO THE F-15
Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, still argued in 1968 that the F-111 would cost less than the FX, though its unit cost at that time was $12.9 million. He contended, moreover, that aircraft were needed only as missile launching platforms, and could therefore be low cost standoff machines. By now, however, the Air Force leadership sought to avoid at all costs the earlier mistakes of the F-111. The new family of fighters introduced by the Soviets at the 1967 Moscow Air Show reinforced the Air Force’s decision to modernize its air combat fighter force regardless of any residual pressure for multi-service or multi-mission commonality. Air Force Chief of Staff, General J. P. McConnell, testified at a Senate hearing that the sole purpose of the FX was to secure air superiority, and any attempts to expand that mission to include close ground support capability would occur “over my dead body”. During the three years of Concept Formulation from 1965 to 1968 all the disparate issues were debated and the background analyses performed; the consensus was the aircraft would be a single-point-designed air-superiority fighter.
The government and industry also investigated over 500 conceptual variations to determine the qualities needed by the new advanced fighter. This new Air Force fighter would have a single seat, two engines, radar and infrared missiles, and would reintroduce a gun for dogfighting. (The F-111 also had a gun, but to this day it is rarely employed.) The information was issued on 30 September 1968 requesting proposals for Contract Definition from eight airframe manufacturers. Fairchild-Hiller, McDonnell-Douglas, and North American survived the first competition and produced outstanding proposals. McDonnell Douglas won the FX, now called F-15, development and production contact competition on 23 December 1969 after months of technical evaluation.
Although the F-15 was another “paper airplane” like the F-111, and drew the wrath of many who wanted to return to the days of purchasing only airplanes that had proved themselves as prototypes, it did feature concurrent, separate prototyping of key elements of the weapon system. Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Hughes Aircraft Co. won contracts on 5 November 1968 for competitive attack radar development programs, with a fly-off for production twenty months later. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney won competitive engine development contracts in August 1968 awarded jointly by the Navy and Air Force for F-14B/F-15 fighters. At the end of the eighteen month contracts, one engine would be selected for production. Hughes and Pratt & Whitney were the respective winners. And, finally, Philco Ford won a contract to develop the GAU-7A 25 mm caseless ammunition gun.
Reversion to an aircraft designed for a specific mission and the increased use of prototyping were only two of the significant changes in the F-15 program over the F-111 program. Total package procurement was now replaced by an incremental contracting strategy with incentives and milestones to be passed before the next increment took effect. No one above the Air Force program manager overturned the source selection decisions, and most importantly, the Air Force program director became responsible for the daily program decisions with no interference from the DoD. He reported directly to the Commander of Air Force Systems Command, the Chief of Staff, and the Secretary of the Air Force.
The F-15 program marked a reversal of Defense Secretary McNamara’s policies and practices, and in large measure was a response to the F-111’s shortcomings. The program to produce the first true air-superiority fighter since the F-86 more than twenty years before was in good shape and took the search for an advanced fighter into the 1970s.
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what I hear is buff f15
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Flight model wise, it is pretty alright. Of course the E doesn’t have its ordnance. All the Eagles miss the BOL pods. Their radars are pretty nerfed into the ground.
Other than that, they are pretty good
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