It’s an interesting discussion to be had before the F-15 gets here. Need to handle our expectations so when it’s not an AoA monster people aren’t surprised Pikachu face cuz it doesn’t match DCS
AoA(units) = AoA(°) + 10
40-45 AoA units before departure
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Well, in level vertical pull-up scenario. When there is banking involved the forces of gravity and other conditions cause premature departure. In the F-15, it seems this is a bigger discrepancy than for aircraft like MiG-29… since MiG-29 can pull quite a lot of AoA in a turn whereas F-15 seems to suffer from lateral motions more.
No. If you look on the charts above. The wing rock excursions (70° bank) were in a less amount (±12°) than a 1g(level flight) stall(25°) and was pulling up to 40units.
And for 10° and 30°
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Is that not more than the MiG-29? MiG-29 can pull quite a lot more AoA than that, with stability during a bank iirc.
I have no serious knowledge on the mig 29 besides its radar so I can’t tell.
But there’a wing rock. Yaw starts to be in the 40 unit range at low speeds
I’d have to dig for a bit since I can’t read Russian but ultimately I think I have furthered my point and you’ve validated it well enough. The F-15 is not some AoA monster.
F-15 is not an AoA monster
Ofc not but 30°-35° is still quite a thing
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With a high level of buffet, wing rock, would not be able to really pull the nose to shoot someone like that. Quite a hail mary… and I don’t think it will come with AIM-9X so there will be little ability to do that while scissoring and little reason to do so when you have the high T/W and energy capacity… Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. On the same note, the MiG-23 can pull similar AoA just fine, doesn’t make it usable in the one circle against say a Kfir or M2K.
People make the F-15 out to be this one circle fighting king and superior to the Tomcat in that regard (due to DCS) when in reality, the Tomcat has better high alpha.
That’s another good point, I get stuck on a specific performance metric when discussing stuff sometimes. Good to look at the big picture of things.
The only thing I care for the F15 is fast acceleration, fly high, turn without bleeding half my speed, amazing radar and launch sparrows without RWR finding out
No cw illuminator
STT signal == signal sparrow homes in
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I think they’re gonna hand it AMRAAM to begin with to make it more than just variety.
I think they should add them before active missiles. Fox 2 era is better either way. No need for active missiles ingame and radars aren’t modled good enough nor aspect dependent RCS is a thong whicj should be a thing. Range doppler maps aren’t even used as you saw last discussion. Theres a reason you use FM in HPRF.
Just gonna bump this up with hopes and dreams we’ll see this baby soon XD
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I hope if the F-15 ends up coming this patch (not a believer till I see it) that gaijan finally models PDI, was hoping the F-16C wouldve been the one to do it (since afaik APG-68’s modded for sparrows lacked a CW illuminator and had a special high prf tracking mode for sparrows) but that ended up not being the case, but the F-15 is a more clear case with it lacking a CW illuminator
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F-15 will be excellent whenever its added, the APG-63 in its base form will be superb and the over all characteristics will resemble what the F-4E was several years ago. The best top tier all rounder.
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What is the gimbal limit on that radar?
APG-63 vertical scan
yeah, but do you have the original case study report?
