F-15 Eagle: History, Performance & Discussion

Machinery of War Discussion Aircraft
3589

Lord hahaha, though I’d imagine dropping 360 BriteCloud would be pretty expensive.

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3590

I’m sure they can find some space in the budget

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3591

180

2"x1"
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3592

The 240 on the old E ingame are 1"X 1"?

3593

Yeah. 8 dispensers with 30 slots

I mean. On F-15E 120 briteclouds, on F-15EX 180

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3594

That’s still not bad at all, I’ll take it

3595

Isn’t each of the ALE-45 dispenser units entirely modular; so accepts the MJU-11, -12 or -17 Countermeasure magazines, which themselves are loaded with Flares, Chaff or Jammers? So could take any configuration of uniformly loaded 30 1x1", 15 1x2", or 6 2x2" Countermeasures?

3596

Yes, every ALE-45 is modular.
Since I was asked about 1x1, I answered about them.

2" x 2.5"
So Yes, 6.
Also there is MJU-10 which 2.7"x2"…

3597

?

The MJU-10 Flare cartridge is loaded into the MJU-17 Magazine

"Aircraft: F-15

Capacity: 6ea MJU-10 Flare Cartridges"

I would kind of expect them to fit, does that figure include the requisite impulse cartridge (BBU-36/B), and casing? And everything I’ve seen quotes the MJU-10/B as 2x2x8"

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But then the Brochure quotes 2x2.5x8"

And a technical paper;

“The MJU-10/B configuration is identical to the lKlU-7A/B (containing the slider assembly),
except the MJU-10/B is thicker (2.66 inches vs. 1 inch), and it does not have a first fire mix
(Figure 5.2-5). (The first fire mix is also being eliminated in the MJU-7 to provide increased
contractor safety and reduce cost.) The MJU-10/B uses the BBU-36/B impulse cartridge. There
is also a simulator version, the MJU-10 (T-l), which uses the M-796 cartridge.”

Seriously why do so many sources not agree?

3598

Along with the other image sent, here’s one in-flight:

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3599
Spoiler

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3600

at this point whats even the point to talk about this stuff, hell our main armament is still the damn agm65d

3601

Kinda off-topic, but it still bewilders me that there are F-15s with F110s now

3602

well, Ds for air force jets, and Gs for navy jets, but yeah, i agree, i think we are way up on the K model now, it would be a more modern version of the G, same with the J

3603

no 3 racks though

3604

quite right, but the AGM-65H had the ability to be tri racked

3605

AGM-65H is TV. And anyway. The problem isn’t that we have an AGM-65D on the F-15E.
The problem is that the AGM-65 is basically garbage at 12.7. Any version.

3606

Well, It isn’t exactly like there is even a direct equivalent waiting in the wings. the options that do exist leave you with either one per station, the same IIR seeker (due to Dev fiat), are unpowered, or attack area targets.

Best I can think of would be the AGM-154B or -154C-1, for most of the Teen series, or the GBU-53/B from higher altitude against massed SAMs due to the edge in magazine depth.

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3607

Only against ships.

Good, but for F-15E we already have JDAM-ER.

Well… Anyway I prefer 1 JASSM/SLAM/SLAM-ER/etc.

GBU-53 pretty cool
Still, we have JAGM-Fs also.

You mean cluster bombs?

3608

pretty sure F-15E can mount JAGM?