F-15 Eagle: History, Performance & Discussion

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Britecloud 218 is compatible with ALE-47

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Oiled up Strike Eagle.

Even with no skin it’s super shiny. (Look at the AMRAAM)

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F-15QA almost pulling a Cobra.

thats not a cobra

it actually dosent pull enough AoA for that
it is more like a low radius normal turn

yes, hence why I said almost pulling a cobra.

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its not that it doesn’t pull enough AOA, it could if you completely disregard the airframes G limit, but it just has to much thrust, there was an interview with a pilot of a F-15, and according to him, where you pull the nose it goes, it doesn’t just sit there for the thrust like the F-16 and F/A-18

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Just goes to show the utter insanity that went into the design of both the F-15QA/EX and F110 engines…

That interview is probably for an F15 with F100 engines

but the F110 could also offer slightly more power
hopefully they put the -132 engines in sometime soon

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The QA/EX looks pretty maneuverable nonetheless. I would estimate it to be somewhere between the F-15C and the E

i think he knows

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This reminds me of something

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Unmatchable sparrows guided in by irst would be peak.
Unfortunate that the d would be the only variant that actually gets irst, as i think the camera module on the b doesn’t count as one

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i also dont think that that would be something that gaijin would want to add

just think about all the r-27 carriers with an IRST

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Technically a single IRIAF got A model IRST but the Iranians removed it on delivery and later readded it to an F-14 that crashed later Maybe if they had saved it they would’ve gotten the R-73 fully working on the Tomcats.

Edit: also the TCS can slave to radar and guide in missiles they only thing is that it’s range limited and still has all the drawbacks of the IRST.

No diss but the F-14D IRST is very much better than those IRSTs which is why the Tomcat D can even do that in the first place.

i dont think that the IRST would have been required for that

after all they got the r73 working on the phantoms that dont have one

sure,
but the r27 is very much better than the sparrow and now imgaine that you dont only need to defeat the radar but also the IRST of an r27 carrier

also there is still the Su-35 yet to come

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and its not like the IRL ranges of IRSTs matter much in WT
since they are all hard capped to 30km

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I believe one of the issues is that the F-14’s CADC didn’t like cueing up foreign missiles on it’s own radar unlike the F-4’s which already had 2+ profiles for IR missiles. So they needed an IRST to do separate cueing which the Tomcat didn’t have.