I find it weird how they specifically said on stream “we didn’t give the F-15E the 229 engines for balance purposes” but they then show the F-15I which is a literal copy of the E but they gave that one the 229 engines?? Am I missing something? And not to mention how they nerfed both planes to only be able to take 4 amraams without the use of cfts, what is with them gimping american/nato stuff?
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JASSM is in a whole different class. Better in every way, not to mention the over double the range.
US crying about “gimped” F-15E while Germany has a bloody F-4 as their top aircraft
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Germany is gonna get the F-18 and eurofighter soon
They gave it to the Israeli F15. The “Balance” excuse isnt cutting it here
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they gave israel a worst variant since it doesn’t have the AGM65 which is the only useable ammunition for cas. Despite the fact that the I should be better with notably the Python 4.
It’s still very usable even without mavericks
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How? with gbu ? when pantsir can kill you if you stay too much in the air?
Then the F-15E should have also waited for this “soon”
still limited by maps…
The maverick isn’t the only weapon nato planes can use for cas, the gbus work well if you just fly high and be careful of pantsirs
I found the GBU-15V/2 to be extremely efficient against pantsirs, just toss em and dive, and this one gets 2
But I do agree the maverick is the easier weapon to use, I think that the Israeli F-15I should get mavericks and the American one should receive the 229 engines like the I has
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just like the D and C variant and its still only 2 possible kill before you need to rearme, i prefer the Kurnass 2000 over any other israel top tier strike aircraft.
never used them IRL
We wont get the P4, they cant have a minor nation get the best IR missile first.
For clarification; are you referencing a plane not yet added to War Thunder or was that a typo and you mean Su-27?
If Su-37, a google search is telling me it never carried an R-74 missile. Only the R-27, R-73, and R-77. If it carried a more modern R-77, okay. It’s what it had.
Comparable to the fact that the F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 (not yet added) also carry 120Ds. I’ll acquiesce to the lopsided implementation to aircraft in minor nations and agree that we can and probably should have higher BRs for advance missiles.
But the issue is still the repetitive and exhausting point that nearly all of the US’s aircraft have been gimped in some fashion upon implementation. And saying “hey, it’s getting Aim-120Bs so it’s not for nothing” when they are just copy and pasted As isn’t the umbrella it comes across as.
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AGM-65s were never used by the IAF
I sure hope they give it the -229 engines that make significantly more thrust.
There’s lots of planes that didn’t use things irl, for example the F-16D never used 9ms as far as I know, got them in game, it wouldn’t be a big deal to give the F-15I mavericks imo