All I know is the LITENING2 TGP is already in game and is no secret it’s been mounted on the F-15. So it not being there is a choice.
I already know the sniper will not be added they said no for the A-10C for balancing reasons.
F-15I also has more flares
GBU-15s and 10s. 16km range bombs, stand-off.
Not a lot of stand-off, but stand-off none-the-less.
War Thunder doesn’t allow >20km stand-off to be playable at this time anyway.
F-15I never used 220 engines. It used 229 from get-go.
While F-15E had used 220 and 229 engines as stated by US Air Force.
Now before anyone goes full ballistic triggered hillbilly. I am not saying US one should or should not have the newer engine. I am just simply stating that its completely realistic and not some fake news nerf.
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GBU-15s absolutely, but GBU-10s are maybe only really medium range. If you want to designate from 16km+, LGBUs are not as reliable as they spot the laser way too late for them to make significant corrections, so your bomb drops have to have been almost perfect anyway and for the target not have moved much.
But the F-15I gets GBU-31s anyway, which imo are better for those same long range cases (which are only needed against SPAA anyway).
In real life, all F-15E variants other than the American F-15E have 4 extra dispensers near the engines for 360 built-in countermeasures total. This includes the American F-15EX, just not the E.
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I know that. So F-15I better in not only engines.
Reposting my thoughts and comments from other F-15E thread.
A long time ago, I feared that they were going to make the USAF F-15E implementation dirty. Here we are. If the F-15E ends up having the -220 engines in the live server, it’s going to be marketed as F-15E (Early). Then, they are going to introduce another F-15E (Late) featuring a more powerful APG-82 radar and uprated -229 engines.
However, given that this F-15E version has HMD and more modern weapons, it makes even less sense. Therefore, I think the USAF F-15E should have the -229 engines.
A good compromise I can get around is that they are going to make it a special engine modification, where it replaces the -220 with the -229 without re-adding the new F-15 late version. They can add AN/APG-82(V) AESA radar as a special modification in the existing aircraft later in the future patches for us to unlock further improved capabilities.
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Perhaps combining the best of the two F15Es to bring exactly the same aircraft to the US and Israel is not impossible, although it is humorous. For Israel, the dire lack of its own ammunition will greatly reduce the appeal of this technological tree. However, I still think the American F15E will be the best attack aircraft in the game outside of Russia, and the Israeli F15E will be the best air combat aircraft in the game. That might be one explanation
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I still think the F-16C will be better. There are already bug reports of the triple 65D launchers clipping through the A2A missiles. So it could be that it won’t be able to mount A2A missiles with the triple 65D rack in the future, meaning that you will have to sacrifice fuselage LGBs to carry some self defense amraams.
Nobody said it’s unrealistic or fake, we’re calling out how the devs said it had its engines nerfed for balance but they give the more powerful engines to the Israeli F-15I
Didnt say anyone said its unrealistic or fake. Simply stated it would be unrealistic to give F-15I engines it never used.
Brother literally nobody asked for them to give the F-15I worse engines, we’re all asking for the F-15E to get the better engines it deserves
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I was responding to your “why does that same gripe not apply to the F-15I?”.
I don’t know how many times I need to say this but the devs said this on stream “we gave the F-15E weaker engines so that it doesn’t outshine the F-15C in air to air” yet the Israeli F-15I exists, if it was such a big deal then they could have added the American F-15E only and called it an “early” version, and not added the F-15I which has the “overpowered” engines that they didn’t want to add yet for the E
It’s actually balanced.
Much worse loadout, but a better engine. Seems straight forward.
No Mav’s, worse 120’s. Missing those quintessential items for a little bit more speed? Not worth it.
American one is better. Should give the Israel the mav at least and keep the best 120 for F15E.
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It has the exact same loadout aside from the mavericks what are you talking about
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Ok and? I wasnt responding to the devs choice of logic but the simple fact that 220 was never used on any Israeli F-15I.
What do you mean by “keep the best 120”? In a War Thunder, the A and B variants are exactly the same. Unless Gaijin is planning to give the F-15E the 120C-5s it should be getting, then they are the same exact missile.
The reason for not giving it the better engine alongside the Israeli one doesn’t carry water beyond Gaijin SOP of gimping US planes on launch.
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Even if that’s the case on 120A = 120B at firebirds launch, just the Mav difference is more than enough to warrant a better engine. They are the best air to ground option in the lineup. Considering it’s a ground attack aircraft that’s everything.