an irrelevant argument
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What previously happened to the strike eagles? Please educate me
Gaijin stated they didn’t want to model the US F-15E as a fighter by giving it the more modern PW-229 engines which it received later in it’s life cycle, stating it would have a better role in game as a CAS platform. However the Israeli F-15I was exported AFTER these newer engines were being put onto production models, so they couldn’t use the older engines. There were a few other changes that were controversial (extra CM on F-15I, no mavericks or agm-130 on f-15I) But the meat and potatoes is that Gaijin couldn’t downgrade the israeli one due to historical limitations, and the US fanbase imploded saying it should be removed.
Gaijin ended up giving both the same engine the next week and they both ended up being broken OP on launch due to the engines being very good, so gaijin’s original vision was completely overridden and the strike eagles both dominated in Air RB.
anybody else notice the EX can barely supercruise? isn’t it supposed to be able to sustain mach 1.1-1.2 in a cruise? I am testing with 7 min of fuel and no loadout
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If they where going to give the US F15E the f100 pw 220 instead of the 229 it would have been pointless to play compared to the f15c already in game in air battles
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It can’t irl
That’s what BvvD said was the stated aim in the dev stream, it wasn’t meant to be better for A-A
And that would have been pointless they where doing something dumb and got called out on it
I mean it might do 1.2ish max when clean or with very light missile load with the GE-129’s
not saying it was a good thing, just explaining the history behind that decision
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1.05 max wich isn’t true super cruise and only in short duration
On a GE-129 eagle and not PW-229 one?
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Ah yeah idk about the ge 129
It is kind of funny to think that it is a f110 though so technically a f14 engine
Uhhh, any sustained speed above mach 1 without AB is super cruise full stop.
Same deal, what do you mean by “short duration”, all the F-15s don’t have throttle duration limitations really beyond fuel limits.
there are patents for the 3 missile pylons per bay. i honestly dont know what gaijin will do cus so far we havent even seen a pic of su57 carrying a2a missiles in the IWB. so they can go with 4 r77m’s totally or 6.
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4+2 is more than good.
Wait until you find out none of the eurofighter nations have their typhoon aesa delivered
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depends wildly from missile to missile
in bvr, no give a shit about stealth.
J-20 and Su-57 will dominate with how much they can carry.
in close combat, its so radar to see a fight where more than 4 missile has been launched.