Is the FM of F-15 historical?

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Is the FM of F-15 historical or am i doing something wrong? Whenever i turn it loses all of its speed unlike in F-16 it does not and can immediately regain lost speed

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F-15 allows you to pull harder, and allows you to bring more fuel.

F-15’s fuel time is identical to that of F-16A’s fuel time.
And you’ll benefit from reducing how much you pull in turns.

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@GeneralLee2000

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which F15

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F-15C/C Golden eagle

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ahh yea its close but not 1 to 1 F-15C-GE airframe is just overloaded and the engines thrust curves are wrong

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So irl should it not lose most of its energy/speed when it turns?

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it should bleed less at subsonic speed from what ive heard if the F15C has bad thrust curve below subsonic speeds hence why it suffers below mach

im not expert on the F15 im more a expert on F14s so i would ask general lee or Alvis

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Ohk. thanks for the info. If i ever have question on F-14 i now know who to ask

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Imo the performance discrepancy that was reported in the GeneralLee report was not as tiny as the devs addressed, it could have easily seen a fix like they did for the Flankers, would have been more fair as well.

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If the report is fixed would it bleed less speed while turning?

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Probably, since the report target was to also buff the sustained turn, giving it less bleed in turns would have helped for that.

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Gad to know that. Hope it gets fixed soon

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Yeah F-15 underperforms a bit not crazy but a noticeable amount.

However the F-16 is frankly made up gibberish and it over performs in basically every-way.

F-16 and stall fight shouldn’t even exist in the same sentence yet there are people who can stall fight flanker in the F-16 it’s insane.

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F-16 is overbuffed to hell thats why

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Gaijin ate too much fighter mafia propaganda

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Far too much

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Any proof of this?

It’s performance is not much out of whack when compared to other planes.

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The issue with the report is that the Ny values in the game are not take in correct reference so plugging them into turn rate equation gives erroneous results and will give erroneous results at higher angles of attack.

This is also why when I tested Mirage 2000 and MiG-29 turn performance numbers in the past that there is a huge discrepancy at low speed.

You can see it in action here.

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to be fair a lot of american rank 8 planes underperform in some aspects F15Cs with there FM and F14s with no AOA switch its just wacky right now i wish we could just get everything modeled accurately