So… is this thing coming in this update
Indeed, it appears to be coming in the next patch. I am surprised it’ll be here so soon if confirmed. I’d wager that the first F-15E aircraft will probably be the early version with Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220s and Raytheon AN/APG-70. The late and improved version will come evidently later to keep the grind going in the Strike aircraft line (more profitable to do this from the business perspective).
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I fully expect this to be the next “big” addition to the US, especially to fill the role of top tier CAS. The dedicated attackers just don’t cut it.
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why f15e only get pw220 while Israel f15e has pw229?
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congrats on getting this into the game!
Israel only ever used the pw229. Not to mention the F-15E and F-15I are far from being the same aircraft with tons of differences (such as retaining the 940 round drum while the F-15E had ~500 rounds, or the fact the F-15I had a lot more countermeasures than the F-15E. Not to mention the F-15I never used mavericks).
The reasoning gaijin has given for keeping the Pw229 away from the F-15E is that early F-15E’s used the earlier engines, and that they should keep it from them for balance reasons instead of just adding late and early variants.
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120 cm and 430 rounds makes up for the engine + nobody cares bout balance especially gaijin
F-15I was developed from the F-15E, it shouldn’t have 940 rounds
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It does, all sources indicate such. Although it was developed form the F-15E, it is NOT an F-15E. This argument was already discussed in the F-15I forums post suggestion, you can go read the comments on that here:
And that person is wrong, just as he was then.
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The sources state otherwise.
His sources, aren’t.
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I am skeptical about the claim that the F-15I Ra’am has 940 rounds.
I read all the secondary sources this person initially included in the suggestion. All failed to indicate it could carry 940 rounds. This person claiming it could take 940 in the comment section cited the abstract Fact Sheet Display page of the USAF F-15 Eagle. The specifications are for the F-15 fighter version, NOT the strike fighter version, so of course, the F-15A/B/C/D has 940 rounds.
The website the person cited was https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104501/f-15-eagle/
This official USAF website even has another Facts Sheets Display page specifically for the F-15E Strike Eagle, which had mentioned 500 rounds for the strike fighter version. https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104499/f-15e-strike-eagle/
Unless concrete declassified primary sources are provided and stated otherwise, I am under the assumption that the F-15I Ra’am was a special version derived from the F-15E development, and therefore, the F-15I would follow a similar configuration as the F-15E.
Anyway, this is getting a little off-topic. Let’s take this debate to somewhere else.
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Correct. There is also this from General Dynamics which states all F-15E deliveries are using this system, developed specifically for the Strike Eagle and it’s derivatives.
It also indicates that the aircraft should have the PGU-28/B SAPHEI rounds found only on the F-16C currently. This is also incorrect and should be on all F-15 variants, with the exception of maybe the F-15As due to timeframe.
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Bug report for missing PGU-28A/B SAPHEI Belt
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Y1vDJGxNxqy6