Correction: seems like they do indeed have good range and energy.
Another thing is the placement in the tech tree.
My opinion is that it should come after the F-1 while the F-16AJ Line should be kept open for the F-2 when it comes.
What’s your take on that?
F-15J follows the F-4E J Kai as an import fighter, F-2 will follow the AJ and F-1 as a domestic fighter
Potentially, though I generally rarely launch rear aspect (mostly cause 9Ls) as they’d get seen and flared off.
Ideally the AAM-3 should be faster? I don’t know what the drag is like but it should zoom through since it’s mach 3.5 instead of mach 2.5? Will have to see what the final performance is. I’m sure the current one is a placeholder that was copied off the 9M.
Shouldn’t the AAM-3 have superior range as it replaced the 9L which has the same motor and range as the 9M?
Hopefully its just WIP as it realistically should be superior to the 9M in most every way.
As much as I’d love to believe this, I think this is only speculation and doesn’t have a source. I believe only the AAM-5 is Mach 3.0+ capable.
That’s the thing there is practically no sources for this things
Oh alright. Either way, yea it should be a better 9M.
Report about the seekerhead gimbal limit and trackrate has been posted. We shall see what happens.
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Sadly you’re right. I just dont really imagine the missile that completely replaced the sidewinder would have worse range. Too bad thats not enough for a bug report :/
it has a far lower drag coeff and far better range than 9m currently, don’t see where the bad range complaint is coming from?
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I hope they quash the issues regarding the AAM-3 as soon as possible, otherwise it’ll be here to stay until we beg and bother Gaijin for about 2~3 years until they decide to change it.
On that note… AAM-3 would be nice if it came to the F-4EJ Kai, to further supplement its historical loadout (although I havent given much thought on how it would sit in BR if it got it)
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Checked its range performance in Dev server and it looks better than AIM-9M in range.
Test conditions:
Range 5km. Speed 900km/h. Target - MiG-15 from test flight.
Results: AAM-3 hitted the target and AIM-9M lost all energy and missed.
So it is really better than AIM-9M.
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Interesting thanks cool diagram
also i hope gaijin add at least ONE skin the F-15J do have that reputation when it comes to liveries
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/18cza5y/liveries_i_need_for_the_confirmed_f15j/
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Especially the black one.
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Did they fix the wing rip? I could sustain 11/12 G pulls with or without fuel tanks and still didn’t rip.
Did the Japanese F-15J historically have an HMD? I know some of the later models did, but just wondering overall, since my understanding is the F-15J is based off an F-15C
HMD was implemented in the 1990s.
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You can go 12g. Any higher will ripp your wings