No
With the MRML and the additional wing pylons, we get to 16 missiles (GE gets 12, E gets 8)
Ah my bad then, are those engines much better tho? I don’t have the figures in mind
Sad, was hoping for the F110-GE-132 (84,5/144,6 kN instead of 76,3/131,2 kN).
Today?
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Nah that engine is only on the F-16E
Ohk. Thanks for the info!
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Also it seems AMBER racks can carry two amraams each, so with AMBERs on the belly we could get to 20 or 22. But that’s hypothetical, afaik there is no evidence of this being ever trialed
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And when are you planning to consider fixing mica which is underperforming by more than 50% in range, and can’t even meet it’s ground launched performance (not even air launched) !?
Well, General Electric themselve say that the GE-132 is “Fully compatible with today’s F-15E and F-16C/D”. But I guess it wasn’t retrofitted/equipped.
Yeah technically every F110 and F100 is compatible with any F-15 and any F-16, but the ones in game use the engine they really used
Its not really necessary, when it’s already the best or 2nd best fox 3 missile with R-77-1.
And neither rafale or M2K suffer because of it’s lack of range
until there is a significant change in the meta, where mica will see itself being surpassed by amraam and the likes, it should remain as is
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Great, this means Aim-120D will also be gimped just like other ones…
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Ok so I just checked the figures online and it seems like a very forgettable difference…
PW-229 gives 129.7kN
GE-129 gives 131 kN
That’s nothing compared to the differences of, say, PW-220 and PW-229
Not necessarily as it could require the air intakes to be modified (that’s why the F-16A/B isn’t listed which has a smaller air intake than the F-16C/D and later). It depends on the air mass flow the engine needs.
The dry-thrust difference is bigger (76,3 kN for the GE-129 vs 79 kN for the PW-229).
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Of course, I was just pointing out that you can fit any, even though it’s not necessarily optimal. The F-15s have large enough intakes for any engines, but it doesn’t mean they all should get the best engines. The F-15E already has the later engine (229) instead of the earlier one (220) but that’s as far as we can stretch
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Dude, MICA is already the best missile in game by far. Until other nations can get similarly capable HOBS missles (aka IIR like 9x, ASRAAM, IRIS-T etc) nothing should be done to it. Afterwards yeah, fix it’s range to make it competitive in BVR
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Yeah yeah i know the song, if it’s french stuff don’t fix it, if it’s russian, chineese, or american fix it now !
Brother the MICA is more than fine in the current meta, it has been one of the best for over a year now. And it’s crazy to say what you just said considering the state of the amraams
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