Based. All missile buses (not counting the Su-27) need buffs.
Maybe I don’t know enough about the F-15, but aren’t those all of the variants?
lol Su-27 is one of the lesser missile buses.
F-4F ICE is even better excluding the airframe.
F-15A is better in every way,
Mirage 20005F and 4000 are obviously superior.
Su-27SM gets closer to F-15 capabilities, but F-15C MSIP II was added so that’s far superior to Su-27SM.
Mig-35 is the F-15C MSIP II equivalent missile bus.
No. There are now the Advanced Eagles. These are the SA, QA, and EX.
there’s no such thing as an AIM-9F, and it has AIM-9Bs already
If I recall correctly, the AIM-9F is also known as the AIM-9 FGW.2, which is a 9E seeker on a 9B
The EX I get, but aren’t the SA and QA just variants of the Strike Eagle?
sure.
The Su-27 gets more missiles overall, the ability to carry more IR missiles (that are better than the AIM-9Li), the ability to carry more radar missiles (although they’re SARH), and gets HMD.
It carries less missiles, does not carry the OP R-27ER, does not have HMD, does not have a >30G IR missile, can only carry four IR missiles, can only carry four SARH missiles.
The Mirage 20005F is fair, but the real contemporary (due to ARH) for comparison would be the Su-27SM.
The 4000 lacks HMD, good SARH missiles, the ability to carry more than two SARH if it carries six IR missiles, and has worse IR missiles.
The F-15C isn’t a missile bus, though. The F-15E is.
No. They inherit the tandem cockpit and strengthened wing from the Strike Eagles, which rates them for 20,000 flight hours. But the true difference between a Strike Eagle and the Advanced Eagle is the flight controls. The former is still hydromechanical with control rods and pulleys throughout the jet. The latter is a move to a true Fly-by-wire system, which is what actually allows for the outboard pylons tonbe used.
That makes sense, at least. Were there any earlier variants with the full fly-by-wire system?
The F111 missing it’s 9Js
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AIM-9F is AIM-9B FGW.2
Obligatory Iranian upgraded jets using R-73 posting :D
(F-4 & F-5 respectively)
Also:
We’ve been on this topic before, it’s not as simple as slapping an Aim-120 on a pylon and calling it a day. They had a whole fkn program just to add 120 compatibility and capability to the F-4s in Germany (and another in Japan to add the XAAM-4 to their F-4EJ Kai ADTW, there’s a forum suggestion for it out that you can read up on if you’re interested). It needed a whole new radar as well as updated software and configurations to be able to use said weaponry, there isn’t a single F-4 that could use the Aim-120 during its entire service life, which extended up to the late 1990s, that should say enough about this topic as it is.
Also on the topic of the upgrades to the Iranian jets: the F-14 should have the R-27s at all, and neither should the F-4s, as the program to install and allow for compatibility ultimately failed and the radars and missiles couldn’t really behave with one another, leading to the integration attempt being abandoned. Hopefully gaijin changes it for the sake of historical accuracy, but if they don’t then idc anymore.
Also yes, the respective F-4s that could carry the Agm-88 should get them ingame. Long overdue…
Aim-9Es especially
which is ingame and not missing from the F-4F like you claimed
No
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Ahh yes, Yes that’s the one I was thinking of but forgot the name as of typing this, So definite thanks for this.
Furthermore, I wish the devs would get around to remaking the currently hordgepodge IJA Type 5 Escort Boat as that vessel is a mess but iirc it had a similar system that launched aerial mines into the air, (iirc it’s simply called the AA mine discharger).
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Good for you. You found a picture. Its doesn’t change what the manuals say. Stations 1 & 9 are not available due to the instability they cause.