cough n001e and n001vep at 13.7 cough. j-11a at 13.7 is a crime
from what i can tell f-15e radar is perfectly servicable. I don’t actually have the f-15e, but i have the j-11b which has the exact same scan patterns as the f-15e and it’s quite good
Yeah forgot about those. The F-15E one is absolutelly better than those at the very least
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yeah to me all of the an/apg series radars are very solid. not bad at anything, generally good at everything. great narrow, and medium scans. mediocre wide scans however if they even get them
Yeah from my point of view, most of these medium prf TWS radars work all the same with minor range differences. Some have more useful scan patterns than others, but that’s about it
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Powercrept by the EF and Rafale. It’s the life cycle of every vehicle. Some never even get to enjoy being meta top dog.
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Sufa cries in the corner
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i mean f-15e can’t really go down. I think most of the 13.7+s already in general shouldn’t really see anything below 13.3. it’s really damn compressed from ~12.7 onwards.
There’s just such a major difference between something like a 13.7 f-15jm and a 13.0 f-15a
It’s really unfortunate the compression that happens at higher brs.
Also this compression is what makes the 13.3 f-16s bloody fantastic, omega seal clubbing in semi downtiers while still being competitive in full uptiers.
imo worse than the 16d lmao (air to air).
altho that thing shouldnt even be 13.3 in the first place, israeli mains ig
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its the heaviest F-15 loll what did you expect.
its called the strike eagle for a reason.
use it like that
which is not what arb meta is
so it will always be out of place
Agreed. Decompression is key. I woudn’t mind a hard barrier between some BRs either, or a mode without ARHMs
yeah i mean, my point was that its not supposed to be meta.
its not a air dominance fighter
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Old meta vehicle, unrealistically powerful engines, buffed maneuverability, amazing weapon set.
It’s like when the Gripen JAS39A was added to Sweden, it was highly regarded as the best plane in the game for quite a while till it was nerfed and upped in BR.
Finally both have been put in their places, sadly the Gripen suffers a bit, but the F-15E I’ve not heard any complaints on.
The F-15E is a one trick pony plane, it can only really do long range BVR well. The problem it has is that in an uptier the EFT does that role better. Which is likely why the F-15E is at 14.0, but moving it down further would also be bad.
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at effective ranges in ARB (30km or less), the R77-1 reaches the target faster
yeah it definitely shouldn’t get moved down, just another victim of the awful BR compression.
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yeah it definitely shouldn’t go down and I agree with you that BR compression is real bad. Especially around that 9.0-10.0 where flareless planes fight high g missiles. Also around 11.0-12.0 when you get teh switch to pd radars which work way better at low altitude than the older ones.
They hit within about a second of each other and at these ranges the speed doesn’t matter, just whether the other guy knows how to notch or not., you can say they are like 3% better.
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Yea now that average folks have had about a year of getting beat down it seems a noticeably larger portion of people have finally gotten used to the much faster time-to-target of these mach 2 BVR monsters since the addition of EF2k and Rafale and actually successfully evade in time. Which removes the one thing the F15E is strong for. Due to the performance it can’t go down in BR but it is certainly the most helpless of the 14.0+ airframes against competent opponents because of how fat it is, that just compounds with the AMRAAM being the worst fox-3 for HOB back and forth jousts.
Yeah I’ve noticed the AMRAAMs don’t exactly pull too hard (I use 120b), and seem a but too easy to notch. I’ve had Rafales or J10s just fly straight and then just pull last second, and the AMRAAM just straight up misses.