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.
50g + PESA radar on the 30sm
At short range, the aim120 pulls the least because it cannot do shorter radius pulls like the others. If it is at longer ranges, that might just be that the missile is just too slow at that point, even a mica won’t pull well at long ranges after the motor burns out and the speed depletes.
As for notching, they are all the same except the mica, which has a stronger seeker.
the example i used was from 10km I dont know if that’s too far for a launch, but at that range they normally dont connect
Usually, you can’t kinematically evade them by going straight at them and turning last second. You either run away and deplete their energy or notch.
Do you have the replay so we can take a look?
So… you’re upset at one of the things delta-canard planes are good at (high manoeuvrability at speed)? Wut lol. It’s an F-15E, not light in the slightest, has the thrust to actually make it go fast in a straight line and will obviously struggle to turn at Mach 1.6+… what’s to misunderstand here?
The F-15E while a strong aircraft (yes, it is still strong) wasn’t meant to just go into theatre and sling off AMRAAMs. It can, but that wasn’t what it was made to do, hence the large selection of bombs and AGMs you have in the loadout. If an F-15 with decent manoeuvrability is what you wanted, the F-15C is a better (albeit slightly underpowered) choice.
Also, if you’re in the F-15E… a wise choice would be to not get within 10 km of a Rafale if you don’t already have an AMRAAM out on them. You’re just asking to get shot down at that point
From my experience, the F-15E’s radar works just fine in BVR. If you want consistent tracking performance in TWS, I recommend using the narrowest scan setting and just focus on 1-2 people in BVR instead of wasting your missiles and being forced to go back to rearm (at which point your team either evaporates leaving you to deal with the rest of enemy team hyper focusing on you or your team basically wipes the enemy team).
The HMD locking issue is not specific to the F-15E, it happens elsewhere too (even on the Su-30SM and Rafale, both of which you don’t have).
This works against the R-77-1 believe it or not. Because it’s capable of pulling more than your AMRAAM it also bleeds energy more if the target starts to turn in either direction. For example, F-pole manoeuvres work better at distance against missiles with high G overloads because they pull harder. Likewise, it wouldn’t really be as effective on an AMRAAM because it doesn’t pull that hard. The PESA on the Su-30SM pales in comparison to the AESA on the Rafale (which is basically a mini-AWACS on its own) and really is only a better AN/APG-70 in target detection and tracking (it doesn’t have a substantial elevation scan advantage over normal PD radars).
Checks out. AMRAAMs don’t pull hard (or should I say, start pulling decently) until they’ve built up speed, similar to Sparrows in that regard. Delta canards can quickly go into the notch and chaff off missiles faster than other jets. It’s a lot easier in the Rafale/Eurofighter (not sure if J-10 has it too) because of 360 degree MAW and RWR so you can tell just about when you’re into the notch. Anything fired within 10 km is easily evaded in those jets.
Rafale accelerates almost as fast as the f-15 above Mach lol
yeah but how do i download replay
I think it accelerates faster above mach, but has a low wing rip limit
What time was the issue you talked about?