Why does the F-15E have a 22.5% thrust loss vs other aircraft

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all propaganda against the US for sure /s

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its weird

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heard enough, nerf f14

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remove 9L from the B and make it 13.7, while we are at it take inspiration from very early factory models when no RWR etc was mounted and it was just a shell

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Not asking for first, asking for fairness or at least an explanation as to why it’s 22.5%

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What is there to make fair? Balancing? Still is one of the best lol

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US never fired Phoenix in combat - remove it from Tomcats.

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Now we are talking

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Rafale and EF are better, that’s like 4 nations worth of em lol so F-15 is like 5th assuming the F-15 is better than the su-30sm which it isn’t

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By the time your F15E is in space, a Su30 is lucky to be at 6k

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That’s… a bit of a stretch. Both are strong in their own way, direct comparison will tell you nothing really.

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WRONG, low orbit… Not space… If they fix the 22.5%, I’ll be playing kerbel space mission with my f-15e

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Ah cool, so its the average US main powertrip or? Can other nations not be good for more than 1 week huh

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F14

F18

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F/A-18A-D Hornet Intakes

S ducts seemed to be buffed against the straight ducts

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All jokes aside, who’s power tripping? I asked why it’s 22.5%. A simple question

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Well make a bug report and grab some sources to get it “fixed”. You will 99.99% not get an answer except from devs either way. And please just tell us 1 jet ingame that is a direct counterpart to its irl modification. The best speculation we here can give you is gaijin takes a rough 80-90% of the max thrust and balances jets around this and their general BR and tech. But keep in mind this may aswell be the exact opposite of how it really is

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well its not just the F15 its the F14 MIG 29 SU27s etc

S ducts seem to perform artficially better

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Yeah obviously, you can probably name around 90% of jets and be right

Wouldnt put it past them that they somehow have volumetrics influence that lmao

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well the hole thing about channel loss is that when you change the direction of the air it looses speed making it slower not feeding as fast straight shots to the engine should feed more air then S ducts TVC also effects thrust performance as your changing its direction

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I fully expect a completely unrelated variable for something else to influence the way it works ingame for airducts. This is gaijin we are talking about afterall really