Why was the F-15E/I nerfed after just one day?

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The F-15E’s top speed and time to speed was adjusted to a more realistic value based on set turn graphs (approximate the STR line to 1G) and some acceleration graphs (per altitude) in the F-15E flight manual. The sections used concern the 229 engine F-15E.

Here’s the full Dev response and original bug report:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/3PY9zPHYlMYa

There’s nothing ahistorical about this nerf. The F-15E was significantly overperforming and is still overperforming with certain loadouts (i.e. CFT)

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And the sniper ATP bug report that was accepted?? What happened with it?

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I have no idea. Chances are Developers believe it does not need the Sniper TGP or Litening II/III at this point in time as vehicle armament is a balancing decision made by them.

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TWS radar mode exist…

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No, it just shows up as a stupid ‘?’. Now that it is fixed, I can see the missiles as well as it being shown as F-15/

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Not my choice is it, if it where then BAE and Airbus would be developing a 6th gen air superiority/multirole aircraft with domestic UCAV and AEW&C capabilities, however America is very good at reaching it’s fingers into defense markets and saturating them with slightly above average aircraft

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I can’t find my F-15JM post, so I’ll just share the screenshots fresh:
F-15E: 2 minutes 21 seconds.

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F-15JM: 2 minutes 58 seconds.
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Brought the same afterburner fuel time, which meant bringing 1 center-line drop tank on F-15E.

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You’re right, that’s why we have missiles like Taurus and Storm shadow to do that for us, without ever risking pilots or airframes

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Can’t believe that they don’t know about air-launched cruise missiles, but eh.

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We can, US didn’t understand, that’s why they had F-35 to external hard points, which defeats the point. Just use missiles.

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AGM-158 cough cough

outclasses both storm shadow and taurus

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Don’t hurt their special moment.

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And european a2a missles outperform US ones.
US being way behind for years with aim 9x and aim 120s.

I dont quite see what ur point is

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Only 200km range shy of any where close to either example, cough cough. (AGM158A)
Later variants are like, um twice the price.

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Moot point, storm shadow costs way more than even the newest version of the jassm-er

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120D worse than meteor sure, but you can buy 2-3 120D for each meteor

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I thought we were talking quality here.
Price doesnr matter its when US missles are straight worse shrug

I am looking forward to the time US literaly will be the worst air nation cause their a2a armament stuff sucks

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Hasn’t aim 260 already flown, it just hasn’t fully entered service yet. And aim 174 is fully in service.

Compounded with stealth on stuff like the F-22 and F-35, and the sheer number of missiles some American fighters can carry like the F-15EX, I don’t think the US will stop being good

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“And european a2a missles outperform US ones.”

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Woe be upon ye, standard missile.

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in development yeah, it isnt released yet and then good luck finding enough information to model stuff around it
you know how gajin models new stuff like that

partialy same issue as the aim 260 and only being used on F/A 18 E/F s arent they? not many carried either

doubt they come together with the newer missles

the worse missles that get outranged yeah