Nope, two different eagles. The one pictured (F-15SA) is an Advanced Eagle variant belonging to Saudi Arabia and is a sister to other variants such as the F-15QA (Qatari F-15E) and the later developed F-15EX for America.
The F-15C GE doesn’t have fly-by-wire nor a reinforced body like a normal Strike Eagle enabling it to carry heavier loads (ie more missiles) like the Advanced Eagles can (so, F-15SA (like pictured), F-15QA (Qatari F-15E), F-15EX, etc). It’s also limited by pylon limitations as fluttering and other airframe limitations are a prime concern.
Soviet design from the onset of the Flanker prioritised large missile counts… so of course they can carry more missiles.
Additionally, in the design for the Flanker and the later incorporation of the dual pylons, the reason why they can is because the Flanker has a high lift body design with a low-drag area (or tunnel, really) in between the intakes/engines meaning the missiles carried there on dual pylons don’t experience the same aerodynamic stressors wing-mounted missiles do and obviously since it’s attached to the fuselage of the plane (which structurally would be the strongest part of it, btw) it is no problem weight-wise.
what i meant to say is that the Su-27SM and Su-30SM actually cant use the dual underbody R-77 pylons its only a feature for the Su-35S and is something made up by gaijin in game
Fully agree, it has worse speed than F-15E, radar is nice but C-5 is ass, its just a MSIP II with a better radar, does not warrant 14.3. If gaijin cant give it quality missiles(the c-5 is a worse 120a/b in closer combat range) then give it quantity
there has been an accepted bug report for BOL on F-15A and F-15C pretty much since they were added, so im not holding out hope that they will add it for this or that if they do it will be an advantage over the other f15C
Both the Su-27SM and Su-30SM can utilise dual rack pylons and your claim that it’s a feature exclusive to the Su-35 is inaccurate. The confusion is understandable, as the Su-35 is the pinnacle of the Flanker family and showcases the full potential of these underbody pylons. However, the capability is a family trait, not a unique feature.
I’ll have to sift through files to find the exact photo of a Su-27SM having dual pylons, but it does in fact exist. The Su-30SM on the other hand is based on the Su-30MKI (nearly 1:1 in fact if not for the SM housing Russian-only tech) and that was pictured with dual rack pylons and later on the Su-30SM itself was spotted with them.
a lot of the time things you see on first dev is how gaijin wants it and do not change.
Doesn’t really matter. People cry a lot how useless mech radars are and I’ll acknowledge they are inferior to their phased array successors but they are far from unusable as most players say. To me an AESA/PESA radar is more of a nice to have than need.
Straight up worse than A/B except high altitude long range launches which you already cannot do since EFT and F-15E/I outspeed you anyway.
Again, doesn’t really do anything. 240 countermeasures is just fine. Almost never run out of those.
This plane is DoA at 14.3 without more weapons or better weapons. Why would I play basically the same F-15C at 14.3?
