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The Halloween modification makes it impossible to read data from radar and TWS displays in the F-15 module (and I suppose other FC3 modules) at night. Please, test these types of "surprises" before they are made public ...

All AWACS comm on multiplayer serves after 2.8 patch/updated is totally crazy. Many displayed info on one time, crashed audio srquences, no response on "bogey" questions. Totally corrupted.

What's the problem, take your girlfriend, wive, mistress, sister or whatever you have, into your hobby like DCS, and you'll have female pilots and female WSO.

The F-15E is a very modified version of the F-15C / D in terms of avionics, structural, drive. It was basically the F-15 Eagle II and the F-15EX should have been called the Eagle III. But that's my opinion. The F-15E is a dedicated STRIKE machine, not a fighter-bomber. It is also not a typical multi-role fighter. It is a very specifically conditioned and directed airplane. And, like the entire design and concept of the F-15, it is damn universal, well ...

Nothing has changed - suddenly in a month, two, five you will run DCS and here is another Update with 50 items for Mirage2000C because someone will come to the conclusion that the color of the HUD display should be a little different, because the rockets should fly 124.5 meters further because the radar should be able to see targets 20 miles later ... etc ... Even FC3 modules are not "safe" because with changes and patches, something changes every now and then. Nothing is 100% complete at DCS ever ...;)

One year - half year ago, he had a lot of flaws. And basically every other patch to OpenBeta introduces new changes and new elements to Mirage 2000. So from my point of view it is still not finished/closed. It may be one of the "almost finished" modules - similar to the AV-8B, but you can still expect something to change in a moment. Or it will change because of "fillings" or some vision of one of the creators.

The F / A-18C is used by many countries. It is nothing "high-end". The F-15E has much more possibilities when it comes to attacking ground targets, a much larger arsenal of weapons. In air combat, he will smash the F / A-18C as well as do it the F-15C;) Provided he doesn't get into stupid close range dogfighting... What will it be like when the F-15E comes out? Well, until recently the F-16C was completely unsuitable for air combat in DCS ...

Yesss pleassssee give us only one small sign about lives or death of project...

The problem is that if we wanted to buy modules other than those with early access in DCS, we would be doomed to MiG-15, F-86, F-5E, MiG-21 and FC3 modules ... :D All the rest, more or less it is still in the process of "finishing" and "correcting / supplementing" :D

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All in all, it's nice that you calculate it all ... except that the F-15C module is an FC3 module - no one in it has ever focused on comprehensive mapping of avionics. That's all you write about, 90% of cases are not "bugs" but the most common shortcomings in the development of this module. And until the moment when it does not come into being - and I am afraid no in My life - full fidelity module of the F-15C, nothing will not be changed and will not add anything more than what we have. So enumerating the shortage of avionics in this module against what should be based on the actual F-15C misses the point. If ED, RAZBAM, HeatBlur or any of the teams creating the FF modules for DCSa decides to make the FF F-15C module then searching for errors, inaccuracies, will make sense.

I am starting to treat this topic as an element of local folklore

I am currently carving a set for WSO - two side joysticks plus a center stick. When I finish, I will praise it Maybe it will be faster than "E" will come out I am afraid that the prices of the old good Suncoms will increase significantly

You know that gaining an air superiority in a certain area of operation / task does not mean shooting down every plane, who will appear in the radar range ?? I think you probably know ... Ensuring an advantage and maintaining it is, first of all, not allowing enemy planes to operate in the area. And for this, the F-15C was constructed and use from near 50 years. And giving him AiM-120 completed its idea and capabilities in 100% I am not an authority for anyone. But your vision of realism is a bit different from what is actually happening ... So, as I wrote, leave "your realism" to yourself and do not judge mine. Because from my point of view, You should fly in a Spitfire and not an F-15C.

Realistically? And that's why you pushing your F-15C opponent with Sidewinders ?? Well, realistically, especially against a relatively equal opponent That's F-15C why easily accelerates to speeds above 2 Ma and has AMRAAMs, so it to use it and not chase around tails like "ordinary" fighters ... But who likes ... I wonder how many kills in the F-15C with the use of AMRAAMs took place at distances less than 20 miles. Yugoslavia - 493rd Grim Reapers kils MiGs - well under 15 miles - but with Sparrow / Sidewinder use. Iraq, probably all aerial kills are either Sparrows or Sidewinders (I read that only Sparrows, but probably some numbers of Sidewinders also were be used) And that's probably enough when it comes to fighting the F-15C with the AMRAAMs available in DCS. Nobody in their right mind, having a missile at their disposal that gives them a 50% chance of hitting a target after firing it down from 20-30 miles away. In real nobody will not risk their lives and machine to get 10 miles range from their target. Especially in such a machine that gives the advantage of speed, height and range of weapons. And you write to me about "realism" ... nice Your realism - come on guys spinning in a circle in sight it will be fun ... if we die, PLAY and repeat again

Please do something asap with the damage model - if possible. It's terribly hard to break a Bronco. There are such breakneck landings that should destroy the machine, and nothing is wrong with plane. DCS system "disappears" plane from the map, but you can still repair it while at the airport and fly normally, but being invisible on the map. Today I made a loop over the airport, slowed down the speed to almost zero and fell from about 100 meters to the airport. I have easily repaired the machine, which physically nothing happened, I lost the ability to start the engines but after the repair I started as if nothing had happened. But plane still be invisible on map after this After being shot by the ground air defense, apart from a few small "holes" in the paintwork and one engine turned off, zero damage, smoke, fire, etc. Only after accelerating from a height of some 22,000 feet in a dive did the wing tip fall off. Bronco could be safe .. but probably not so much;) Oh, and I do not recommend flying above 20,000 feet, weird eyesight deteriorates Sight gets out of focus, and losing colours But still love this plane

The problem is that RAZBAM has been working on this module so much time that wasting energy on doing something that does not make sense is stupid. It is quite different to make a "strange" set of weapons, even purely experimental - the Mavericks are already ready in other modules, so adapting them for fun to the F-15E is a small piece of cake compared to making a removable CFT taking into account changes in aerodynamic, weight characteristics, etc. "Demands" to do something that will consume the next X hours of work just because that's what you can ... well ... if someone wants to fly an F-15E at the DCS air show, take the F-15C. After the case. During the shooting of acrobatics, I do not see the need to use the A-G radar, night vision goggles, A-G guided weapons ... So I ask - WHY take CFT off ?? To wait for another six months or longer for a module with something it is not necessary for anything rational? Well, unless we make DCS a flying simulator of anything, then I ask for X-Wing and Star Destroyer, necessarily with removable CFT: P 90% of people wanting a removable CFT on the F-15E from RAZBAM just want get the F-15C. Besides, it is not just me who wrote about it many times. It's just that the F-15E without CFT will never be the F-15C.

I was supposed to not write but what the hell :D Today, F-15Es were flying in Lakenheath. Including two planes - exactly one of those from the film thrown here earlier and another without CFT - both. But all of the rest F-15E's who standing at the airfield and who flying there with CFT. But that's not the most interesting thing ... the F-15C ... were sent back to the USA a few months ago ... and what do I see today at the Lakenheath taxiways and ramps?? F-15C from 493rd GrimReapers So what's the point of flying without CFT in the A-A Strike Eagle configuration with the F-15C when on side standing next to it? The F-15C has not yet been withdrawn from use in the US air force ... and as you can see it will no happen soon in the current geopolitical situation. So introducing to the DCS module something that practically does not apply would be pointless. The more that we will get from the RAZBAM F-15E in a version from a dozen or so years ago - and then the topic of removing the CFT was completely crap ... Maybe someone will make a full F-15C / D module someday ... but somehow I sincerely doubt it ...

Don't you appreciate the sarcasm with these percentages? Which does not change the fact that in Lakenheath they have everything you need to replace the engines, remove the CFT and make a complete service of the F-15. For many years, none of the F-15s from this base have returned for e.g. for engine replacement to the USA, they were replaced on the spot and sent for repair / inspection to the USA. It is not pressed intoservice for use as an F-15C. I don't know how to write clearer - F-15Es are not used without CFT. Nothing has changed. F-15C returned to the US, and swap it in Poland F-22 arrived at the same airport where the F-15E are stationed. F-15E which in the danger zone / zone demonstration of strength - all have CFT - the movie you so defend is a movie from a safe base far from the danger zone, shot on a regular training day. Someone flies without CFT. And I assure you that the same planes without CFT on the film, as they will be sent to Poland / Lithuania / Czech Republic will come with CFT. What sensors? Tell me what sensors can WSO use in the F-15E for air combat?? Only specifically. As far as I know, all avionics mode in air combat mode and A-A armament can only be used by the pilot. And here you are right, so if the plane is designed to attack ground targets, you shouldn't practice advanced air combat with it. The more so because it is heavier, has greater inertia and, in summary, it is weaker in air combat. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And finally - from the beginning of this topic, when someone raised the problem of posibility removing off in the Razbama CFT module - supporters of this "solution" are supported either by films / photos from air shows, or from test flights, or flights during service inspections. Now they got one more - I'll repeat - one - movie from the base that has been considered the second home of the Eagles for decades. And on the basis of these - how routine - repeatable - even exemplary combat of the use of the F-15E without CFT, they draw some conclusions, including the fact that from today the F-15E fly without CFT in combat, routine missions, and this is certainly a change in the doctrine of their use ... I do not look at this topic again

Once again - Lakenheath is the base where 48TFW is stationed. This is their home, they have 150% of technical, logistic and whatever facilities you want there. A remove from two or four F-15E his CFT to exercise / play in this conditions there is no problem. Let me tell you that I saw F-15C planes from 483rd with attached CFTs there. And now what will start that the F-15C are / have been used with CFT? I do not think so. The movie is from 2022 ... today we still have 2022 and I can assure you that every F-15E that TODAY is on NATO's eastern flank has a CFT and even for a second after leaving their home bases, did not remove them. If someone makes a movie in which the sailors on board the USS G. Washington will run in their shorts, it means that from now on it is a standard uniform for the deck crew of this class of aircraft carrier ?? The F-15E is not strictly a fighter plane. IT'S a strike machine. The fact that its crews are practicing air combat, and that it has retained 100% air combat capability does not mean that the USAF will suddenly remove CFTs from them and start using them as F-15Cs. That's what the F-22, F-16, F-35 are for. Nobody will send a two-seater machine into air combat when the other crew member is completely unnecessary. Not only that, probably even here on the forum the topic of differences was discussed - lower efficiency in air combat of the F-15E compared to the F-15C and F16. So it doesn't make sense any more. As of today, on the official website of the 48thTFW air base, there is not a word about training the E version without CFT. So it wasn't really a specific training episode. When larger trainings / trainings are organized in this database, information about it is always provided. So far I have not seen one there. Maybe these few machines were just going through periodic reviews, and by the way they came up with the idea to fly like their friends from the 493rd who were sent back to the USA. This is what it looks like today. None of the squadrons equipped with the F-15E train regularly as scheduled combat on the Strike Eagle without CFT. Neither in the USA nor in Europe. As you write - you see them for the first time in such a configuration - and you immediately assume that maybe something has changed, that they can be used now without CFT - so I explain - NOTHING HAS CHANGED. It is once again a single episode, detached from routine tasks, training plans, etc. Perhaps due to the withdrawal of the F-15C from Lakenheath, such "training / games" will take place more often, but only through nostalgia for the old Eagle. Before the F-15E is converted into a typical USAF air superiority fighter, they will reach the Lakenheath F-15EX sooner.

Do you have eyes... Well, show me, let's say 100 films from the F-15E with CFTs removed, a set of A-A missiles on, and each of these planes is to be from a different squadron. If on this 100 films from the F-15E, there will be 50 films with the F-15E with CFT removed (I remind you from other squadrons than the 492nd and 494th from Lakenheath) I admit that the USAF uses the F-15E as fighters in the A-A configuration without CFT. As of today, no one F-15E IS USED in COMBAT, OPERATIONAL OR IN ANY OTHER WAY without CFT. The exceptions are TESTS, REPAIRS, SERVICE INSPECTIONS, TRAININGS (damn rarely) and FUN at air shows and on open unit days. So far, apart from this ONE movie from Lakenheath and the cases of the "exceptions" mentioned, there is no other. And again, all F-15Es that are currently service on Eastern Europe, e.g. in Poland they fly ALL THE TIME WITH CFT.

They do not operate - they test / practice not in a "linear" unit but in their home unit in England in Lakenheath, where 48 TFW is stationed on a daily basis since 1960. Currently, ALL F-15Es that are moved into OPERATIONAL regions, such as Poland, Baltic countries, etc. FLY WITH MOUNTED CFT, none of them arrived WITHOUT CFT and none of them dont have even 5 seconds without CFT. They usually fly armed with only AiM-120 and AiM-9, but ALL THE TIME WITH CFT. Is so hard to understand?