henshao
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no help there although given the m60 and m58 motors are a 5-point star I would assume the m46 motor is as well
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null unclassified and from 1963 null
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unclassified and from november 1971 null
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you must be new around here
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if you have the mod installed you should be able to tell us whether it has the extra thrust although I don't think any F-15 can do mach 2.9, that takes more than an engine upgrade to survive
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Jettison center tank? Jettison smoke pods?
henshao replied to -Vindicator-'s topic in F-15C for DCS World
if the official manual is any indication the wing tanks SHOULD drain before the centerline tank...in desert storm there was at least one engagement where eagles punched their wing tanks but retained the centerline -
yes it should be done right or not at all, so many projects come out nowadays where there is clearly no love behind them
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It is not.
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of all the missing features the SIT page (datalink) I would trade the rest for without a second thought
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mcdonnell's previous jet is eagerly awaited by many around these parts, if that's any indication
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There are two categories of CFTs in existence for the F-15, fuel-only tanks (with missile hardpoints to replace the ones on the fuselage) and bomb-rack CFTs. You can most often see Israeli F-15's carrying the former, US Eagles based in Iceland would often carry them as well. the E and EX carry the latter
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the charts exist for the E without CFTs with both -220 engines and -229 engines, and they're right next to the charts with CFTs, but we are straying a little bit. I would agree with the general notion that the two-seat Eagles handle differently but it's not a completely different jet either. I mean the flight model changes every time you fire a missile or drop a bomb this isn't some impossible task
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Hard to say. the F-15C has a great deal in common with its little brother the Hornet, but not as much as the Mudhen
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the -220 F-15C's engines are more powerful than the -100 A's under nearly all conditions except static on a test stand and the -229 engines in the F-15E are (much) more powerful still. You can tell by the relative acceleration of these aircraft at a given weight on their charts I don't know what it will take for this information to become widespread but here you go https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-15e-strike-eagles-now-flying-without-conformal-fuel-tanks-on-air-defense-missions without those bomb racks the -229 F-15E has performance in the realm of the Typhoon IMO
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the reason the USAF never used the single seat F-15s to drop bombs is because the USAF was uniquely positioned to have a bomb truck superior even to the phantom and dedicate it solely to Air to Air, no other air force could afford this including Israel which bombed stuff plenty with its F-15As and Cs. the USAF at any given time had phantoms, f-111s, f-16s, A-7s, and a plethora of heavy bombers
