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When the F-15's radar goes into Medium PRF track, it is very notch resistant, utilizing both range-gate and velocity gate and more, but of course nothing is perfect. As I have pointed out in other threads, when the target is both very low and with little to no closure, there is very little to separate it from the actual ground from a radar perspective. That being said, historically no F-15 was delivered without having its ability to track a target through a look-down no-closure situation first verified by McDonnell

i'll just put the whole thing together *the Automatic Flight Control System may be better without the jet necessarily being better

I think you quoted the wrong person

"failing to realize" literally exactly what is being requested...a slick F-15E (with 8* missiles) also I'm curious what "computers" and "sensors" you guys keep saying are in these conformal fuel tanks

If you wanted to call this a FAST pack I ain't gonna stop you

I can't say for sure, there's no easy way to tell from the outside

IIRC a handful of -229 F-15Cs were sold to Saudi Arabia; these were built after McD had switched to strike eagle production and were effectively single-seat E's, and thus probably still about 4000lbs heavier than an F-15C. For reference a clean F-15E is quicker to mach 2 than an F-15C by a staggering amount, and the -220 has more guts on the top end

The site I linked indicates the MSIP F-15A also had -220 engines, which as you correctly assert, are substantially more powerful in the supersonic regime. Specifically they are about equal to a -100 engine that is trimmed at 102% on a cold day...the -220 eagle can comfortably break mach 2 with 8 missiles on a standard day

At least some were http://www.amarcexperience.com/ui/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142&Itemid=172 Before these events, in 1983, McDonnell Douglas and the Air Force agreed on the development of two Multistage Improvement Programs (MSIP) for the F-15, named 'MSIP I' and 'MSIP II'. These programs were designed to upgrade the F-15 in most areas including radar and avionics, improved countermeasures, armament (including the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range AAM (AMRAAM), the modern follow-on to the Sparrow missile), engines and stronger landing gear....Due to the projected costs of MSIP I, which was aimed at the F-15A/B, it was cancelled but the MSIP II program, which was developed for the F-15C/D fleet, proceeded. A number of F-15A/Bs were provided with a subset of the MSIP II upgrades including such items as the stronger landing gear of the F-15C/D, F100-PW-220E engines, and improved Raytheon AN/APG-63(V)1 radar. However, a large number of the F-15A/Bs were deemed to not be suitable for the upgrades and were retired from service. The tail number on this AMRAAM-shooting Louisiana ANG bird starts with 77-, ie the year it was made (therefore F-15A). Specifically it is an F-15A-19-MC Eagle (block 19 F-15A) http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1977.html notably this appears to be at least an AIM-120C

I've made some ridiculous WVR shots with the 120C as well, shots I never expected to connect. This isn't me: AIM-120c trying it’s best to be dogfight missile. : hoggit

Ok I mean a hard turning within-2-miles dogfight situation where the missile has to maneuver hard (150+ degree turn) right off the rack and starts out at the jet's speed of maybe 300 knots, the big fin 120B might be better than the 120c. It would require testing in game though

AMRAAM is not a thrust vectoring missile

every time this gets reported somehow ED can't find anything wrong with it, even though if you go back to FC2 or earlier the aircraft will latch onto a specific altitude and hold it like a rabid alligator. Or the fact the other FC3 planes did not get their altitude hold broken. Also for the record F-15 does not have a trim reset function, take-off trim explicitly gives a slight nose-up command for reasons I won't go into however what it does have is the ability to manually reset trim to 0 that DCS lacks...if you ever trim a plane in DCS you will never be able to get it back to zero, sometimes even with a trim reset feature. this is most notable with roll trim

Don't quote me on this but I think the AIM-120B with its big fins though it has shorter range it has better maneuverability than the 120C. Specifically turning performance below corner speed. IE if you had to use one at dogfight distance the 120B would be better. But I could be wrong.

I know the AFCS on the E has some expanded capability compared to C for high alpha regime. And also I am aware EX has full fly by wire. I am curious about the empty weight of that bird, I hope Boeing appreciates the masterpiece they have inherited (I still think the silent eagle might have sold had they offered carriage of stealth weapons pods from F-18) The F-15 is a very underrated 1 circle fighter, for similar fuel load the clean F-18A and F-15C have sea level max thrust stall speeds within 5 knots of each other. All this being said I would gladly select a C eagle to go against a CFT eagle in a one circle despite the improvements McDonnell did not leave a lot on the table as it is, one area fly by wire might expand for instance the F-15 does not technically "stall" under normal conditions as the stabilator deflection range is designed to stop just short of the wing actually stalling. Normally an F-15 under power or otherwise at max aft stick will always settle into a high alpha ~35 deg "glide" but not a true stall

It is not my area of expertise but food for thought: Heating comes from friction of the air, but also eventually the pressure of mach speed; Foxbat and Foxhound are made primarily of steel, and their temperature limit and dissipation properties would be different from aluminum/composite aircraft; Another very high temperature aircraft, SR-71, was considered an acceptable target at any aspect for Mig-25's R-40TD missile Former F-14D pilot "Puck" Howe claims he could track, of all jets, early F-22 in military thrust with the exceptional AN/AAS-42 IRST from long range

They started making C eagles in '79 so not exactly outside a cold war time frame

Did someone say F-15A?

I don't know what you mean by "neutered" or "can only" but as delivered by McDonnell your jet supports AMRAAM and Sparrow from the fuselage.

I don't know if you are just being facetious about CFT removal or really forgot that the F-15E has the same 5 fuselage stations as every eagle The DCS F-15C is not low 'quality'; it is low 'fidelity' (particularly systems fidelity). The flight model is considered Professional level, at least for a clean jet being hand flown*. I hate to break it to you but the F-15E is somewhat hamstrung compared to the F-15C in air to air. It has lost a lot of the F-15C's underrated low speed high alpha capacity. Further unlike the "smooth" fuel-only -3CFTs the F-15E tanks are heavy, draggy, on an already heavier draggier airframe and impose somewhat steep mach restrictions when loaded even with only air to air missiles (unless these were rescinded and I don't know about it). They put bigger engines by necessity. That said those big -229s are very powerful in the medium supersonic regime and the mudhen has ETERNAL fuel supply; an extremely powerful radar with datalink and top-tier weaponry. So just fly it like an F-14A and you should be good (ie be very careful who you merge with) *there are discrepancies even here but they are minor

I think this is an Operation Southern Watch bird: Very strange that the 93 manual expressly does not list the CFT stations for AMRAAM as it does for Sparrow. I remember reading something about "eagle claw" fuselage stations for the AMRAAM getting frozen on initial deployments and perhaps it had yet to be overcome by 93

I see Sparrows listed, and AIM-120 listed for fuselage but not CFT

Can F-15E carry AIM-120 on CFT stations? When was authorization given?

F-15 also launches missiles in a similar fashion (IRL right sparrows then left sparrows) so I assume this is perhaps a drag concern (2 missiles carried in line pay drag penalty only once)

Aren't sparrows tuned to their mothership radar by channel? Is there a code as well?