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Not really. depending on the era, the F-15C is fully bomb-capable, but RAZBAM wouldn't model it "because the USAF doesn't do it" as seen in this thread. Nevermind if say Israel has done it in combat on numerous occasions. Also, an F-15E without CFTs is as mentioned earlier, a different animal still to a light-grey bird. Heavier but more powerful with stronger wings

hilarious although I think a D model would be closer

You say I am conflating different things?

this is an extremely silly game to play...how many times has an f-16 gone head to head with 5 su-27s while carrying a single amraam on the right wing? There is a business argument to be made both ways. They've weighed and measured it in favor of not modeling the jet without CFTs, and probably that is the financially sound choice, however if it made business sense to do so I'm sure they would (ie if it was certain to double sales, or similar). Ultimately it is a product, and a video game, and it all comes back to the green

And I say you drastically underestimate how many people want or would want such a thing. Especially after the first Growling Sidewinder or whoever video demonstrated just how powerful the unencumbered airframe is.

I remember in FC2 there was a little mod that would make the cursor follow the primary bugged contact, like the real jet does, would be nice to have that function again

I have no idea why someone would get so emotional in their free-time-policing of the desires of others.

FC3 aircraft clearly have lower than lowest priority, F-15 also has many years old issues

Well I can appreciate the devil's advocate position but to play the angel's advocate...the manual literally tells pilots to pull 10gs at almost extremely heavy weights to save the airplane. If it would break at 9gs lightly loaded that instruction wouldn't be there. And I always do my best to not roll and pull at the same time for just that reason (are rolling Gs modeled in DCS?) Bear in mind this is McDonnell who built this bird and gave these instructions, the same people who gave us the Phantom over Vietnam. At the point of the F-15 perhaps the industry leader with regard to determining fighter jet maneuvering restrictions

honestly who knows

Manual page posted says 54000lbs, 10g's to wing rock. Wings were broken at ~9.2g on a clean low-fuel airplane (~33,000LB)

I haven't tested it explicitly, but I have broken the wings at only slightly more than 9g. I think the wings are slightly weaker than they should be. Per an older manual: Dive Recovery - Emergency Pull-Out Gross Weights of 50,000 to 54,000 Pounds At airspeeds below 350 KCAS....full aft stick or 10g's to wing rock At airspeeds between 350 and 500 KCAS....full aft stick of 10g's to wing rock For a 60,000 pound aircraft...the maximum load factor is 8.7g's below 500kcas "Full aft stick or 10g's to wing rock"

boy isn't that the mark of a great product and developer

I wonder if this bug is related to the fact that the ground crew will not refuel external tanks at all

this is all a psy-op, right? they never planned to fix this?

the gratification will have been anything but instant my friend

I meant test against these it seems someone has already provided exhaustive list

yes perhaps we need to include an f-16 and a mig-29 to show how the system works with every other aircraft

ok I think we are supposed to tag @BIGNEWY for this kind of thing

have you tried trimming rudder instead or is it the same issue

currently in DCS at no range can the F-15 identify an F-18 (in my experience). I believe also the Hind evades NCTR from F-15. I have not checked against every module but these two would be a good place to start investigating this problem. F-15 seems to be able to identify most aircraft from more than 20 miles otherwise

Could it be an obvious datalink signal?

The smoking gun for me is this: in the most recent -1 manual we have for the F-15, it is cleared for an emergency pull-out of 10g at a very high weight (~55k lb IIRC). The Eagle should not break catastrophically at 9G at low weight I cannot post it here due to forum rules but it is not hard to find. in fact ED hosts the file "App B Perf Data F100-PW-220"

afaik you can refuel with the engines running, just not rearm. so a trick is to shut off the engines and only rearm, THEN fire up engines and begin long process of refuel

well, haven't stirred the pot in a while