Although its not a ground attack aircraft the F-15C is able to drop bombs!

[MrIch]

is that possible in Lockon too?

[Caretaker]

Nope, it's not possible. The F-15C was developed with only AA in mind, basic AG capability was added later on (most planes can be used to drop unguided bombs after all). However the US Air Force does has never used it in that role, and doesn't train pilots in that role either. Some reports even say the respective software has been removed from the planes.

 

This is probably different for other air forces that use the F-15C (like Israel or Saudi Arabia), but even those would probably only use their Eagles in that role in a desperate situation these days, as they have more specialized planes for AG attacks.

[SUBS17]

Yep, it needs the right software to work. I've heard that it was tried out in the US and also Israel.

[Pilotasso]

I believe I read somewhere that japanese F-15's still retain iron bomb capability, US had removed nuclear bomb support on them (because most US aircraft can deply nuclear bombs).

 

The japanese I believe have a good reason for that. They are to retire the F-4 and after that they are left without any real long range fighters except the F-15.

[Omega Oska]

To hijack this thread.....how about Su-27, can they drop bombs in 1.1?

If you check its weapon control panel, it does have some swiches related to dropping bombs. Is it made useless like the F-15C?

[britgliderpilot]

To hijack this thread.....how about Su-27, can they drop bombs in 1.1?

If you check its weapon control panel, it does have some swiches related to dropping bombs. Is it made useless like the F-15C?

 

Yep, Su27 can drop iron bombs in v1.1. Should be fun :)

 

 

They've reworked the A2G symbology a bit, too . . . . hoping we get better bomb modelling eventually. True CEP stuff and so forth.

[Joe]

hoping we get better bomb modelling eventually. True CEP stuff and so forth.

The 1.1 readme says CEP is now modeled...

[D-Scythe]

Apparently, F-15Cs are planned to get JDAM in the near future. Heard it from both a guy that works with Eagles and Steve Davies. Personally, I think its a mistake, but it should be interesting.

[Starlight]

is that possible in Lockon too?

 

Yes, it is possible, but only for AI-controlled aircraft. BTW, every AI-controlled aircraft can drop bombs (at least it was so for LockOn 1.02). You can't drop bombs with the F-15 if you are flying it. You can only if the AI is flying it.

 

You must add the A2G weapons to the aircraft (edit meinit.xml or use any utility) you must add the payload and the appropriate roles (Ground Attack). Then you can setup a bomb run with your AI aircraft. I had even an IL-76 dropping two iron bombs with 100% accuracy. At least in 1.02 ground attack isn't really well-modelled, at least for AI aircraft.

 

That was why I was asking to get the F-15E as a non-flyable aircraft. The AI aircraft have real loose requirements as they are superficially modelled as far as the avionics are concerned. For example the Tornado is included in the game, but no AG radar is implented, let alone the complex TF radar that it uses for ultra-low penetrations. In Lomac, AI aircraft behave quite all the same way, it seems like their performance are based on parameters fed to a generic FM. For example at low level, the Eagle and the Tornado have the same kind of ride. Ask their pilots, and you'll know that's not true. Wing loading and gust effects seem not to be modelled here. That's why I'm asking to add more non-flyables, as soon as we have a good 3D model and a good skin.

But I'm goin' far from the initial scope of this thread.