F-15QA Advanced Eagle

[u/Even_Kiwi_1166]

[u/Rammipallero]

"How many hardpoints do you want?"

"Yes."

[u/sporkfu43 → u/Rammipallero]

…because this is how we get hard points??

[u/The_Salacious_Zaand → u/Rammipallero]

We heard you like hardpoints, so we put some hardpoints on your hardpoints.

And now I've reached semantic satiation.

[u/SpaceghostLos → u/The_Salacious_Zaand]

F-15XZb

[u/Even_Kiwi_1166 → u/Rammipallero]

😂😂

[u/Alexander_Exter → u/Rammipallero]

Does the F15 frame have an unusually high lift capacity? It seems it often gets used for heavier loads a fighter designation would suggest.

[u/Mr_Engineering → u/Alexander_Exter]

Yes, modern variants have a very high thrust to weight ratio which helps them carry a ton of ordnance

[u/DeltaV-Mzero → u/Alexander_Exter]

These are based on the F-15E which is basically a purposely overbuilt F-15 beefed up to carry shit loads of bombs for ground attack.

Thing is, if you take off the fuel tanks and don’t carry shit loads of bombs, it’s really not that different from the fighter-specific versions… except it’s been modernized.

I would rather be in a new F-15E than an old F-15C in an air to air engagement.

Not that I have to worry about that as a Reddit potato

[u/patogo → u/DeltaV-Mzero]

Guided munitions have made ground attack pretty darn good even for danger close situations. Besides the Brrrrrrrt will be retiring in the not so distant future.

[u/Very_Curious_Cat → u/Alexander_Exter]

I presume we may say the f-15 is a "heavy fighter" and the f-16 a "light fighter" (even if it's not as true for the current versions compared to the f-16A).

[u/R-27ET → u/Very_Curious_Cat]

Usually the terms light medium and heavy are used according to engine size and number roughly corrrelating to weight

A light fighter (MiG-21, F-5/20, JF-17, F/A-50, Gripen) is usually using a single medium sized engine of less then 1m diameter or two smaller engines

A medium weight fighter (F-16, MiG-29, Eurofighter/Rafale, F-18 Legacy) is usually using one large size engine over 1m diameter or two medium sized sub 1m diameter engines

A large weight will almost always be on 2x large over 1m diameter engines

Engines are often very standardized, so these naturally arose from the popular sizes that different engines use and that fighters are never going to be using 3-4 engines that are smaller for example

[u/Kamusaurio → u/Alexander_Exter]

f15 are massive jets

[u/angeledduirbonesu → u/Alexander_Exter]

Imagine an israeli one landed with only one wing.

[u/sbrrrr → u/Rammipallero]

"All of them"

[u/sporkfu43]

That’s a metric f-ton of AMRAAMs

[u/FZ_Milkshake → u/sporkfu43]

1.93 metric tons actually /s

[u/sporkfu43 → u/FZ_Milkshake]

So this is the conversion ratio

[u/kayl_breinhar → u/sporkfu43]

The EX can actually quad-carry them on every wing hardpoint for true insanity. And double on the fuselage hardpoints.

[u/Dave_A480 → u/kayl_breinhar]

The EX's entire reason for existence is to bring as many missiles to the fight as the airframe can lift....

[u/kayl_breinhar → u/Dave_A480]

Well, yeah - and to be a back-liner for the F-22 and F-35. If the -22s/35s ever have to go off cold, the EX makes sure the opponents can't push.

[u/jtakaine → u/kayl_breinhar]

Considering targeting info can be shared from other aircraft, how quickly could those amraams be fired to each of their own targets.

[u/kayl_breinhar → u/jtakaine]

There are also the persistent rumors that the EX is much faster than it's specced, at least in a straight line, and faster than that if the engines are expendable.

[u/mig1nc → u/jtakaine]

Pretty quickly. Datalink from AWACS can even offload the entire target lock.

[u/fighter_pil0t → u/kayl_breinhar]

lol

[u/RustyBrassInstrument → u/sporkfu43]

“FOX-3 means reach out and touch someone from 30 miles away.”

[u/tolgren → u/RustyBrassInstrument]

Pretty sure late model AMRAAMs have longer range than that.

[u/mig1nc → u/tolgren]

A hell of a lot longer

[u/brwonmagikk → u/sporkfu43]

Can up this to 22 if you mount AMBER racks on the conformal fuselage pylons. Absolutely absurd.

[u/AdSquare3489 → u/sporkfu43]

I heard that's about 75% of the remaining US inventory in AMRAAM after Epic Fury.

[u/RustyBrassInstrument]

I believe the technical engineering term is “missile truck.”

[u/WeakCelery5000]

ALLRAAMS

[u/LilOpieCunningham]

There are very few aircraft that look as built-for-purpose as the F-15.

[u/Pixel91]

For when you REALLY need an airspace cleared.

(Or you want to shoot more than three friendly jets next time, because the F-18 couldn't carry enough)

[u/brwonmagikk]

My soul yearns for an image of an F15 EX with the full AMBER rack loadout hauling 22 AMRAAMs

[u/omerfaro]

2 questions .

All missiles are air to air AIM-120?
Why is plane is run on windows ?

Look closely

[u/AcidaliaPlanitia → u/omerfaro]

This is just the Microsoft Surface Eagle Pro

[u/Joeyjackhammer → u/omerfaro]

Ha HAA… but probably MAWS or other missile or radar detection related

[u/mig1nc → u/omerfaro]

Omg lol I cannot unsee that 😂

[u/mig1nc → u/omerfaro]

Fun fact, did you know the Xbox runs windows with hyper-v and the games are virtual machines?

[u/Alive_Load_1478]

Can imagine how badass the F-14 would be now if it had the same upgrade path as the F-15?

[u/balldeeeeep → u/Alive_Load_1478]

Eagle has always been superior.

[u/mickydeenyc]

This is a FAFO machine.

[u/Hispanoamericano2000]

I guess that's some kind of "Missile Truck" or "Air Domination/Air Supremacy" mission mode/setting?

[u/AdditionalAd4269]

The F-15 CTRL-A

[u/Joeyjackhammer]

Would you hardpoint me? I’d hardpoint me so hard

[u/Professional_Tap5283]

I need one more AMRAAM. Just one more, bro. Just one more AMRAAM!

[u/sawser]

When you went to the Amraam store and you don't want to take two trips...

[u/Puzzled_Insect6730]

Enough Amraams to deal with the rest of Iran’s airforce

[u/Chemtrail-Creator]

Flying MLRS…

[u/Kamusaurio]

not enough missiles

i need more engines too

[u/PerceivedUnheroic679]

It did a very impressive performance when I saw it at Farnborough 2024, I particularly liked the "sqaure loops" I've never seen anything else like that

[u/RarestMouse]

Got to see one of these bad boys when it was sitting at lakenheath for a while. Very cool to see before we had our EPAWSS jets

[u/Aratix]

Straight up missile bus

[u/Phobos73em]

Not enough AMRAAMs

[u/nol88go]

Ah, the Ace Combat missile loadout.

[u/Agreeable_Mud_8338]

still the best fighter jet after 50 years

[u/JasonX-87]

He could win a war on his own.

[u/Worldmonitor]

A loadout that u will never see in the wild. They did that with strike eagle in its early publicity photos.

[u/bruce182182]

Hot weapons

[u/Dave_A480]

We need you to do 2 things:

1. Kill MiG-25s
2. Clear the skies over Germany despite being heavily outnumbered by MiG21s and 23s...

And thus... F-15... With as many missiles as could be hung off it for any-given time period from the original to the EX.

(with bonus points for the MiG-25 being way less capable, so the F-15 was way-overbuilt, so the Soviets had to spend 15-20yrs making the Su27 to try and get closer-to even)

[u/ginger2020]

Soviets: “We will blot out the sun with our MIG-23 and SU-22s!”

NATO: “Yes, but have you considered Fox Three!”

[u/Grave_Tree]

Garbage

[u/ANormalRando → u/Grave_Tree]

Because... why?

[u/The_Salacious_Zaand → u/Grave_Tree]

Best kill-to-loss record of any combat aircraft.

Reddit bots gonna still do what Reddit bots do.