Is it the GOAT fighter?
>>65366286I'm sure that goes to one of the WW2 prop planes. F-15 is awesome but its win record is like 95% MiG-21 bullying and those things stopped being a real threat once radar guided missiles moved past the teething stages. Also, that they were being flown by Arabs basically makes them the free space on the Bingo card.
>>65366286A single F/A-18 managed to shoot down 3 of these in a single sortie.The Hornet is clearly the superior aircraft.
>>65366286>>65366289>>65366307Reminder
>>65366289>Also, that they were being flown by Arabs basically makes them the free space on the Bingo card.always love this cope
>>65366286The F35 is the GOAT, but we won't find this out until the big one kicks off in a few years
>>65366286It will probably remain so, as with Russia and China and the USA collapsing we're rapidly approaching the real end of history.
>>65366289>flown by ArabsWhat about that one time they were flown by ziggers and performed even worse
>>65366311>Literally says right there that they were primarily ground attack MiG-21s and 23s>Actually sincerely believing Israeli kill claimsF-15 glazers are some of the most retarded people on this site, I swear to God.
>>65366428Muh ground attack air interceptoors cope.Was the SuckHui-35 also ground attack ?
>>65366286It was about 20 years ahead if its time.
>>65366313>Egyptian officer struggling to hold it in while the Soviets are watchinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkuNpgACH0
>>65366428Well those Syrian aircraft didn't fall out of the sky on their fucking own.
>>65366428at the time those were the best the soviet union had and notice it's also 30 air defense batteries
>>65366286you know it is what kind of question is that? You can't even kill the eagle, make it stronger, make its wings broader, make its dick girthier.
we ain't even fucking done yet
>>65366666not today, Satan
>>65366286needs ERA to be the goat sir
>>65366434>>65366656Okay cool reddit-kun, ignoring the fact that you're trusting Israeli kill counts, what technical aspect of the Eagle make it an exceptional A2A fighter distinct from the rest of the aircraft in America's inventory?
>>65366286Its pretty good at bombing illiterate goat fuckers and their loved ones.
>>65367426every time you thirdies make an accusation it turns out to be a confession >what makes a dedicated air superiority fighter exceptional in A2A >especially in the 80s
>>65367588I'm not seeing you post technical aspects of the F-15 that make it a superior fighter, Anon. If it was truly so much better you must have more to post other than Redditjak maymays.
>>65367597do you think belong in /k/ if you don't know what made it better than the F-4 for air combat?the thrust to weight ratio? its maneuverability and considerably smaller energy bleed while doing so? its one circle two circle performance? its considerably better radar? its great visibility? its ability to withstand huge amounts of damage? its ability to radar slave missiles? its range on internal fuel? its high AoA handling? and on and on >Redditjakam i talking to a bot? your llms vision encoder is shit
>>65367683>Maneuverability when all it does is shoot BVR missiles>Capabilities F-16s, F-14s, and F-18s haveI'm in awe.
>>65367714another vision encoder miss?operation mole crickett was in the 80sthe aim-120 was introduced only in the 90s
>>65366836Konichiwa dude.
>>65366286Yes. The Eagle is undefeated. Mudhen not so much, but they're different platforms with different missions.
>>65366289Arab pilots are more skilled than Russian and Chinese ones, though?
>>65367798from all given accounts, the Arab pilots have been good. Syrian and Iraqi pilots were better than average. Chinese and Soviet pilots were a mixed bag.
>>65367727IAF's fighters were equipped with AIM-7 Sparrows during Mole Cricket, though.
>>65366286you don't need an f-15 to fight goats anon. you're just being silly.
>>65366437We never got the B-1R in this timeline, though.
>>65368453SARH missiles were much riskier to use than modern ARH missiles, however. You had to keep your nose pointed at the target the whole time, and it was common for a BVR launch to get within WVR before the missile hit. Even in Desert Storm, the Sparrow's greatest hour, most of its hits were visible to the launching pilots.
There are going to be F15s in space.F15s with lazor cannons. Ligthspeed drives. F15s patrolling the kuiper belt to keep the filthy Ayys away. F15s at Alpha Centauri.F15 is eternal.
>>65368873>B-1RIt was probably for the best. It was just to expensive and vulnerable for its mission profile.
F35 a shit
>>65366311>2 F-15 damaged This would be a decisive brownoid victory according to /pol/
>>65366666
>>65366428>ground attack MiG-21sfunny that there have been no mass produced ground attack mig-21 variants ever, given the obvious 500kg payload it had.ditto for the mig-23, the actual ground attack ones were called mig-27 and no third world country ever bought mig-23 for ground attack.the only way they were ground attack is by crashing into the ground once they ate a sparrow/sidewinder.
>>65366286Gripen is the GOAT fighter for [spoiler]accountants[/spoiler]
>>65369975Hehe [spoiler] accountants [/spoiler]
>>65366286The f-14 was better in every way until the 1990's. Even the F/A-18 as a medium weight fighter was much more advanced and capable, minus range, if you ignore the navy's ability to get tankers in position.
F-16 Flying Falcon sounds better than Viper
>>65369977Reporting
Too bad we will know how good a fighter the YF-17 could have tuned into.
>>65370128The F-14's onboard computer system was this weird electro-mechanical Frankensteinian mess that was outmoded almost immediately by simpler and more efficient avionics, but it was intertwined so deeply with the aircraft that they couldn't replace the bastard for ages. Never mind the general maintenance troubles from the damn variable geometry or the shitass engines on the A model.
>>65370278Despite that, it was the F-22 of its day
>>65370291Yeah it was so amazing that they fucking retired the thing entirely while the F-15 is still having new airframes manufactured.
>>65370375The f-15 had the benefit of being exported to other countries as well as the air force taking way too long to replace it. Manufacturing cost and parts availability is a tremendous advantage. Not sure why you're being such a passive aggressive bitch about it though.
>try to scare Americans with your spooky new superjet>it's actually just a mid-tier interceptor>it works and American panic>Americans throw their infinite budget and logistics into creating the greatest fighter jet the world had ever seen, decades ahead of it's timeOne of the most classic military blunders, just like assuming the Persians would run out of arrows, is assuming the Americans will run out of money
>>65370291The F-15 is still the F-22 of its day.
>>65370444That doesn't make sense. It's just a missile carrier. Doesn't do anything else. Carries the same missiles as everything else and has no special tricks. That makes it the F4 phantom of its day.
>>65370453The F-15EX has most of the avionics the F-35 has but not the MADL or the distributed aperture system
>>65366286Not a pound for air to ground. I fucking love the F-15. The Air National Guard base in town just got F35s to replace their F15 and they're fucking souless in comparison.
>>65370444 I disagree. The F-14 was the F-22 pf it's day. The 15 was pretty good tho.
>>65370453It is 500 times better at dog fighting than the Phantom.
>>65369514I am from Argentina and desu having being bombed by the Vulcan feels much better than what would have been being bombed by some ugly B52
>>65370453The F-14 was literally built to carry big fuckoff Phoenix missiles and not much else.
>>65373271It was built to dogfight with the best of them, had the best radar and could be a mini awacs. Thats a lot more than a missile carrier
