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F-15EX Eagle II

626 Gryphus322  3 months ago

F-15EX Eagle II

The Greatest Fighter made even greater...

-Description-

The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. The aircraft resulted from the U.S. Department of Defense's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (OSD CAPE) study in 2018 to recapitalize the aging F-15C/D fleet due to inadequate numbers of F-22s, delays in the F-35 program, and maintaining diversity in the U.S. fighter industrial base through Boeing's St. Louis division (former McDonnell Douglas). The F-15EX is expected to replace the F-15C/D in performing homeland and air defense missions and also serve as an affordable platform for employing large stand-off weapons to augment the frontline F-22 and F-35. The aircraft was first delivered in...Continue here.


-Loadouts-

Current Loadout- Air Superiority, Extended Range, Missile Truck - 1x M61A1 Vulcan, 1x Drop Tank, 2x AIM-9X, 17x AIM-120D, 1x M61A1 Vulcan, 1x AN/AAQ-13 Navigation Pod

Alt. Loadouts coming soon (still too busy with life but you can expect an air superiority loadout without the CFT's and a strike loadout with a metric-ton of JDAM's to match the loadout with the metric-ton of AMRAAM's.)


-Controls-

Normal [Throttle]/[Pitch]/[Roll]/[Yaw]/[LandingGear]
- [Throttle = 85% to 90%] Military Power
- [Throttle = 90% to 100%] Afterburner
[VTOL] Elevator Trim (Inverted)
[Trim = 0%] Auto Flaps, [Trim = 0% to +100%] Flaps Up Override
[FireGuns] Fire 1x 20mm M61A1 Vulcan
[AG1] Lights
[AG8] Master Arm
Hardpoint Activation Groups
[AG2] Wing Hardpoint 1A/B AIM-120D Manual Release
[AG3] Wing Hardpoint 2A/B AIM-120D Manual Release
[AG4] Wing Hardpoint 3A AIM-120D Manual Release
[AG5] Wing Hardpoint 3B AIM-9X Manual Release
[AG6] CFT Hardpoint 5A/B AIM-120D Manual Release
[AG7] Fuselage Center Hardpoint Drop Tank Release

Cameras
[Cam1] Targeting Pod View (On loadouts with Targeting Pod)


-Author’s Notes-

  • Gun ammo is unlimited.
  • On takeoff, I recommend 75% trim. Get to around 320 km/h and use slight pitch inputs. She's a heavy girl.
  • The aircraft is armed with AIM-120D's, based on the AIM-120C's from ReinMcdeer's Weapon Balance Database 1.3, but with 50% more range (from 20km to 30km) just like the improvements on the real AIM-120D's.

-Credits-

  • @OkaNieba - for the original two-seat Eagle I modified to create the predecessor of this aircraft (I literally just ripped off the canards.)
  • @ReinMcdeer - for the original F-15C from which the two-seat F-15 was derived.

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 42.9ft (13.1m)
  • Length 63.8ft (19.4m)
  • Height 18.8ft (5.7m)
  • Empty Weight 31,739lbs (14,396kg)
  • Loaded Weight 53,136lbs (24,102kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 1.111
  • Wing Loading 50.4lbs/ft2 (246.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,053.5ft2 (97.9m2)
  • Drag Points 2543

Parts

  • Number of Parts 455
  • Control Surfaces 10
  • Performance Cost 1,979