He probably meant narrowing his scan to revisit a certain piece of sky more often, possibly even changing the pulse repetition frequency emanating from the radar.

Those nozzle blades are called divergent nozzle segments, and inside are convergent nozzle segments, as for the pilot telling you about the F15C with the Aesa radar trying to find an F22s....I doubt a pilot would discuss anything about the capability of the Apg63v3 radar...either he/she is just giving you something to hear...or they are violating Opsec.....I've worked the Eagle a long time.. and I knew some things about what it can do but others are a need to know basis.

@@stephenszabo2361 All he said was even when he cheated, he couldn't detect the F-22. He never specified what "cheated" means. My dad worked on the F-15 CTF at Edwards on primarily the F-15E, and would only say that even the first major upgrade to APG-63 on the C model would have justified a new designation for the radar with a later number variant, but since they were so tightly controlled with F-15 radar capabilities, they left it at APG-63, possibly for deception purposes. The F-14 was touted all those years as having such a great radar, but it was really the F-15 that had the A2A radar to beat.

@@LRRPFco52 You are absolutely right with the APG-63. Declassified documents show that APG-63 of USAF already in 1984 had LPI capability, NCTR capability, multi track/engagement capability to name only some. The last being not completely usable at the time due to AIM-120 being behind schedule. As you say deception is stilll important. I think APG-63(V)3 can certainly detect F-22 at some range, but pilots cannot talk about this due to OPSEC.

So true.

Kind of you to say, thanks. And we will!

Thanks but you gotta wait!

Should be noted that the majority of USAF F-15 kills in Desert Storm, came from the 33rd TFW, out of Eglin AFB, FL.

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Thanks, Robert.

You're welcome, John.

The F-15 has a hybrid flight control system

it is, there was a test-bed called F-15 ACTIVE

Thanks! Believe some of my stories have come out at various times on other episodes, such as the aircraft carrier series back in Spring 2018.

We're going to try that on the episode following the Strike Eagle.

Good to know--haven't seen that movie in so long I don't remember that part!

We hope to someday feature those aircraft.

IIRC the F-15 stick is calibrated to fixed g at fixed hand pressure. 3.75 lb/g or so, which makes the muscle memory a little easier as long as you can apply consistent force.

He did not mean in the sense of helping the actual infantry on the ground but rather how an infantryman's job is hand-to-hand combat with other soldiers. That is the Eagle's job also, only in an air sense with other fighters.

@@FighterPilotPodcast Thanks! Got it.

Not at present but you never know.

I asked BS he says it's similar to the F/A-18, which is 25 knots due to parachute landing concerns in the event of ejection.

@@FighterPilotPodcast thank you sir

True. Check this out: www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/musing/how-to-present-like-a-topgun-instructor/

Hey Vincent, thank you for the link! I've picked that line from your audio episode, but it's even better in transcript!

@@gregory.chalenko Sure thing. 😎

That's why we posted it early!

The Fighter Pilot Podcast thank you for helping to keep up morale, with everything canceled because of the virus, this was a much appreciated break from all the bad things happening

True.

The ASAT live-test was done with a modified A-model and that happened in the mid-1980s. They were going to modify more A-models, establish a squadron for the ASAT mission, but it never happened. There were rumors they were going to similarly mod an F-14 but it never happened and I think that was just a rumor. The Soviets may have pressured the US government to stall the program, or (more likely) the US military felt the program wasn't needed and they could accomplish the same thing with robotics or an SDI offshoot program which has been done. They've destroyed satellites in orbit with high-speed "pebbles." They talked about reviving a launch system using F-15E-models since they're newer and have more powerful engines than the interceptor-dogfight models of the F-15 (A/C). They were going to launch mini-satellites for the military from an F-15E at altitude, probably above 45,000 ft, maybe as close to 60,000ft as possible depending on what the altitude of the F-15E is with a rocket load because you can't fly anywhere near the F-15's ultimate ceiling (110,000ft) with a normal combat load, let alone a rocket! It's been a while since they've talked about doing rocket launches from E-models so the program may have been stalled or canceled.

Josh Faigel absolutely!

Perhaps--didn't see it.

Hoping to, perhaps in 2021...

DIYGary here, here! Glad to have you with us!

It was hydraulic fluid but I never learned the exact cause. They fixed it and left.

Read it, even quoted it in my retirement speech.

@@FighterPilotPodcast I've heard 2 main arguments regarding Boyd: A. He was a profane genius who forever changed WVR air combat and helped develop 2 of the teen fighters against the will of the Pentagon. B. He was a charlatan self-promoter who is given more credit than due, and had divergent ideas from what we really needed in a fighter. We often hear Pierre Sprey talk about how Boyd's opinion was that the Air Force ruined the F-15 by packing it with electronic garbage and all the bells and whistles, reducing its performance, which caused Boyd and crew to start a little internal revolt with the Lightweight Fighter. From the results of the F-15's combat service, one has to accept that the highly-trained Eagle mafia leveraged its "complex garbage" to set record air dominance over all its adversaries, both in BVR and WVR. Pilots who transitioned from other fighters, including foreign exchange pilots, have said the APG-63 was a game-changer for SA, especially working in a 4-ship. One British fighter pilot said it was basically an unfair fight due to the ability to see first, and he felt invincible in the F-15C as a result.

@@LRRPFco52 I think you mean "profound" genius. Let me tell you something about Sprey. He never designed ANYTHING. NOTHING. Not even a fucking PAPER airplane was he involved in the design of. He had NO input into ANY designs, ever, period, the end. What he DID do was analyze low level statistics at the Pentagon, where he befriended Col. Boyd and others. He was always viewed upon as a "hanger on" and not particularly brilliant or insightful in any way. He never flew anything, ever, and never served in the military. He knows exactly jack-shit about combat. Boyd was not against putting *necessary* equipment into aircraft. He was against putting *bullshit* into the aircraft that wasn't directly related to the mission of the aircraft. If it wasn't designed to shoot down an aircraft or keep it from being shot down, it should be carefully evaluated before just slapping it on the jet. That second point you mention, item B, that's Sprey. Boyd got a lot of attention, and went around crowing about stuff at the Pentagon, sure, but he was always well respected and his opinion *mattered*. Sprey, not so much. It wasn't until after Boyd and the guys were dead that Sprey began telling other people all this horse-shit about him designing this and that and thus and so. btw, we had the APG-65 in the Hornet, and it is/was a great radar set. They updated it to the APG-73 if I recall correctly, and it's even better. Those definitely give you good SA, and working with (at the time) TADIL and not Link-16 networking, you get a great view of the battlespace from the air. That is critical to keeping you alive while prosecuting targets.

steeeve not a chance!

Geez, Ronny, why so bossy? 😜

Esp the B's and D's with the GE engines. On station loiter was improved by 60% with the GE-110 engines over the P&W P30. No a/b cat shots with the B/Ds, Military power on both GE's is equal to the thrust of TF-30 at zone-3 a/b. When the fleet got the Digital Flight Control System in mid 2000, the F-14 became a much better aircraft to fly and operate slow around the carrier. Marconi is a UK based electronics company who built the Marconi DFCS for the F14. The system was tested by a test pilot future astronaut Mark or Scott Kelly, I always confuse(their twins) them, actually bent the test Tomcat which required the NATOPS to be revisited for max rolling G limits. The new EX will be awesome, stronger strike Eagle airframe loaded with air superiority avionics. I just saw a CF-18 overfly yesterday. That jet would be a F/A-18 of early 80's vintage, similar/same to the jets you tranistioned to. Our fleet of 132 CF-18s are based off the marine version of the F/A-18 A/B. We just received 18 more A's from Australia Canada should buy a fleet of F-15EX's. CF-15's anyone.

Too bad it is most likely a hoax

Manuel Greil The Typhoon is very unfairly underrated by some people. The Typhoon pilots don’t care though, they know what it can do.

LMFAO, you don't really believe the Eurofighter is the best dogfighter in the world right?? The F-15 Eagle is far superior and is the best dogfighter on the planet, kiddo.

Hi Allen, thanks for the constructive criticism. I knew next to nothing about the incident, other than that it happened. I think you can appreciate Spidey's predicament of wanting to share the facts without representing an official military position.