Thanks, MrShado, will do!

Rich Concepcion old school!!

I loved that sim as a kid.

I'm in the Jane's F-15 Club, too, Guys!

​@@manuelgreil4306 386... Specifically the Intel 80386. Took over from the 80286. That, was after the 8088 and 8086.

I still play Jane's F15E

I loved the F-16XL. That airframe would have been far superior for the USAF F-16 mission profiles and never need EFTs, while carrying a lot of ordnance in a more efficient manner. At the time, it didn't have the power to carry the weapons load like the F-15 did. I'm not sure what its turn rates were compared to the regular Viper, but it had better combat radius and payload, which are what the USAF really cares about more anyway.

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I beg you Razbam pls pls pls f15e

that's how you know that their module is gonna be good

Get after it!

Thanks for what you do!

I like the Lisa Tronic 2000.

Just wait till we have realistic sex bots

ARIXANDRE bold statement!

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After the F-14 😁

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FASTpacks are used by all USAF F-15E, as mentioned in the interview at 32:10.

The initial FAST Pack concept never materialized beyond CFTs. There were plans for buddy-tankers, internal weapons, and reconnaissance pods that never saw the light of day. F-15C squadrons out of Iceland actually flew with CFTs regularly since they had to cover a lot of water over the Atlantic. They hung AIM-7Fs and Ms off of them IIRC, even as early as 1980.

@@LRRPFco52 at 34:40 TAC said that two bags of tanks are less draggier than CFTs. Is taht the reason why F-15Cs dont usually cary FAST packs?

@@Anderson_Hwang You can't jettison CFTs and the CFTs provide 12 additional weapons stations for the Mudhen. Because of area ruling, the CFTs limit some of the supersonic weapons employment and BVR evasive tactics that are the Grey Eagle's bread and butter as well. It's more difficult to accelerate through Mach with CFTs.

@@LRRPFco52 Thanks for the answer Btw, are the pylons on the CFTs removable? Cuz in every Strike Eagle photo, theres always pylons attached to the CFT even if they're not carrying any ordnance

For sure.

It's true. A-10 can't get to the fight fast enough, especially emergency CAS or last-minute changes to the calls, but there are a lot of platforms available for CAS at any given time, including MQ-9 Reapers, which are another heavy-lifter in the CAS mix.

You know what they say, "never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

Lack of targetting pods and precision weapons are the main reasons why Warthogs didnt participate as much as Strike Eagles in Afghanistan Especially in the early 2000s where most of the missions are conducted by JSOC and SOCOM during nightime, F-15E’s LANTIRN pod make them much better for CAS during nightime. After A-10s have upgraded to the C version, that’s when they start kicking Taliban’s butts real hard

@@Anderson_Hwang A-10C is best, most capable A-10. It could really use more powerful motors like the Su-25 has to up its time-to-TGT rates, climb rate, and minimum take-off distance with stores. The helmet-slaved Sniper or Litening pod, night-capable, data-linked Warthog with SDBs and GBU-12s is a different airplane.

As an Infantryman, would prefer A-10C, but will take what we can get. Even had a B-1 do CAS for us in Afghanistan.

Cool. Welcome, Andrew.

You're welcome. 🤩

Thanks, B_C!

The Fighter Pilot Podcast haha no problem

You're welcome, Rob. That's the hope.

It's the little things, ya know? 😎

Thanks, Eric. 👍

Thanks, John.

Thanks. 😎

Only recently became aware of it--may have to check it out!

It's a F-15K then huh

You can here! www.patreon.com/ftrpltpdcst

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Good to know. 👍

Let's hope someone in Tinseltown takes note!

@@FighterPilotPodcast well I believe with DCS and CGI if we have some sponsors to do a movie. Why not....

(Probably the pilot of that helicopter that got bombed.)

Talk about improvise adapt and over come hey lol thank you for your service sir. Keep up the honest accurate work. Peace....somewhere

Yes.

Not yet. This is as close as we've come to that: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ep2hnrOQ3KyUk6s.html

Seahorse enjoy!

Air Force 1 the Strike Eagle is a multi-role fighter, and one of those roles is Close Air Support, which is the primary mission of the A-10. So that’s where the overlap is, and why they’d say similar things. The Hornet and Viper pilots would probably the same thing since they both perform CAS as well.

We released the episode early on KZfaq. It will be out as scheduled on March 23rd.

I do indeed!

Wasn't Dirk Benedict also the actor who played Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica?

Everyone is, of course, entitled to their opinion.

I'm sure they have somewhere, but I'm not familiar with the results.

They specifically have done several tactical exploitation exercises generally associated with Red Flag or in the Nevada Test Range areas with the F-15E vs F-22 and F-35, since the F-15E has advanced FLIR that can be used to attempt to detect airborne targets. From my understanding, the IR signature reduction is so superb on the F-22 and F-35, and F-22 and F-35 sensors are so omniscient, that they are watching anybody from way out anyway, while the F-15E is still a target throughout these scenarioss. The Strike Eagle folks that have done it can't share details of course, but their general response is that they would have been dead long before they knew anyone was out there every time. The DAS and EOTS on the F-35 is pretty game-changing, especially since it's fused with the AESA and about 2 dozen RF antennae distributed throughout the F-35's skin. One of the main concerns has been threat IR system detection ranges, so they're always gaming that angle as A2A IRST sensors evolve. Most of the discussions I've seen promoting threat IRST or competitor IRST systems assume a standard 4th Gen fighter IR signature, not taking into account the extensive and impressive IR sig reduction measures incorporated in 5th Gen fighters. If you ignore the RF reduction for a bit and start to look closely at the Raptor and JSF, they spent about as much effort in that department as well, with full systems integration dealing with that spectrum. The exhaust on both fighters is covered by a very high volume stream of cold air, for starters. The F-35 has heat exchangers built into the initial fan stages of the F135 motor as well, and some pretty ingenious things have been done with cooling, heat mitigation, and thermal signature management that I overlooked for years.

@@LRRPFco52 Cool! T.Y. I like that we have operational awareness from a distance in F22 and F35. I remember when the Russian 'Meatball' IR sensor first showed up on their fighters. That thing must have ruffled some feathers...

@@bartofilms We had IRSTs, TISEOs, and TCS on several fighters dating way back, including the F-101B Voodoo, F-106A (retractable), and the F-4C/D/E. F-4C/D had TISEO under the radome, whereas they put one on the port wing leading edge just above the stores pylon on the F-4E since the M61 Vulcan took the space away from the chin-mounted TISEO. Many F-14As got the TCS, but not all. Most/all of these were radar-slaved so you could get a visual ID from longer range once the TGT came down the radar scope to within a certain distance. F-15A pilots who converted from the F-4E started mounting rifle scopes to the sides of their HUDs, and bore-sighted the rifle scopes on the ground using the boresight symbol in the HUD to zero the scope to, so they would have a reference point for scanning the sky in that area after clinging the Target Designate box with the boresight cross. When the IRST showed up on the MiG-29, it was reminiscent mostly of the 1950s/1960s F-101 and F-106 arrangement on top of the nose just in front of the wind screen. The F-15's APG-63 had some game-changing PID capabilities already in the 1970s that are still tightly-guarded, and it was only upgraded and made more capable over the years. The latest AESA version of the APG-63 is an entirely different animal. F-22 and F-35 have things in another generation ahead of that.

@@bartofilms Same thing for the Helmet-Mounted Sight. That started as a US Navy F-4B Visual Target Acquisition System (VTAS) and AIM-9G Sidewinder Expanded Acquisition Mode (SEAM) in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Russians take credit for it, even though they copied the Honeywell VTAS avionics components down to the shape of the box that was meant to fit inside the F-4B's avionics bay.

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Email the show and I'll connect you with him.

@@FighterPilotPodcast wow thanks so much for the rapid response. Email sent!

@@NickYoung22 received. Will respond soonest.

The episode aired early here on KZfaq. You should see it on all podcast apps now.

The Fighter Pilot Podcast roger that sir. It is indeed up. Thank you very much

Limited how?

I've never sat in an F-35 but there is a lot more sensor fusion in the latest & future jets. For example, you can have the camera feed from the bottom of the aircraft projected onto your visor so it feels like you are staring straight through your aircraft.

@@RKW1138 Okay, but I don't see how that relates to limited canopy visibility.

@@FighterPilotPodcast Hi Jello, not sure if you meant to respond to my comment. I was simply making the point to the original poster that the amount of polycarbonate is not as important now as it once was. From pictures of the F-35 the natural visibility looks great to me, similar to AV8B.

@@RKW1138 Oh, gotcha. Apologies. Saw this as a stand alone thread. No worries!

Perhaps they figure the F-16CJ has that covered.

Maybe someone else can weigh in here because I do not know.

There are multiple different ways. One is to simply out run them, like the SR-71. Another is to decoy it. Our you can out-maneuver it. ...and of course, sometimes none of those work.

Ideally you just avoid it, stay outside of it's kinematic WEZ.

Few have flown both.

No, quite the opposite--maintenance usually resists removing and reinstalling pylons because it's time consuming and things sometimes break or bend.

@@FighterPilotPodcast Can you share examples of what situations necessitate a pylon removal?

@@samivwow The only situation I know of that "necessitates" pylon removal is induction into major overhaul. Day-to-day, the only reason to take them down or put them up is based on operational and maintenance needs / desires.

@@FighterPilotPodcast Thank you for the answers!

The F-15J is a single-seat fighter. This episode is about the F-15E Strike Eagle.

Which part?

The Fighter Pilot Podcast The part where the jets fly.

@@wyattcresswell2499 Okay, sure. And so did the fuelers, airfield management, ops, safety, tax payers... it takes the whole team, no dispute there.

Did I not say that?

You did not

@@reallifescottsterling1471 You may want to double check around the 4-minute mark.

Your right I just didn’t hear it in the where it can be found in Hollywood section