F-15A In War Thunder : A Basic Review 

Thanks for the content

I knew I wasn't crazy, I saw a notice on my phone when I got to work then didn't see video, thought I was crazy lol... at least for now...

so which one next?

@@theivo3014 The Su-27 will be next up.

Your dedication to your public service both on and offline is appreciated!

Also got to love the story of I believe it was an Israeli F15 that flew back and landed with 1 wing after being hit. Pilot didn’t even know he was flying with just 1 wing h til he landed! Just knew the plane was flying poorly after it got hit. 😂

*mid air collision@@meanman6992

Then it happened again later, resulting in the development of the F-22 Raptor

And then we get to fly it against Su-27s, with missiles a decade more modern than the F-15. Womp womp.

America kinda likes to make extremely good planes

Yep, the flaps have a fairly idiot-proof automatic retraction function thats pretty nice.

The late crusaders also have them i believe, i press F and the flaps dont come down until i slow down

Well AIM-9L is miles better than R60Ms, which is the other alternative of the R73. So...

@@sooryan_1018 R60MKs are a SUBSTANTIALY more reasonable missile than R73s and are better in the maneuverability aspect. Even then I was more saying how the f15 should have aim9Ms stock so that it could adequately compete. Realistic or not, that’s just game balance.

@@topaz2821 R60Ms have piss poor range and instant flarable. Literally a slightly longer range ASRAAM. AIM-9Ls are miles better for your BR, especially on facing MiG-29s with R60Ms

@@sooryan_1018 sorry but when maneuverability is taken into account with aim9Ls also being a 1 flair it evens out. You get less range but more maneuverability, that’s the trade off. Comparing the R73 to the aim9L is just not realistic. Either they both should get the non-IRCCM missiles stock or neither should. All this considering that the SU27 also gets 10 of the best missiles in the game (both IR and radar) it is not balanced for it to also have IRCCM stock.

@@topaz2821 you're 12.3 and face off more easier enemies. Also Su-27 never had R60Ms, but F15 had. So there's that

We need mouse aim for sim

@@drewywgx924 that completely fucking goes against what sim is supposed to be

​@@drewywgx924I disagree, EC just needs to be added to air RB Mouse aim in SIM would ruin the fun of sim

@@drewywgx924get good

I'll have a review of the J on its own at some point.

Nice, looking forward to it 👍

Its what I get for recording audio at 2 in the morning ;-)

@@TimsVariety ; That is what I call dedication, well besides the Jury Duty. Can't wait to have this bird unlocked.

Love seeing Don getting mention.

I pulled an all-nighter. Gotta deliver for my subscribers. 💪

R77 you can't hide from me your engines are mine ! hehehe!

I usually include some more CAS footage, but it takes far far longer to record, so only one clip this time. WHen I get to the other F-15s, they;ll have more CAS footage in the review.

I like to add a little variety to the insignia.

Thats normal for russian jets. Only putin knows.

The SU27 never carried anything but the R73 as a short range Fox 2. There is no other option for a stock missile.

what else are they gonna get? r-60m are doodoo garbage plus the flanker historically only carrier r-73s

Being totally fair, the F-15A only had AIM-9J/Ps available when it entered service in the mid 70s. The Su-27 only carried R-60s for a very short time during its prototype phase, the Sukhoi T-10 series.

@@cagingskies9584 but why not also give the flare resistant missile to the Eagle to make the grind a bit more comparable? And they're not "Fox-2s". The fox brevity codes are brevity codes to warn the LAUNCH of a missile, like calling "Fore!" in golf.

The f16AJ skin looks fab., cant wait to see what is pumped out by the community too

Most top tier American aircraft do

I have a tutorial guide going over how to operate radar, check the playlists on my channel page. As for the control layout I use personally, it wouldn't do much good to share it, I use a combination of overlapping keybinds, a 6 button mouse, and an elgato streamdeck as a makeshift MFD.

They've already added partial upgrades from the MSIP program to the As in the game, like the counter measures, and the Japanese F15 is actually a C model

This is a f15 MSIP 1 lol, which really doesn’t make sense because the program was canceled

I mentioned it in my radar guide, and when I update it (the guide) I'll keep the EEGS section.

I've never really found it to be helpful on most planes with the exception of a few. The f16 one is almost impossible to use in cockpit view but works well in 3rd person view. A little secret that most people don't use or know is both the F14B and F-16c can use their targeting pod (just the stock regular one for F14B works as well) to lock the target. When you this you get a separate EEGS that works very well in 3rd person view on both jets. And this way you don't need to have a radar lock to pull up the other system that's used. (The one that likes to jump around all over the place rendering them useless.

I mention it in my radar tutorial, when youre in ACM hit your keybind to change your sweep angle.

It's a clipped delta wing type design

You probably don;t need all 3 drop tanks 99% of the time ....

Its got the EEGS and CCIP....

People say that all the time, but I still don't know who Wags is lol

If you mean to change the MFD, there are keybinds you can set for that - go into your controls and search for "set mfd mode"

@@TimsVarietythank you t buns

Yuuuuuppp.....

@@TimsVariety absolutely unbelievable.

@@TheByQQ They really needed to up the BR to like, 13.0 for this patch (or change the matchmaker to .7 instead of 1) but nope... "we'll monitor the statistics and adjust if needed" ....

@@TimsVariety yeah. I genuinely expected them to be at least 12.7 on live server because you don't really need any statistics to realize that most of the 11.3 planes have nothing to give them a fair chance against 27's and 15's. They really should've waited with that release until they rework ARB, get more possible planes to introduce, and expand the BRs.

Nevermind my phone is just trolling

real

I like to mix things up a bit. :-)

No, I don't have the time to manage one, too much other stuff going on.

coming from the future with an unexpected plot twist: that was just a sensation as the F-15 eventually underperformed and the F-14B is still a decent support at 12.0 with AIM-54Cs.

Very soon - I was waiting for the December update since I knew they would be adding some of these new features.

@@TimsVariety oh sweet, thank you!

f15c probably dropping in a couple months with AMRAAM's tbh

I love to re-decorate my planes.

You're not wrong, the vast majority of its air to air kills were against opponents who never stood a chance.

To be fair to the Eagle It's not like Soviet pilots were always the best, flying their best. The IAF sent that message during the war of attrition when they shot down MIG21s flown by Soviet pilots in Egypt with their F-4s and Mirages And at the same time, the F-15 operationally predates both the SU-27 and MIG-29, by the time either entered mainline service, the USAF had been introducing F-15C

No particular reason, I just like to mix it up with the decorations sometimes. People read things into it, but really its just random.

Turn off the afterburner, this is top tier u can't just hold a sharp turn and not blackout, learn how to play

You get spoonfed the best vehicles in the game and then say copium anytime american mains want an equivalent missile or jet, youre cringe dude.

Womp Womp ruski

@@LewisB3217 im a germain main buddy cry some more

@@Migthunder German main because they had the best mig-29 lmfao ☠☠

@@Yea.IGetHectic Drinking the tears of the American mains cry me a river..

You're taking too much fuel, don't dog fight or make sharp turns with more than 16 minutes of fuel

@@atvkid0805 The F-15 has the biggest wing area of all top tier jets, it shouldn't wingrip while doing sharp maneuvers even with +70% of fuel capacity, though it does at 45% onwards. I may let you pass that mistake with a heavier F-15C, but not with the A. The F-15A underperforms given historical documents and ingame statistics.

@@exhausting_thoughts I have almost 50 battles in f15 now & haven't wing ripped once, just stay low and fast

​@@atvkid0805 LOL you won't teach me how to play the F-15 as i have both the US and the japanese, played them +320 games combined with over 1.8KDR , i know them pretty damn well and despite its maneuverability, it sucks heavily for the current meta at top tiers. You get only 4 competitive IR missiles without HMD, 4 unreliable SARH missiles + you have to freaking guess how many fuel you may need to not just run out of gas for the endgame while thinking about being maneuverable through the entire game, however literally NO OTHER PLANE has to do that to be reasonably maneuverable and to not rip, not even the Gripen. Doesn't that clicks in your head? at full downtiers though, the F-15 is quite enjoyable as you have favorable chances against multiple PDV radars that doesnt like slight cranks. So yes it is a mediocre plane which wingrips at transonic speeds and at best is worth grinding after you got both F-14s/F-16s, though in Japan is superior to the F-16AJ and way better than the F-4EJ Kai.

@@exhausting_thoughts skill issue, stop trying to play top tier jets like a prop. U can't hold down the turn key and expect to not blackout or wing rip.

Except this isn't true?

@@exmachina1405 cope

@@eduardokarlos1419 In your dreams yeah. Cope harder.