F-15J The Sparrow Actually Works In Sim - War Thunder

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For this video I decided to play the new F-15J Eagle for Japan and found out the best way to play it.... ( for now) Enjoy! :)

[@TheDAWinz]

So, TWS on the F-15 is interesting. The F-15J is a C model but its functionally identical to the American A (outside the weight), the radar is a PSP or MSIP, however nobody really truly knows when the Eagle got TWS, sometime in the 90s to early 2000s, so it could be something Gajin is waiting to add with AIM-120s. It might be the case we just have a PSP/MSIP radar pre-TWS.

[@Brzzzyexe]

if russia get's r-27er's we should get 120's fr

[@mr_confuse]

​@@Brzzzyexebecause who cares about balance anyway

[@casematecardinal]

​@@mr_confuse are you stupid? In no way is the amraam better than the er at least in its initial production version. Stop acting like the 120 will somehow break the game especially after the er

[@kennyxkazuki713]

The f-15j started with tws I believe, it got hmds, better data link, electronic warfare, and aam5 capability with a modernization program in 2019 (I think, dates are a bit confusing)

[@norske_ow3440]

@@mr_confusebecause the r27er has better range, better speed, better turn, and better tracking than aim120A. And r27er can be guided by tws… same as aim120A… totally unfair 🙄 try learning about shit before bitching about your beloved Russia maybe having competition

[@Registered_Simp]

I've really noticed the speed the F-15 can do. I also went for the J, and the AAM-3's have given me some absolutely nutty shots. It was never the G limit that interested me about them. It was the drag reduction. It has almost the same TWR as an Aim-9M, but has 16% less drag; so you can really get some cracked range out of them. Been slinging Aim-7M's at 40km+ and getting kills. Was also at one point going so fast I defeated an R-27ER from 30km at 8000m co-altitude by cranking alone. She's a speed demon up high

[@AlphaJulietBravo1]

Got mine up to 2.35 Mach with a full fuel and missile load before running out map in test flight

[@hemendraravi4787]

Was the r27er fired from super low alt ? Cus a launch from 10,000m will make it hypersonic I don't think u would be able to crank that at 30km

[@Registered_Simp]

@@hemendraravi4787 It depends on allot of variables. And even then, I'm not sure ER fully reaches that mach 5 barrier in live matches unless bro is taking his sweet time getting faster than reasonable in space. But let's just say I was going mach 1.6 when I was shot at and cranked multiple times perfectly while rapidly reducing altitude. It was close (like 500m behind level close), but I managed to survive it while continuing to guide my Aim-7M right into him

[@hemendraravi4787]

@@Registered_Simp i think it will get to mach 5 at 10,000m launch at mach 1 +

[@kimay3857]

I don't know if you've paid attention to the forums, but the Gripen has been nerfed 2-3 times now - there was a massive bug report on it's sustained turning capability which got passed - and had the Gripen nerfed down to where it's at now. (not to say it's bad) I wouldn't be so sure it's gonna get more nerfs but we'll see. I think it's pretty accurate right now, keep in mind on min fuel it's TWR is well above 1. And F16's still beat it in sustained turning capabilities afaik unless the F16 gets below 300kt or something

[@Registered_Simp]

3:13 F-15's rip speed is 1617 kmh / 873 kts IAS. You still got a bit to go on those wings.

[@Azzoz1]

The jas39 is truly a monster in sim as of right now. Yesterday i was in a (every nation vs. every nation) sim battle on the enemy team there was a jas39 with 27 kills and i with 12 only as i joined late. It was crazy, i was in a dogfight at low alt. With the enemy jas39 and there were a bunch of mig29s su-27s f15s and f16s. Because of the tws i just casually kill 3 players while still turning with that jas39.

[@rubotok3703]

I've always wanted to get into war thunder sim, but i find the controls truly difficult to set up aim and such, would you ever think of showing how you get such smooth maneuvers in sim!

[@luquai]

Yes! I totally agree. I also found no good way to set my gear up. I am also new to the sim world.

[@Mani_Gamer885]

Hi, I noticed that you use PD in head ons when you fire the sparrows. I noticed on my F 15A in the US tech tree that in head ons the signal strengh is way bigger in the PD HDN mode of the radar, in in a lock you can change the radar mode to normal PD if the target starts to notch, this will also avoid you from losing lock a lot of times. This means that the missile will have a stronger signal at longer ranges, allowing you to fire from 50 km sometimes!

[@christopherchartier3017]

While that is certainly true, I wouldn’t really fire sparrows beyond 40km unless I have WICKED altitude and speed

[@kylemcintee6737]

Hello, I’m trying to get rid of pitch axis keybind as it is set to move with my mouse right now but it will not let me remove the key bind. Do you have an idea why this could be?

[@KOOBA2137]

nice video, im having a problem spotting other planes on the video as fast as you, do you mostly look at radar or look for dots when flying low? never played wt sim so no idea how its supposed to work there

[@johannbezuidenhout2976]

KZbin codec compression causes artifacts in the videos that you upload. This makes small or far objects hard to see even if they are clear in the original video. This is a major problem for games that have really long range render distances.

[@nelsonh.9651]

so ugh, how would you counter the groundhugging cockroach meta? i found it super annoying since they basically never gets hit by SARH

[@elementalgolem5498]

the ideal turnrate Kt is about 450 on the f15 and the f16 for those close dogfights

[@MrRobschnieder]

What about in kmph? And why do I see so many sim players using Kt’s?

[@elementalgolem5498]

@@MrRobschnieder because knots is what the airframes actually use and therefore all the official numbers for aircraft are usually given in knots. Sure you could always just take that to a calculator and check. 450knots is the f16s turning speed okay that's 833kph got it.

[@MrRobschnieder]

@@elementalgolem5498 Is there any sort of chart anyone has made that lists all the optimal rate speeds of all the popular aircraft? Or am i going to have to individually look it up for each plane or jet i fly?

[@elementalgolem5498]

@@MrRobschnieder ehh depends, usually no, not all. Because well, it gets crowded fast. But I've seen charts showing f 14 15 and 16 on one. I've seen f 16 Vs mig 29 etc. So it depends on what ones you fly. If you give me the 3-4 you fly the most I might be able to get the numbers pretty quickly no promises though. Also the 450 for the F16 and f15 were very rounded off numbers, as charts are usually given with altitude and Mach numbers. So just one aircraft chart is a lot of chart to read. Saying 450kt for the F16 is just "generally it's a good enough speed to have" even if the ideal speed for a given altitude might be 468 or 430

[@MrRobschnieder]

@@elementalgolem5498 My go to's are the Mig-21SMT, F16 block 10, F14B and ill soon have the F15a. Guess the mig doesnt matter as much since its not a great rate fighter anyway, but ive really been trying to get better at 2 circle fighting in the f16/F14s. I was definitely going way too slow if its 450kt for the f16 since i was normally only aiming for ~500 kmph and that explains my struggles haha. But i just recently made the switch to SIM from air RB and noticed you can actually drag people down to the deck and actually get into 2 circle fights so i gotta learn all the speeds for it

[@CashCutri]

can you please tell me your settings and what you play on?

[@wt_hangman]

How did you set hud color like that?

[@MAJmufin]

Hey there, Love the content.I am currently flying my SU27 and F16 AJ in sim (air and ground) and I can agree with that if a competent user is in a gripen, its (j)over. the only chance I have is if I can nail him with a 27ER on the first merge. otherwise, nope!

[@syed8460]

What head tracking do you use?

[@nimbal3304]

The right thumbstick on my controller :D

[@devdream9277]

lol@@nimbal3304

[@devdream9277]

Have you treid AI track + OpenTrack ? With some tweaking it work good enough for me to use it just need a webcam@@nimbal3304

[@TheDAWinz]

Eagle on top!!!

[@GRNbull98]

I hope when AMRAAMs come, they add the F-15C for the USA so we can still keep the F-15A with purely sparrows instead of getting another weird ahistortical chimera fighter jet in game. The Israeli Baz and the Japanese F-15J both could carry AMRAAMs but I do not think the American F-15A was ever upgraded to do so and those that were upgraded, were upgraded to F-15C standard. I am a huge proponent of multiple variants of 3rd-4th gen fighter jets and I'd love to see numerous versions of not only the Eagle but also more variants of the F-16, F/A-18 (in the future) and maybe even more Phantoms

[@johannbezuidenhout2976]

The A/B was replaced with the C/D in 1979. The AMRAAM went into production in 1991 and service in 1992. So yes the A should be Sparrows only. They still can add the AIM-7P with better low level performance over the M and the AIM-7P Block II with a new rear receiver allowing the missile to receive mid-course correction from the launching aircraft. The AIM-7R, which added an infrared homing seeker to an otherwise unchanged AIM-7P Block II was cancelled in 1997 due to budget.

[@devdream9277]

Hey ! what's your post FX setting for your war thunder please ? It would be great to know it, thanks

[@jordancourse5102]

7Ms still feel kinda shit when firing in rear aspect, the range in rear aspect is soo bad lol. The f15 is great but I kinda hate the HUD. It seems cramped af. I still prefer the Flanker (my favorite plane of all time. The most annoying plane right now to fight is the Gripen due to its over performing FM.

[@EL_CHPP0]

It's probably not overperforming because gayjin has increased its drag which makes it slower and less manoeuvrable. It also has 300 less bullets since the dev server.

[@nimbal3304]

Yeah its not the most usable HUD ive ever seen gonna be honest...

[@christopherbernhardt]

I don't think it works better in sim, I think that people are more thoughtful with their shots in sim and do a better job at taking good shots. Just a thought

[@interests6702]

Your game looks gorgeous. What are your video settings?

[@farmcat9873]

Wow by the sound of this mans voice I would think they were from Europe and seeing a person from that section of the world using FEET instead of the measurements that are used in the countries of Europe(kilometers) hell I live in that one country that uses feet for measurement and I use in-game kilometers just because that's what the majority of people use in this game so it makes it that much easier for me when some one types out in chat things like the bomber is at 6k meters cause I don't think I have really ever seen anyone type out in chat how many feet is the height of the bomber. But to each their own

[@codeycox247]

In the UK they still use imperial measurements. I believe they were the ones who came up with it.

[@Bullet4MyEnemy]

Feet and nautical miles are the entire world’s aviation standard with the exception of Russia which uses metric. But yeah, the UK is a mix of both, we still used miles and mph, buy fuel in litres yet measure efficiency is miles per gallon… Go figure. Measure our height in feet and inches, weight in stone, baking is split generationally between imperial (old wrong people) and metric lol

[@ccclll987]

So Nimbal, I see you dont use vertical tilt on your radar antenna. Why so? Have you tried it?

[@nimbal3304]

I would use it if we could turn the gyro off.

[@SJkopa]

WOW!! I want it too.😢😢

[@spankeydawg7198]

My guy even Americans use meters in this game

[@moonman8684]

the f15s hud is still fucked

[@StoobsNA]

This comments so late that you probably wont care but the best fuel load IMO (ARB player not sim bc i'm poor) is 20m internal + drop tank on either side, the performance with 30 minutes internal and 1 pod is definitely lesser for some reason and I can't really quantify why but I'd assume the center pylon just has more drag.

[@vauxcorsa]

yo umm do you have a discord i cant find it