Can This Thing Dogfight ? F-15E Strike Eagle Vs F-16C Viper | Digital Combat Simulator | DCS |

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On this channel we like to do a lot of dogfighting most videos are some sort of dogfight between 2 different aircraft as we explore their different capabilities. From time to time I like to dabble in Virtual Reality, I think VR is a great new technology and I love to show that stuff off for the channel from time to time.

If you enjoy war thunder or Microsoft flight simulator 2020 or even dogfighting in Battlefield 2042, consider getting yourself into Digital Combat Simulator by Eagle Dynamics, the Combat side of Aviation with the BVR and Dogfights really provides a different and interesting perspective on aviation. You can fly all kinds of combat aircraft including the F-16, F-15, F-14, JF-17, Su-27, Mig-29, Mirage and the F-18 Hornet along with many other aircraft and helicopters like the Ka-50 and Mi-8.

[GrowlingSidewinder]

Thanks for watching guys and I hope everyone is enjoying their Strike Eagle. If you have any ideas for future videos let me know in the comment section below and maybe we can get them into the pipeline. Thanks again and much Love.

[EB-vzob]

I have a friend who is a retired Viper driver and was in the Aggressor squadron. Several years ago I asked him about the Strike Eagle. He laughed and said, "yeah, we used to stay out of burner to be nice!"

[Tuuvas]

Solution: give your WSO a pistol and pop the canopy. That'll stand a better chance at getting bullets where they need to be lol

[Mb-cnql]

Can we just acknowledge the aero modeling at 10:00 watching the vertical fins shake like that while you’re uncoordinated? Impressive modeling from the developer.

[Lightning_aus]

Welll... this fight is like a nascar vs an F1 car. Built for different purposes. The viper should win every time, if the pilot knows what they are doing.

[caleblarsen]

So basically the F-15 went from "not a pound for air to ground, " to, "we only pound the ground."

[lorenzotelleria]

Can you do a video comparing the C an E model in a dogfight? Would be cool too see the difference in capabilities as dogfighters.

[keithhoss]

The Strike Eagle (among those in the know) is notorious for poor acceleration and bleeds off energy very quickly in the high g environment. No match for the viper in a dogfight.

[therocinante]

Very interesting, I didn't expect it to be such a big difference from the C. I guess the conformal tanks and all that extra weight are a much bigger hit to the BFM characteristics than I imagined.

[Reaper_-]

Now I am the world's biggest Eagle fanboy, but the Mud Hen shares only its basic silhouette with the F-15D.

There is over 1, 200kg worth of reinforcing of the airframe to strengthen it, necessitating the more powerful GE F-110 engines over the P&W F100s in the F-15A - F-15D and its export derivatives. There is also the somewhat reduced by far from negligible affect that the CFTs (Conformal Fuel Tanks) impose on the airframe of the Mud Hen when compared to a pair of traditional drop tank.

Now the F-15EX shares little with the lineage of both the Eagle and Mud Hen, aside from its silhouette. The EX has a fully digital control system, so the older hydraulically actuated control surfaces are out with electric motors now taking inputs from the pilot via the new fully digital flight computer and moving the control surfaces. The EX is also supposed to be lighter, given that its airframe incorporates a greater percentage of composites over alloys than the -C and -E Eagles. The EX is also designed with open architecture systems, which makes incorporating new weapons and upgrades a much simpler endeavour over aircraft like the F-22 which were designed and built before the advent of open architectures.

[gustavolrcoelho]

"It's called a STRIKE Eagle, not a DOGFIGHT Eagle, God damn It!" - Some project engineer at Boeing, probably.

[darthtytherous]

I thought at first that since it’s an F-15 variant that it could dogfight. Needless to say I learned it’s not a bfm dogfighter the hard way after I merged with a MiG-21.

[bobdonovan]

I'm one of the ones who thought this thing was going to dominate as a dog fighter. Then I took it out for my first flight and quickly realized I better learn the ground attack role if I want to get some use out of the aircraft.

[migcap]

The issue with the F-15E is the CFT on the jet. Once the F-15C were removed from England a few of the Strike Eagles were reconformed without the CFT which give the Eagle much better performance. They did this because they needed Eagles that could do Combat Patrols in Poland late last year and this.
I didn't fly E models just the Abinos, aka C's and in reality when you removed the tanks you have an hoped up C model with better intergraded systems because most are newer version of the F-15C.

It's one of the questions I need to ask RASBEZ in a forum if the tanks can be removed because I love to see how they perform w/o them.

[kmphASMR]

Your Strike Eagle videos will contribute significantly to this year's Moments-of-Death compilation.

[joelhume]

Its important to note that not being a good dogfighter is not the same as not being good at air to air combat. An F15E with eight AMRAAMs/AIM9X is a very good air to air fighter because of its powerful sensors, speed, thrust, long range and combat persistence.

[mrblablablabla]

4:18 eh, I guess we"re not doing a parachute...??" LOL XD

[SabertoothedFrostbite]

I'm noticing a lot of people in the comments aren't making the distinction between the f-15e variant and the f-15c variant. The e variant is a completely redesigned aircraft for ground attack, it may look like an normal f-15 but it performs entirely different.

[texasabbott]

Some USAF F-15E's have been conducting air-to-air exercises since January 2023 with their CFTs removed. While F-15E's with the F100-PW-220 engines and no CFT's performed similarly as the F-15C's, F-15E's with the F100-PW-229 engines (adding 11, 000 Ibs. or 24% more total thrust) and no CFT's could prove a formidable adversary. There is no shortage of players who would be willing to pay for the F-15E flight model with no CFT's.

[arzhangsadeghi]

Thank you so much for the dogfight, I really wanted to see how it performs, I really appropriate your timer and effort.