all that talk about “no need f
or dogfighting”, so 1960’s… 😀

not to speak about lasers on fighters.. LM should try to manage to make the technologies of today work as advertised before talking about technologies of tomorrow

Because stealth and supercruise doesn’t work right?

yes not int the rear secror, ddm ng takes the game.

All sensor are fused via MDPU

Did you read the specs and look at the pictures? Talios is Oodas like, not eots

Like I said, 2nd rate. Federated, bolt on.
I didn’t say sensors arnt fused, but they are ductaped on.

But its slewed by the APG-81 or the das.
Its not just a pod but an integrated system. To go back to a pod would make it federated. This was a lesson learned from package Q. There are benefits to having the same strike package, all with the same configuration, with the same fuel fraction. It makes planning easier.
Futher more if the entire flight has to follow the plane with the pod, then the unpodded planes receive no advantage.
Any drag or fuel advantage, will disappear once you have to follow the draggiest plane around.
Msphere, I like you, we have good debates, but this isn’t a good fight.
It flies in the face of the ENTIRE concept of sensor fusion.

The question is not whether it’s more modern than OLS-27.. The question is whether it’s an advantage to have it
integrated all the time vs podded..

Msphere lets try this. Show me a mission that doesn’t need it.

A2G check for laser pointer and flir
A2a, check for irst functions
Air policing check for indetifying targets at range
Sead (think laser jadam)

Maritime strike?
Surveillance?
Its likely the only thing that you wouldn’t need the eots for is dumb bombing.
So please help us understand why youd take it OFF the plane?

The last official CPFH released for the F-15E that i am aware was for 2010, it was precisely 28.636$, i
would imagine that with inflation and the fleet being used to the “bone” (pun intended) that CPFH went up quite a bit. Anyone has a more recent official number? Thanks in advance.

FY2015? Roughly one full third less according to the Koreans?
Now an interesting question, that “Flyaway cost” that you mention is with (the numbers that the USAF Comptroller uses) or without (the numbers that Bogdan and Delanova uses) the non recurring costs (concurrency, non recurring tools and equipment, etc)?
Very recently someone pointed to me that the tools and the production costs associated with a certain 2014 Titaniun Bulkhead should be entering the 2015 accounts as “non recurring”… If true, its… well… interesting.

I think that its probable that a dedicated operator using the likes of the AN/APG-82/AN/APG-66(V3) and something like the LITENING 5 should have a real advantage over a pilot operating the F-35 systems in the air to ground arena. Both the radar and the LDP that the i´ve mentioned are arguably superior to the ones on the JSF and it has another brain/eyes solely operating them. And did i forget to mention ROVER?

Off course that i might be entirely wrong, i dont have absolutely no experience on the matter.

Another obvious thing, the F-15E is a niche aircraft in the USAF inventory, it counts for a very small % of CAS sorties in A´Stan, on the other hand the F-35A will compose around 80% of that same USAF fleet, what this means is that almost EVERY flight will have associated costs that would rival the ones if that flight was made with a Strike Eagle.
Wich is all very and nice if you´re trying to go after an S400 battery around Saint Petersburg, but its stupid on a grand scale if you´re bombing Kalash wielding bearded guy´s in “Cameland” (AKA A´stan).
And this comes to my original point, the F-35A is not particulary well suited for A´stan.

Cheers

Your thinking seems antiquated. Stealth will be baked into any new design from now on.
Did the proliferation of advanced radar make planes more expensive? I suppose then that the Typhoon, and other Euro-canards are a waste in A-stan also. What about your F-15E? Why do you need a plane with mach 2 dash Amraams, and 2 expensive engines to bomb mud huts?
Do you see now the flaw in your argument?
You could make the argument that you dont even need tactical fighters for A-stan

You really think The F-15E is cheaper to buy and maintain? How we had F-15Es is GW1 and did they fix the scud tracking problem? You need a plane that can search track and geolocate the scud and tel. We need a plane that can do this while surviving pop- up sams.