[WIP] Boeing F15SE Silent Eagle

[randomslap 27]

Boeing F15SE Silent Eagle

Current State:

Info

The Boeing F15SE Silent Eagle is an upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-15 with stealth features. It contains upgrades like RCS (radar-cross section) treatment, weapons bays and other fifth generation fighter technologies. Today, the F15SE Silent Eagle is still under development by Boeing, but it will be the most up to date F15. In this ArmA 3 mod, I have tried to make it as accurate as possible. I have included features like weapon bays, mounted hud on the pilot's helmet, a co-pilot seat, F110-GE-129 engine nozzels, and many more.

Armament

Option 1

Main gun

-M61

Top and bottom weapon bay

-4x AIM10C or 4x AIM-9X

Option 2

Main gun

-M61

Top weapon bay

-2x AIM120C or 2x AIM-9X

Bottom weapon bay

-4x MK82 or 4x GBU-38 or 4x GBU-12

Things to do

-Fully working instruments

-Textures to the weapon bays

-Add the service menu by John_Spartan

-Many more

Credits

randomslap

dezkit (For the model and textures)

Note

This mod will not be released until I have fixed most of the C17's bugs. I will do my best to fix the C17 but it may not be perfect.

[Keegan 11]

Nice!

[sanguinius51 11]

Beautiful, slap. Would love to fly this against John Spartan's SU-35.

Will the stealth play an actual part, or is it just cosmetic?

[randomslap 27]

Beautiful, slap. Would love to fly this against John Spartan's SU-35.

Will the stealth play an actual part, or is it just cosmetic?

I will try to lower the radar signatures on the plane. I will try making it stealth in game as best as I can.

[warlord554 2065]

Very cool aircraft. Nice to see a different variant. Good work!!

[Shazzy 17]

Very nice! cant wait! Quick question however either its just the camera angle or do the vertical stabilizers have not have the tilt like the F-35/F-22 like its supposed too? (Going by the boeing model here

Or did you go with the standard F-15's stabilizers?

[randomslap 27]

Very nice! cant wait! Quick question however either its just the camera angle or do the vertical stabilizers have not have the tilt like the F-35/F-22 like its supposed too? (Going by the boeing model here http://www.flightglobal.com/assets/getasset.aspx?itemid=28081

Or did you go with the standard F-15's stabilizers?

Thank you for letting me know. I will eventually tilt the stabilizers and the rudders later.

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Well actually I just tilted the stabilizers like the picture you showed me.

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Differences

F15C by dezkit

F15SE

Edited May 12, 2014 by randomslap

[CyclonicTuna 87]

YES YES YES YES THANK YOU!!! I've been fouching for BI to put this aircraft in the game since the day Arma 3 was announced! THANK YOU !!!!

[x hunter33 10]

I will try to lower the radar signatures on the plane. I will try making it stealth in game as best as I can.

Possibly make it appear as a grey triangle instead of red for the enemy?

[Shazzy 17]

Ah ok awesome!

[CyclonicTuna 87]

Possibly make it appear as a grey triangle instead of red for the enemy?

That would be a start but unidentified targets are still lockable. Perhaps it would be possible to just decrease the lock distance on the F-15SE, so that you can only lock with heat seekers within close visual range and won't be able to lock with radar at all.

I don't know if the F-15SE is as stealthy as an F-22, F-35 or an F-117, I doubt it to be honest, so perhaps when you get close enough you should be able to lock with rader guided missles aswell. I guess it a balance thing that should be considered.

[randomslap 27]

Well it is still underdevelopment, but I also agree that it is not stealthy as the F22, F35, or the F117. I am sure they will increase the F15SE's stealth.

[Shazzy 17]

Agreed as the body in the F-15 itself isnt stealthy let alone meant to be but should be at least fairly close more or less. at least to radar

[ice_age0815 37]

good job looking really good

[CyclonicTuna 87]

Agreed as the body in the F-15 itself isnt stealthy let alone meant to be but should be at least fairly close more or less. at least to radar

Well it doesn't make use of the same angular techniques, and lifting body cross section reduction as say the F-22 or the B2. But in theory it could make use of the same radar absorbent material used on those aircraft. Which would bring it alongside orther semi-stealth aircraft like the B1B. Except ofcourse the F-15 is much smaller to begin with so would have an smaller radar cross section than the B1. But in radar reduction-precentage wise I could see it being on the same level.

[Garra 10]

Good Work!

[randomslap 27]

Ok so I just finished texturing the weapon bays. Now I need to do the instruments, which I do not know how to do. If anyone can find me a tutorial, that would be great.

[CyclonicTuna 87]

Ok so I just finished texturing the weapon bays. Now I need to do the instruments, which I do not know how to do. If anyone can find me a tutorial, that would be great.

I think Nodunit could help you out with that.

[MrF 10]

Wow, this is cool !! Love this Jet !! :)

[sanguinius51 11]

Looking forward to some awesome high-speed dogfightin' over takistan. (Best map for dogfighting, as you get really high frames due to the desertic nature of the desert. No trees.)

[CyclonicTuna 87]

Hey randomslap, quick question. With the "hud mounted on pilots helmet", do you mean the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System as shown here:

http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=15520&mode=view (340 kB)

Or something else? If so, will it actually be possible to target things for instance beneath you or beside you, and "see" thrue the cockpit floor? Because as it stands, Arma 3 only allows for you to lock target within like a 30 degree field of vision in front of the airplane. John Spartan and Saul who are making the F-18 also want to implement this at some point. Maybe you guys could come up with something together?

[Hav0k 10]

Looking good. I'd probably prefer a standard F-15E Strike Eagle, but that's just me.

[CyclonicTuna 87]

I want to point out that the rudder tails do not have a tilt in them on the F-15E.

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100828140317/battlefield/images/e/e6/F-15E.JPG

Yeah that's correct, titled tailfins are one on the new features of the SE. They use the regular F-15E to test individual systems that will be integrated in the SE once completed, that's why the experimental SE doesn't have the tilted fins yet in test video's.

Here's a mock-up of what the SE is supposed to look like once finished:

http://i34.tinypic.com/1ortbk.jpg (705 kB)

Edited May 12, 2014 by CyclonicTuna

[tybo25 18]

Looks very nice and promising! I think this will fit greatly in the ARMA 3 armaverse, so keep up the good work! :)

[randomslap 27]

So heres some WIP pics:

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Hey randomslap, quick question. With the "hud mounted on pilots helmet", do you mean the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System as shown here:

http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2005/august/photos/aug_i_tt.jpg

http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=15520&mode=view (340 kB)

Or something else? If so, will it actually be possible to target things for instance beneath you or beside you, and "see" thrue the cockpit floor? Because as it stands, Arma 3 only allows for you to lock target within like a 30 degree field of vision in front of the airplane. John Spartan and Saul who are making the F-18 also want to implement this at some point. Maybe you guys could come up with something together?

Yes, but I do not intend to have to have the pilot to have a lock system where you can lock a target anywhere.