Meet the F-15 Eagle: air superiority, USAF issue 86ef63b

The Air Force heard the Navy was having all the fun and sent over its champion: the F-15 Eagle is now on the flight line as a player mount — press 4 at the plane select. Two things to know up front: it has never lost an air-to-air fight in real life, and it has no tailhook. The card:

1. Powerplant: two Pratt & Whitney F100s, about 23,800 lbf each in afterburner — the thrust-to-weight that made “not a pound for air-to-ground” a flex.
2. Performance: Mach 2.5 class, 9 G capable, with a wing so big the jet lands itself when the pilot runs out of ideas. Ours keeps the manners and loses none of the rocket ship.
3. The record: 104:0 in air-to-air combat by the mid-90s across all operators. We have not nerfed it. Much.
4. The look: twin tails canted outward, wide flat centre body, canted intake boxes — compass-ghost grey with subdued USAF titles and FF on the fins.
5. The load: four AMRAAMs on the fuselage corners, Sidewinders on the wings, and the 20mm Vulcan with 500 rounds.
6. In the bay: runway starts only — SFO, Oakland, Moffett, Alameda — because no tailhook and no catapult bridle means no boat. The plane select will tell you so if you ask nicely. Gallery page 4, printable STL on the store.