Ground Radar for F15e

[brisk veldt]

The f15e is an incredibly expensive 1 per card plane with some of the slowest reloading bombs in the game, placed in a terrible division. Its main advantage is 40 percent ecm which is largely a diceroll and being able to do very limited air to air. Having some level of ground optics like recon planes would allow it to do deep strikes much more easily and make it stand out instead of being a less consistent slower reloading su24 lgb (which already isnt meta like most LGB). In general giving planes that had better optical systems some level of ground optics would be good and distinguish them more, but the f15e in particular deserves it i think.

currently the best way to do deep strikes with aircraft is literally to dive a mig21 shitbox bomber on the smoke trail/artillery vapor trail in question rather than using an aircraft that was especially designed to be able to perform the interdiction mission.

[willow pine]

Its not gonna happen (unfortunately), even dedicated fast recon jets like RF-4 for Germany, that actually have warload options, arejust being turned into regular iron bombers by Eugen.

"The (new) RF-4E were in real-life recon planes but are not going to be used as such in-game, being too fast to be useful as a battlefield reconnaissance in WARNO. Instead, in our war scenario, these planes are threatened with being overrun and hurriedly turned into makeshift bombers. Just plain ‘ol bomb trucks without any air-to-air defense missiles."
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1611600/view/538843836072329383

Best I would suggest is maybe to push Eugene to get LGBs 2x per card, since they are indeed quite anemic right now, and currently dont have their iconic status as 1990s hot technology

https://discord.com/channels/471232139661410305/1463910605873352918

[brisk veldt]

i mean we have actual recon planes and fast recon drones. this isnt for recon even

[willow pine]

"Having some level of ground optics like recon planes would allow it to do deep strikes" - that makes it recon.

[brisk veldt]

we have the security trait ingame that provides good optics to infantry and is very widespread. having worse optics than dedicated recon on combat units with a trait isnt even remotely impossible

[umbral belfry]

self spotting ground attack aircraft outside of the recon planes is a bad idea

[brisk veldt]

most of what im asking for is one aircraft that could absolutely do with being more unique

[umbral belfry]

but other aircraft have the same capability, so its better to keep the can of worms closed