Originally Posted by
FangsF15
The F-15E is a multi-role fighter, as is the F-16 and F-18, and retains all the air to air capabilities of the F-15C (and it could be argued has more, with the targeting pod). Note: I said capability, not proficiency. Also, BFM is a different animal, depending on whether we are talking -100, -220, -229, -129 engines. Additionally, the F-15EX blows all the capability of legacy eagles away.
Also, it’s 106-0 now…. After a pair of fencers were shot downed by 2 Qatari Strike Eagles…
I don’t know about now, but once upon a time they were giving fighter squadrons a primary, secondary, and even tertiary DOC (mission) assignment. Everybody was pretty good on their primary, fair to tolerable on their secondary, but by the time you got=around to their tertiary, well, pretty much all your flight and training time had been devoted to the first couple DOCs and most of that to the first one. So yeah, proficiency really did matter, even when you were nominally multirole.