Two Days, Two Leaks
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Sensitive F-15 data posted by War Thunder fan
A host of restricted documents about the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet was posted on the forum of an online video game, War Thunder.
The leak comes just a day after the game made headlines following a user’s post which contained a restricted document about the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.
The new leak appears to have consisted of numerous Operational Flight Program (OFP) software manuals for the F-15E, including ones on flight controls, navigation, targeting and weapons systems.
The information provided in the post indicates the documents were originally published between 1998 and 2000 and pertained to OFP suite 3. The suite has been upgraded numerous times in the past decades, and it is unclear if the old one is still in use.
The documents were posted on War Thunder forum on January 18, 2022, by user RanchSauce39. The post has since been deleted by Gaijin Entertainment, the discussion on the forum indicates.
A screenshot of the post has been preserved and spread across social media; some screenshots of the manuals, shared by RanchSauce39, have also been posted in the same thread, as users argued if they contain classified materials.
The forum moderators seemed to agree that while the documents were declassified, their publishing was restricted and disallowed by both the US law and the rules of the forum. AeroTime had no chance to confirm that.
