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28, announce USAF’s intention to purchase F-15EX jets from Boeing and F110-129 engines from General Electric Aviation, with both companies as sole source suppliers.

f 15ex cockpit

The Air Force has launched the process of buying new F-15EX fighters with dual pre-solicitation notices from the Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The F-35 could also deploy a hypersonic weapon and then follow that up with a stealth configuration into the battlespace using payload held within its internal bomb bay. The F-35 also has the advantage of having all its fuel internal and therefore not sacrificing range for the carriage of a hypersonic weapon, which the F-15EX would do with a large hypersonic weapon taking the place of the wing drop tanks. The F-35 has external pylons rated to the same weight as the F-15 and is more than capable of hosting larger weapons. The final issue I have is this continual problem with people claiming the F-35 cannot take hypersonics in its internal weapons bay, and therefore isn’t suited to that weapon/role. It is better to consider alternative arrangements for the carriage of additional missiles for 5th gen assets, such as loyal wingmen, than maintain a 4th gen aircraft as a bomb truck in threat environments it likely cannot survive in. 150+ for that to happen.Īn F-15EX carrying 22 A2A missiles is not going to have a very good range nor speed given the drag and number of pylons occupied by that loadout. The USAF wants economies of scale that come with operating large numbers of a single type and the number is approx. The flight hour cost is also wrong in that it is only factoring in the cost of operating the jet on a per hour basis and ignores the costs involved in maintaining a sub fleet of aircraft. Add in the F-22s which aren’t going anywhere and you have all the diversity you need. The USAF will also continue to operate F-16s until at least the mid 2030s and potentially longer.

f 15ex cockpit

He talks about diversity but ignores that the USAF will continue to operate F-15s, in the form of the E, until at least 2040. I agree on the big importance of diversity, why I do like getting the F-15ex, but only if we keep going full throttle on acquiring F-35's, we should at this stage have hundreds more F-35's in service but for the program delays.Ī couple of problems with the article. Several variants have been made since, with the Strike Eagle being introduced in 1986, and the most recent version being the F-15EX Eagle II, which entered service in March 2021.Īt the time of writing, according to Boeing’s count, there are some 1,500 Eagles in various configurations serving the needs of America and its allies.In an opinion piece at RCD a retired Col writes how important to order the F-15ex, he has valid points but it smacks of a Loren Thompson article where contributors to his site asked him to write, basically PR not news. The F-15 flew for the first time in 1972 and quickly grew to become one of the workhorses of the American military. If anything, this highly-detailed pic of the Strike Eagle is the perfect tribute to the F-15 family, which at the end of July, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The proximity of the photographer to the F-15 also allows us to see the two pilots inside the cockpit, with one of them watching closely how the connection between the refueling boom and the plane takes place and even the markings over the left-side engine. The closeup is so high-fidelity that almost every wrinkle of the bird is noticeable, and the paint job looks simply stunning. It’s a pic in most respects like others we’ve seen before, but at the same time, one of the most detailed. It shows an F-15E Strike Eagle, deployed with the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, as it conducts refueling operations over the military’s central area of responsibility. The image was snapped at the end of June, but was just made public by the Air Force.












F 15ex cockpit