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It might seem strange in the stealth era of fighter jets, but the U.S. Air Force is increasing its planned fleet of F-15EX ...
The U.S. Air Force has officially retired its last F-15C/D Eagle fighters from Kadena Air Base in Japan, marking the end of an era for the venerable Cold War air superiority workhorse. -The aging jets ...
The F-15EX Eagle II has been proposed as a “missile truck” for the lightly armed F-35, launching AMRAAM air-to-air missiles against targets a hidden stealth fighter can see.
All the extra thrust is put to good use in increasing the F-15EX's weapon capacity. Eagle II also gets a new class of radar. Instead of the mechanically-scanned AN/APG-70 of the F-15E, ...
F-15EX Eagle II: Expanding Capabilities for a New Era of Air Combat. In June of this year, the Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing in Portland, Oregon received America’s first operational F-15EX ...
However, despite the heavy weaponry it can carry, the F-15EX Eagle II is fast and agile. Powered by two General Electric F100-PW-229 turbofans with afterburners, each capable of producing 29,000 ...
A 142nd Wing F-15EX Eagle II, tail 008, takes off from Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. on July 12, 2024. The 142nd Wing welcomed its first F-15EX on June 5th and officially unveiled the ...
The new F-15EX aircraft, which is set to replace the aging F-15C/D Eagle, will be assigned to the 142nd Wing, Oregon Air National Guard, at Portland Air National Guard base.
Boeing’s vastly experienced F-15 chief pilot says he never went faster than Mach 2 while flying the F-22 Raptor in the Air Force. But when he took the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II on its maiden flight ...
That same month, Israel acquired a deal for a total of 24 F-15EX Eagle IIs (Israel's variant is known as the F-15IA), at a cost of $5.2 billion.
An F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 335th Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., releases a flare over a bombing range during a November 2023 exercise. The new advanced electronic ...
Since then, the F-15EX kind of left the spotlight, so the U.S. Air Force (USAF) decided to let us know it’s still out there, by recently releasing a new pic of one of the planes, as it was ...