F-15 Eagle Thread

[Air Force Brat]

Great 4 ship !
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interesting formation "break"!

 

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Dang I love the look of the F-15! Sad the AF want to get rid of F-15c/ds and replace with F-16s!! To save money? Sounds like LM has been busy busy with the Lobbying/ bribing

That's probably not going to happen, this is one of those "off the cuff" brainstorming wonderboy or girl ideas, completely off the wall, worse than culling the A-10s?? The F-15 works very well alongside the F-35, the F-16 while cheaper, will always be less capable.

 

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Dang I love the look of the F-15! Sad the AF want to get rid of F-15c/ds and replace with F-16s!! To save money? Sounds like LM has been busy busy with the Lobbying/ bribing

The F-15 is likely always going to be the most beautiful, well proportioned, powerful lifting body aircraft we are ever likely to see, straight and straight forward aerodynamically (F-15 landed after losing a wing in a mid-air, that was the most insane story I had ever heard???) but that's just who she is, sweet, honest, and dangerous to bad guys!

She's a very solid 4 gen, paired with F-22s or F-35s still very dangerous, without those friends?? she'd be in a fight for her life, with those friends, she's still a "bad actor"!

 

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That's probably not going to happen, this is one of those "off the cuff" brainstorming wonderboy or girl ideas, completely off the wall, worse than culling the A-10s?? The F-15 works very well alongside the F-35, the F-16 while cheaper, will always be less capable.

Right surely little idea in more a part of F-15 ANG Fleet ( 136 on 260 F-15C/Ds in 6 FS )have yet the new AESA radar so curious.
He get more powerful than F-16 with 8 AAMs vs 6 max and a range clearly superior the 6 Sqns are distributed around the CONUS, 3 fefend Western Coast, 1 the South and 2 East Coast the more famous i have read several articles the Bayou Militia to La Nouvelle Orléans 159 FW, 122 FS also a location a little French hehe

 

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Ok you want surely it done recently the 6 F-15C/D Sqns each have 18 - 22 the OCU have 32 fighters.
2 Sqns Portland, Jacksonville and a part of one La Nouvelle Orléans have F-15C with AESA radars only C receive so about 50.

But i can t open boxes only one i have number inside hehe
i have all active for all services remains for ANG, Reserve F-16 much ! and A-10 Sqns.

Active 4 Sqns : 2 to Okinawa, 1 UK, 1 Weapon tests to Nellis and after a flight ... almost sure and logic active have in general all aircrafts in reserve, spares etc... ANG, AF reserve don' t have or very few.

In red SAMs.

 

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RSAF 3rd batch of F-15SA has just departed from St. Louis on delivery to Saudi Arabia

 

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Mach loop !

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

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Really If they wanted to retire F15 The best options would be Either A) Restart the F22 line and do a proper 1 for 1, or B) buy F15SE. F16 is a fine bird don't get me wrong, I hope the USAF keeps F16's around even after F35 goes full operational just for Aggressors. Like this F16 in Russian Shark scheme here. View attachment 37383 You hear the Jaws theme playing? I bet some Eagle Drive at Red Flag did.
I <3 aggressor colors!
But Viper was always meant to be the low fighter for the Eagle's high. And phasing out F15C/D would be phasing out the majority of that high leaving only the ground attack F15E.

So yesterday I voiced my opinion on the claims push for F15C/D retirement but why is there a case for it?

The

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may still have an undefeated aerial combat record, but the 38-year-old aircraft could be slated for retirement if the U.S. Air Force decides not to fund a major structural life-extension program.

Air Combat Command (ACC) chief Gen. Mike Holmes says it could cost $30-40 million per aircraft to keep the Eagle soaring beyond the late 2020s, including rebuilding the center fuselage section, among other refurbishments. “We’re probably not going to do that,” he tells Aviation Week.

The better answer, he says, is to rapidly begin buying more fighter aircraft, at least 100 per year. That includes ramping up

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Lightning II output once the low-observable fifth-generation aircraft matures, but also successive purchases of air superiority jets under the service’s new Penetrating Counter-Air (PCA) program.

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F-15SA 3th batch delivered total 13 whose 10 new and 2 S modernized

 

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