Why America's New F-15EX Eagle II Feared Around the World

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Published 2023-10-21
Why America's New F-15EX Eagle II Feared Around the World

Before the development of the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 Eagle ruled the skies. More than 50 years after making its first flight, the F-15 Eagle remains one of the most feared fighter aircraft around the World.

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All Comments (21)
  • @mantia39
    I'm so happy the F15 is going to be around for a while longer! It's such a beautiful and iconic aircraft. Way to go Air Force!
  • @JC-nl9yq
    I was 7 when I played Super Strike Eagle on SNES. It gave me a certain sense of respect for the airframe. I played F-117 sims, Falcon 4.0 (now DCS), every type of flight sim you could imagine, but the F-15 has a flawless victory. I have bad respect for that plane.
  • @redskiclayton
    I never realized these were still in production? WOOOOOOOOOOOT MURICA!
  • @MiquelGorbiviUS
    Still feels like the old generation engineers are better to invent and build these F14, F15, F16, F22. Hope the F15ex lives up to its name.
  • @cb01ttr
    This makes a huge amount of sense - proven airframe and engines. Simply upgrade a few things and you have a crazy capable jet, with a much lower per hour cost than f-22 or f-35.
  • @gordonallen9095
    The Eagle is one of the BEST fighter airframes ever designed. One of the reasons it's lasted so long.
  • @viking_II
    So proud that my favorite all-time plane still giving the fight for 50 years and more.
  • @howiescott5865
    After flying for half a century... still good looking and it just keeps getting better and better...
  • @belliduradespicio8009
    They should make the penultimate Eagle, adding the Silent Eagle features, and call it the F-15SEX
  • @midgetydeath
    It's simple, the old F-15 is unbeaten from decades of warfare. The new one is made using technology decades more recent than the F-22.
  • @waynecoulter6761
    In some of the photos I see four BRU-61 bomb racks being used to carry two AMRAAMs each for a total of 8 missiles, the normal wing racks with LAU-115/127 Launchers with two missiles (four more missiles), another set of LAU-115/127 Launchers mounted below those (four more missiles) and an additional set of pylons mounted closer to the wingtips with two more LAU-115/127 launchers (four more missiles) for a total of 20 AIM 120 AMRAAMs. The issue I have with that set up is that from appearances, the BRU-61 Bomb rack can't mount the AIM-120 with the full set of fins mounted. One set of fins would need to be removed on the inner side, under the rack as they would prevent the missile from being mounted to the rack. You can't really tell as the only photos I've seen show the rack from the side. Unless they modify the BRU-61 racks to provide more stand off to the mounting, AIM-120s appear as if they would not fit. In other photos, it is shown mounting single missiles to the hardpoints that would mount the BRU-61s below the conformal fuel tanks. That set up would make much more sense but would drop the total number of AIM-120s to sixteen, not twenty. You'd probably want to mount a couple of AIM-9X Sidewinders for short range engagements, further dropping the usable load of AIM-120s to fourteen... Still nothing to sneeze at.
  • @claytonbaker5858
    I am Canadian we fear everything lol, hell throw 1960s planes at us and I think we would run for hill's.. lol Nice Fighter...
  • @PsyphaX09
    Still effing beautiful design even after half a century.
  • @realistic.optimist
    As a degreed engineering and a former fighter pilot there are so many little tweaks they could do to reduce the RCS more I wonder why they have not.