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The Drive/Warzone: USAF's Next Budget Request Will Include New F-15X Advanced Eagle Fighter Jets: Report
We revealed the existence of the F-15X concept last July and now it seems like it may become a line-item in the upcoming 2020 defense budget.
Last July, I broke a story about the existence of Boeing's F-15X Advanced Eagle concept, one that the plane-maker had been in discussions with the USAF about for many months. That aircraft would be procured to replace America's existing F-15C/D aircraft, the vast majority of which are operated by the Air National Guard. Since my expose, the USAF has officially remained somewhat flippant about the F-15X and its talks with Boeing, which isn't surprising, but according to a Bloomberg report, that is about to change dramatically very soon.
The F-15X airframe would be single seat, but it would incorporate decades of innovations that are being applied currently in the latest F-15 Strike Eagle derivatives being purchased by Saudi Arabia (F-15SA) and Qatar (F-15QA). With an airframe life of a whopping 20,000 hours, and the latest sensors, flight control systems, and avionics, the F-15X would serve for many decades at an operating cost that Boeing claims will trounce that of the existing F-15C/D fleet—the youngest of which is now 32 years old—basically paying for the airframes with savings within about a decade.
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4 comments:
Stealth has its limitations, end of the day the F15 has one of the best kill death ratios of any plane. In any real war, production and equipment that excels will win a war. F35, is just a F16. Cheap junk the real innovation was in the F22 and F15 of domestic sales. Leave the stealth to the bombers.
Well, stealth is a marvelous thing, but it will not be forever. We have to have other solution, even that's not the F15X.
Great kill ratio against junk aircraft and 3rd world pilots don't assume a dog fight against a SU37 and a Russian Pilot would be close.
The F16 has about as much in common with a F35 as Mig29.
Exactly. above anon is probably sniffing glue or something
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