F-15 Eagle Thread

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6 new F-15SA en route for Saudi Arabia yet 24 delivered
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6 others now 36 delivered on 152

 

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New freshly built RSAF F-15SA Advanced Eagle on a test flight at St. Louis

 

[Air Force Brat]

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Yes, and I love "PRIMER BIRDS"!

6 others now 36 delivered on 152
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No doubt the Saudi's are gonna fall in love with their eagles?? in a fight, its still the best of the 4 Gens, in spite of others claims of superiority, OVT and the like not-withstanding, many of the Eagle Drivers choose to stay with the Eagle, rather than transition to the Raptor when invited,, the Eagle is still the original "winged surfboard"!

 

[Dizasta1]

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Am I correct in assuming that the "green" vertical stabilizers and the air-intake movable gate are all made of composite material?

 

[Air Force Brat]

Am I correct in assuming that the "green" vertical stabilizers and the air-intake movable gate are all made of composite material?

I'd say that's "fairly likely" the bottoms of the vertical stabs have several rows of rivet close together as does the apparent attach point for the verts on the aft fuselage,,, so likely some heavier metal superstructure under the skins to facilitate the attaching of those possibly carbon fiber verts to the aft fuselage.. engine intake ducts are excellent places to use carbon fibre, as it needs to be light and strong.

 

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USAF F-15E with 20 GBU-39 !

 

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2 new with one more old 12 AIM-120 loaded for bear !

 

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The Air Force Is Arming the F-15 with New Weapons....

"Air Force officials say the F-15 could be fully armed and operational with the SBD II as soon as this year.

The SDB II, now nearing operational readiness, is a new air-dropped weapon able to destroy moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions at ranges greater than 40-miles, Air Force and Raytheon officials said.

While the Air Force currently uses a laser-guided bomb called the GBU-54 able to destroy moving targets, the new SDB II will be able to do this at longer ranges and in all kinds of weather conditions."

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This chick remains very good SDB-II for F-15E have also or for soon AGM-158B now AGM-158A a very long stick is the more powerful fighter bomber but F-15C with Helmet majority have now AESA radar, soon new IRST pod really capable fighter !

 

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JASSM-ER achieves FOC on F-15E Strike Eagle

The US Air Force (USAF) has declared full operational capability (FOC) of the Lockheed Martin AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile – Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missile on the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle multirole strike fighter.

The USAF’s Seek Eagle Office – which leads the integration of the AGM-158 JASSM and AGM-158B JASSM-ER missiles on the F-15E Strike Eagle – declared FOC for JASSM-ER on the aircraft in the fourth quarter of 2017, although this was only publicly disclosed in early February 2018.

A Lockheed Martin release noted, “With the completion of integration and fielding of JASSM-ER’s Suite 8 Operational Flight Programme [the software programme of an embedded computer system which enables that system to perform its interactive tasks as designed] the F-15E Strike Eagle becomes the first Universal Armament Interface [UAI-compliant platform to field JASSM-ER.” A USAF programme of record, UAI is a US Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to develop a standardised interface for aircraft, weapons, and mission planning to support integration of future weapons independent of aircraft Operational Flight Program cycles. The baseline AGMA-158 JASSM was the first missile to be integrated on a UAI platform.

Externally identical in mold line and size to the baseline of AGM-158A JASSM, JASSM-ER is 4.26 m long, 450 mm high, and about 635 mm wide, with a deployed wing span of 2.7m as currently configured. Both variants share about 70% of their hardware and 95% of their software. With an estimated launch weight of 1,200 kg , and equipped with a 454 kg dual-mode penetrator/blast fragmentation warhead, the AGM-158B is a day/night all-weather capable weapon, furnished with an inertial navigation system (INS)/enhanced digital anti-jam GPS receiver to dial into specific target aimpoints, with an advanced imaging infrared seeker for terminal guidance. Powered by a Williams International F107-WR-105 turbofan engine – which replaces the Teledyne J402-100 turbojet engine in the baseline AGM-158A – and with an added fuel capacity that does not affect the payload or electronics capability, the JASSM-ER solution extends the missile’s range from 200 n miles to 500 n miles.

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