F-15 (Page 2)

Posted on Apr 29, 2025

Tactical airpower, and specifically the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-15EX Eagle II, are big beneficiaries of recently proposed legislation put forward by the Republican leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.

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F-15 Eagles Win Big In Supersized Defense Spending Bill

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 28, 2025

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F-15EX Production Heats Up

Posted on Mar 13, 2025

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle conducts combat patrols over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Oct. 20, 2024. The F-15E is deployed within the USCENTCOM AOR to help defend U.S. interests, promote regional security, and deter aggression in the region.

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F-15’s New EPAWSS Electronic Warfare Suite Already Has Successor In Development

Posted on Mar 5, 2025

An apparently new photo published by Boeing shows one of its F-15 Advanced Eagle series fighters fitted with what looks like a previously unseen infrared search and track (IRST) sensor ahead of the cockpit.

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F-15 Nose-Mounted Infrared Sensor Hinted At In New Boeing Photo

Updated on Feb 27, 2025

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Israel Performs Parade-Like Fighter Jet Flyover For Arch Enemy’s Funeral

Posted on Feb 23, 2025

The F-15EX, the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft, arrives to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida March 11. The aircraft will be the first Air Force aircraft to be tested and fielded from beginning to end through combined developmental and operational tests. The 40th Flight Test Squadron and the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron personnel are responsible for testing the aircraft.

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F-15EX Nails Pentagon Test Campaign, Survivability Concerns Remain

Posted on Feb 6, 2025

An F-15E on a flight line in San Antonio, Texas. The aircraft was recently upgraded with Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System, advanced electronic warfare system.

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F-15E Strike Eagle With New EPAWSS Electronic Warfare Suite Heads To Frontline Unit

Posted on Jan 17, 2025

The arsenals of the U.S. Air Force's F-15E Strike Eagle and F-15EX Eagle II combat jets look set to grow with the addition of stealthy AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM).

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Stealthy AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles To Arm F-15EX, F-15E

Updated on Jan 9, 2025

Israeli has launched airstrikes on multiple targets in Yemen, including the capital of Sana’a, in response to an overnight missile launch from Yemen toward Israel. The Israeli raids come after an uptick in attacks against Israel by the Yemen-based Houthi militant group, including two in the past week.

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Israeli Air Force Strikes Yemen With Popeye And Rampage Standoff Missiles

Posted on Dec 19, 2024

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F-15E Pilot Recounts Having To Switch To Guns After Missiles Ran Dry During Iranian Drone Barrage

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 15, 2024

Israel will buy 25 F-15IA fighters, marking the first new Eagles that the country has acquired since November 1995, when it ordered F-15I Ra’am jets. This summer, Israel had been given U.S. approval to by as many as 50 F-15IAs, as well as upgrade its F-15Is. Whether more F-15s or upgrades are added, the current wars in the Middle East mean that further acquisitions of combat aircraft are likely.

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Israel Executes Long Awaited Buy Of F-15IA Advanced Eagle Fighters

Posted on Nov 7, 2024

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Israeli 707 Tanker’s Secretive Remote Vision System Revealed In Long-Range Yemen Raid

Updated on Sep 30, 2024

Collins Aerospace has put forward a vision for what a high-end air combat engagement between the U.S. and Chinese armed forces, with the American side employing crewed fighters and Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drone wingmen, could look like in the future.

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What American Fighters And Their Drone Wingmen Fighting Chinese Jets Might Look Like

Posted on Sep 20, 2024

The U.S. Air Force recently awarded contracts to two companies for work on SHARK 'buddy store' podded aerial refueling systems able to work with aircraft that use the boom method to get gas in flight.

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Aerial Refueling Boom Pods That Could Go On F-15s In The Works

Posted on Sep 3, 2024

KC-46 and F-15E had an incident resulting in the loss of the tanker's boom

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Audio Reveals Details Of KC-46 And F-15E Refueling Incident That Broke The Tanker’s Boom Off

Posted on Aug 23, 2024

F-15IA sale approved by state department.

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Israel Officially Cleared To Buy 50 New F-15IAs, Upgrade 25 F-15Is

By Major Joshua "Soup" Campbell

Posted on Aug 13, 2024

F-15EX and J16, both two seaters, but one uses the second crewman in a different capacity than the traditional weapon system officer role.

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USAF Should Look At China’s Future Multi-Crew Fighter Model For F-15EX

Posted on Jul 25, 2024

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Details Of Israel’s Long-Range Strike That Decimated Yemeni Port Emerge

Posted on Jul 21, 2024

The Pentagon has made a new announcement about the first forward-deployments of Air Force F-35As and F-15EXs to Japan, as well as changes to the Marine Corps' F-35B force in that country.

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USAF F-35As To Be Based In Japan Replacing Wild Weasel F-16s

Posted on Jul 3, 2024

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from Royal Air Force Lakenheath's 494th Fighter Squadron returns to formation after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker from the Fairchild Air Force Base's 92nd Aerial Refueling Squadron, over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, May 2, 2024. The U.S. Air Force is globally postured to protect and defend freedom of coalition allies and regional partners within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to maintain peace and stability across the region.

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Flying The F-15E Strike Eagle In Air-To-Air Combat, From Dogfighting To Drone Hunting

Posted on Jul 1, 2024

A USAF F-15EX Eagle II armed with 12 AIM-120 AMRAAMs.

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F-15EX Testers Are Now Preparing The Eagle II For Rapidly Adapting To New Missions

Posted on Jun 25, 2024

F-15EX has been put through its paces by testers in Eglin AFB to prepare it for service.

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How USAF Testers Are Working To Field The F-15EX Fast

Posted on Jun 18, 2024

F-15EX arrives at the 142nd Wing in Portland.

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Inside The First F-15EX Wing Commander’s Plans To Speed The Newest Eagle Into Service

Updated on Jun 14, 2024

A USAF F-15EX takes off carrying 12 AIM-120 AMRAAMs.

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What It’s Like To Fly The F-15EX According To A Boeing Test Pilot

Posted on Jun 11, 2024

The Oregon Air National Guard has received its first F-15EX Eagle II fighter, marking the first delivery of one of these jets to an operational unit.

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The F-15EX Eagle II Has Arrived In Portland

Posted on Jun 6, 2024

A USAF Boeing F-15EX flies at low level in Nevada.

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How 50 Years Of Eagle Experience Has Shaped The Advanced F-15

Posted on Jun 4, 2024

Officials at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina are looking into the possibility of erecting physical barriers to protect F-15E Strike Eagles there from drones.

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Enclosures To Defend F-15Es From Drone Attacks Eyed At Seymour Johnson AFB

Posted on May 30, 2024

Black Flag 24-1, out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, run by the Air Force’s 53rd Wing.

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Massive China-Focused Black Flag Test Exercise Flies Deep Into The Virtual Realm

Posted on May 28, 2024

Members of Congress are pushing to block the US Air Force from retiring more than half of its F-15E Strike Eagles.

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Move To Block F-15E Strike Eagle Cuts Being Made In Congress

Posted on May 14, 2024

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Boeing Pitches F-15EX For Saudi Arabian Fighter Competition

Posted on May 3, 2024

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F-15E Strike Eagle’s Defense Of Israel Bolsters The Case For F-15EX

Posted on Apr 17, 2024

Naha Air Base temporarily moves its F-15s in light of a tsunami warning

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Japan’s Tsunami-Fleeing F-15s Took To The Road

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Apr 5, 2024

The long-running question of whether Israel will finally buy a new batch of F-15 Eagle multirole fighters looks like it might be answered sooner rather than later. The latest reports out of Washington indicate that the Biden administration is now considering whether or not to move ahead with a deal, which would likely involve as many as 50 examples of the F-15IA — an Israel-specific variant of the F-15EX.

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F-15 Sale To Israel Reportedly Ready To Close, Will Gaza Change That?

Posted on Apr 3, 2024

The USAF wants $1.5B in spare parts it doesn't have in its budget.

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Hundreds Of Air Force Aircraft Risk Grounding Without Extra $1.5B Spare Parts Infusion

Posted on Mar 28, 2024

The Air Force's proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget includes a cut to the total planned size of the F-15EX fleet from 104 to 98 jets.

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F-15EX Fleet To Be Cut Down To 98 Jets In New Air Force Budget

Posted on Mar 11, 2024

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Just How Fast Is The F-15EX Really?

Posted on Feb 26, 2024

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“I Would Love To Have More F-15EXs,” Air Guard Boss Says

By Tyler Rogoway, Howard Altman

Posted on Feb 14, 2024

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The Last USAF F-15C/D Eagle Instructor Pilots Are Now In Training

Posted on Jan 24, 2024

Rare look at the upgraded cockpit in an Israeli F-15A.

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F-15A ‘Baz’ Upgraded Cockpit Seen In Rare Israeli Air Force Photo (Updated)

Posted on Jan 11, 2024

Boeing says it has delivered the second pair of F-15EX Eagle II fighters to the U.S. Air Force after a year of delays.

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Second Pair Of F-15EX Eagle II Fighters Just Delivered To USAF

Posted on Dec 21, 2023

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F-15EX To Be Based At Kadena Air Base In Japan: Report

Posted on Dec 18, 2023

Qatar's F-15QA has been showing off like no variant of the F-15 before it at the Dubai Airshow this week.

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F-15QA Flies Demo Unlike Any We’ve Seen From An Eagle Before

Posted on Nov 15, 2023

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F-15’s Tilting Air Intakes Showcased In Awesome Video

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Nov 4, 2023

The US has struck Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for a spate of attacks aimed at U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks.

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U.S. Strikes Back At Iranian-Linked Bases In Syria (Updated)

Posted on Oct 27, 2023

Boeing says Poland has expressed an interest in buying F-15EX Eagle II fighters.

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Poland Eyeing F-15EX Buy Amid Weapons Buying Spree

Posted on Sep 7, 2023

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Indonesia Emerges As First F-15EX Export Customer

Posted on Aug 22, 2023

Live Fire Missile Combat Archer Gulf of Mexico

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Chasing Missile Shooters Over The Gulf Of Mexico In An F-15

Posted on Jun 16, 2023

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This Is Why F-15EX Deliveries Have Been Delayed

Posted on Jun 8, 2023

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F-15EX No Longer Heading To Oregon Training Unit, F-35 Instead

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on May 26, 2023

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F-15 Seen Damaged In Drainage Canal After Landing Mishap (Updated)

Posted on May 16, 2023

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Air Force Announces F-15EXs Are Headed To Two New Bases

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 19, 2023

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F-15Es Strike Back After Deadly Iranian-Made Drone Attack On U.S. Base In Syria (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 24, 2023

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F-15EX Conformal Tank Funds Sought, Fleet Size Questions Reemerge (Updated)

Posted on Mar 20, 2023

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F-15E Strike Eagle Fleet To Be Slashed By Over Half: Report

Posted on Mar 16, 2023

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F-15EX Eagle II Total Buy Increases From 80 To 104 In New USAF Budget

Posted on Mar 13, 2023

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Buying Just 80 F-15EXs Makes No Sense

Posted on Mar 9, 2023

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F-15E Strike Eagles Now Flying Without Conformal Fuel Tanks On Air Defense Missions

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

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F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

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South Korea To Spend Billions Upgrading Its F-15K Slam Eagle Fighters

Posted on Dec 29, 2022

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F-15Es Brandish Live Munitions During Drills With Israel Aimed At Iran