As ur name, nostalgistic u r, some guy has posted picture that I demonstrated, it’s not the 90s now.
I must admit that a battle between the F-15ES Silent Eagle and the F-15EX Eagle II would be interesting, on one hand you have very good semi-stealth (like what the Su 57 has worse stealth capabilities than the F-15ES) and on the other you have 16 Fox 3s and maybe a slightly better radar
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Boeing really doesn’t want to make a Silent Eagle X for some reason…
They made in the 2010s when there was little seen threat from Russia and -to an extent-China, the US was enjoying their F22s and others F-15 users didn’t see a need for using it e.g. Israel would find more use with the F-15EX in bombing Hamas, civilians etc. and Japan didn’t need it when the had a better F16 and couldn’t afford to replace their whole F-15 fleet
And yet we could have had the F-15SEX as an actual real product, complete missed opportunity.
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This picture has been repeatedly brought up and “debunked” here. It shows an F-15C from the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing demonstrating new prototype/mockup dual— and quad-launchers as part of the Persistent Air Dominance Enabler program. That picture doesn’t mean this is already adopted for the F-15EX in service. Additionally, having dual-launcher racks on the belly necessitated the installation of CFT. These racks on the belly are AMBER (Advanced Missile and Bomb Ejector Rack).
There are talks that the USAF has plans to integrate CFTs with AMBER racks on the F-15EX, potentially increasing the total to 16 missiles. I do believe the F-15EX would be able to field 16 air-to-air missiles at some point in the future.
I will not deny that F-15EX will be integrated with further capabilities to field 22 of these potent missiles. I am simply saying there is no existing picture or video of the F-15EX demonstrating its utilization of AMBER racks and quad-rack launchers in flight yet.
We have the latest official picture of the F-15EX with its full, normal A2A configuration. As shown, it can carry a total of 12 missiles. Here:
The F-15EX entered operational service in July 2024, which was pretty recent. Only a small number of units are produced. We need to wait a little more time for the F-15EX to phase out from Initial Operational Capability and enter Full Operational Capability so that more information about its weapons, such as fielding 16-22 missiles, may eventually surface.
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I see it can also carry 22 air-to-air missiles at the same time.
It can’t support them, the quad racks that aren’t the underbelly ones are ferry-pylons, the missiles if i understand correctly cannot be dropped/launched when mounted to these pylons.
16 is still a lot
Can those outboard wing pylons handle a2g stuff like JASSM’s?
They limited IIRC to ±1000 pounds. So no. Only HARM, 2 AIM-120 or, maybe, 1 mav.
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I would guess it will come this year in December, along with the Su-35 or 37
So yall are telling the US made an air superiority fighter (F-15), then modified it into a strike variant (F-15E) which they then proceeded to modify again into an air superiority variant (F-15EX)? Whaaa
Oh nvm just searched it’s not just air superiority it’s still a strike aircraft like the F-15E lol
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Should have the performance of a slightly better F-15E because of the FBW
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Huh??, f15EX this year … ur hilarious likely next year summer(2026)
It’s replacing F-15C so in role (for now) it’s air superiority, but may replace F-15E since it maintains the strike ability
usa should gift their f15C apgv3s to the israeli airforce
I think we are, or planning to. Also, just buy more F-15IA instead if not
we are buying f15IA, we purchased 25 units a few months back lol, it would be nice for usaf gifted like 12 or 15 units of f15 apg 63v3 to the israeli airforce as a replacement for our Baz airframe as a placeholder until full f15IA delivery which wont happen until mid 2030s
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That will only happen once EX replaces those 12-15 F-15C in service