I mean… the way it is going. We will probably receive the F/A-18C this summer and then in December more advanced 4.5 gen aircraft. It was just a guess
1.As of mid-2022, the U.S. Air Force operated 168 F-15C and 18 F-15D aircraft…
2. The first F-15EX was delivered in March 2021 and delivered to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.There are six of them in total-all of them will be used for test purposes…
3.On June 3.5, 2024, the 142nd Oregon Wing received its first F-15EX with a fighter landing at the Portland National Guard Air Base, and the second arrived a month later.
4.Basic F-15 training, for both the F-15E and F15 EX, will take place at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina starting in 2026…
f15EX is a 4.5 gen on steiroids, its not gonna touch game till mid 2026.we havent even received proper ingame aesas nor advanced fox 2s
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So by the time those F-15C are replaced, the first F-15IA will have come or be close to coming
I’d like to see this before the F-22 Raptor tbh. +1!
Who knows, Israel may get APG-63v3 F-15C in war thunder one day, with their F-15IA’s
Did they used them??
They might get some in the next few years as hand me downs from the Air Force
key word: might. Although they are still U.S planes
ofc it would come before lol , even though f22 raptor predeates the f15EX by a decade + ,the eagle dosent even come close to the raptors level
usa is quite genrous when it comes to handing out israel handme downs , just 9 years ago usa gifted israel 8 units of f15-D as a replacement for fatigued airframes of Baz A/B units
Yeah, I don’t think we are ready for 5th-Gen fighters with stealth capability this year, tbh. I am betting we will be getting them by 2026-2028. This F-15EX is just a nicer filler aircraft to add before we transition into the 5th and 6th generations territory.
I actually think EX may come after the raptor. It only uses the more advanced AIM-120 and very advanced a2g weapons with an incredibly powerful radar and tons of countermeasures
very unlikley, the diffirence between the raptor and the f15EX is VERY diffirent , the raptor would eat the eagle alive, it would be more realistic to expect a f15EX before(probably 3 major updates) the raptor
i suppose f15EX to come by may 2026
expect the raptor around early 2027 with the advanced eagle arriving early-mid 2026
The F-15EX is the only US fighter-bomber capable of using ammunition up to 22 feet (6.7 m) long and weighing 7,000 pounds (3.8 tons), including hypersonic weapons.
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Didn’t know that.
But have they put anything into service that could take advantage of that capability?
At first, a variant of the AGM-183A rocket was planned, but in September 2021, the first launch of the AGM-182 HACM rocket was from the F-15 EX…It is also possible to use the F-35…
In general, the hypersound program in the United States is as closed as ever.
The only photo of the AGM-182A HACM…
Spoiler
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New information just dropped about the F-15EX. The USAF currently plans to integrate and equip the F-15EX, along with the F-15E, with the AGM-158C-1. This is an anti-ship variant of the AGM-158 JASSM, which is a stealthy air-launched cruise missile that’s more advanced than the Navy’s Harpoon ASMs. The AGM-158C is already used on the B-1 Lancer, so the F-15E/EX would become the first strike fighter platforms in the USAF service to utilize it in the future. (Not sure if the F-35A is getting it, but the Navy’s F-35C already has integration.)
Source: USAF plans LRASM anti-ship missile integration on F-15E, F-15EX - Naval News
Here’s an artist’s 3D rendering of the F-15E(X) launching the AGM-158C:
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