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
hasnt usaf alreaddy been retiring dozens of f15C/D airframes?
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!