no? they were designed for the USAF/USN first and foremost
also, no one is buying the F-22 no matter what bc its literally illegal. and F-47 may follow in its footsteps
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I agree based on the lack of a silent eagle variant for the advanced eagle series I think boeing is a terrible company
Silent Eagle was always a waste of time and money.
I can give you an entire essay on why if you would like.
People forget that Boeing is just as much responsible for the YF-22 as Lockheed. And it says something that they managed to be they were the one of the finalists for the JSF program with their X-32.
Boeing Commercial =/= Boeing Defense
we are missing out on the F15-SEX right now so I disagree
Should be sad about missing out on the F-15CX, not the SE 🤣.
That would be true. If F-15EX that Boeing was producing didn’t have problems.
its almost like they dont want to use the good names
they even canceled the B-1R
And where are they now? Oh yeah that’s right, coming off the factory line and heading to combat units. You can pick literally any aircraft ever built and find issues with test and evaluation airframes, which they were, that are rectified prior to service entry.
I mean I dont think we would ever have gotten that, iirc air to air is mostly gonna be up to 5th+6th gen with maybe some f15s throwing missiles from stupid far
with that kind of fighting theirs no point investing in a non multirole f15 because its not like maneuverability is gonna help too much and the EX should be good enough for everything it needs
but LO is a benefit in most situations so SEX makes some sense
I had the idea that boeing could install exhaust bypass nozzles in an x pattern to provide horizontal stability
It could have them synced with the FBW.
But this is just my own idea, not what is actually true.
some old test have shown you can replace stabilizer by canting the wings upward slightly, it wont be as stable but is functional and removes flat control surfaces for stealth reasons
Like the phantoms canted wing?
sorta I think, but different wing profile would probably work better for it
It was much closer than you would think. It just came about that using the 2 seat airframes was cheaper as they have been in production for decades.
The F-15EX might be capable of multirole, but that is not their use in the USAF, at least for the time being. They are to replace the F-15C/D fleet that has reached its airframe end of life. Just because the jet can do it, does not mean it’s worth the time or money to have pilots trained in both roles, when their purpose is to be the best at one. Just because there is a second seat doesn’t mean its occupied.
No. The beauty of the F-15 in relation to the 5th/6th generation aircraft is the ease of maintenance and aircraft availability. Slathering the entire thing in RAM will have the opposite effect, while having almost no reasonable decrease in observability as the F-15s structure is just not good for stealth. The intakes are just flat out horrible, as is the nose barrel. Canting the verts helps a bit, but it doesn’t change the fact that most of the aircraft is a very good reflector. Couple that with the requirement for internal storage of weapons kills one of the major benefits of the F-15 which is magazine depth and combat radius, because you incur the bulk of the CFTs, with none of the gas, all while having less missiles.
It also just flat runs counter to what the F-15 does best which is DCA. It’s going up and saying," hey, I’m big and I’m bad and I’m rolling around with the Eye of Sauron. I see you and you know I see you so you’re not going to do anything I don’t want you to do, or else." If the F-15Cs are going up, they aren’t trying to hide. They want to be seen, and they are making their presence known.
I wonder if we’ll some updates for USN 6th gen carrier based craft soon.
I guess, but still think Boeing could have at least tried marketing it
its too stealth, they cant find it
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It’ll just be the F-117N lol
Speaking of which…
they did