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Advanced Eagle: Boeing unveils new details about the F-15EX

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For months now, internet pundits and lawmakers alike have debated the logic behind the Pentagon-directed United States Air Force (USAF) initiative to procure new F-15s from Boeing. In an era of stealth fighters like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor, many people would argue that purchasing new “old” fourth-generation fighters is a step in the wrong direction.

Those in favor of the purchase, however, contend that the F-35 is still riddled with issues and exorbitantly expensive to operate, thus making the lower-cost F-15s the right answer for missions in uncontested air space. Which, it pays to note, is where most ongoing combat operations take place today.

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  • Mason

    Mr. Goldfein is smart, he used their own Corporate speak to work around their pork barrel “stymie the other guy” schemes. Nice job. Plus like you mention Alex, a huge percentage of engagement anymore is in uncontested airspace. No doubt we need stealth, but we need raw Air to Air and Air to Ground capacity with a good turnaround also.

  • WayTooMuchGear

    That many hard points, better tech and lower price point? Starting to make a lot of sense.
    Also, having recently come to a new understanding of how much of the work the AWACS platforms are doing, it makes sense to put more, cheaper birds in the air.