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I may have to revoke your Gen X card for that...For all those years of looking at the F-CK-1 I never looked closely at the lettering before now.![]()
Golden Eagle (for its cost)
Bald Eagle (geriatric base design)
4 years from allocation of serial number/purchase and delivery?EX7 airframe been painted and be heading to 142nd Wing , Oregon ANG, according to Boeing FB page.
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Hmmm, Poland interested in 32 x F-15EX
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Poland plans to acquire two squadrons of Boeing F-15EX Eagle II Fighte
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F-15 Type-R.
It was a car reference. Hondas specifically.Type-R?
There probably is one at a drag strip somewhere.And know I am wondering what form would take a GE F-110 powered Honda Civic...![]()
And know I am wondering what form would take a GE F-110 powered Honda Civic...![]()
Not an F-110 but:I can imagine a Honda Civic with a GE F-110-GE-132 mounted on it in an episode of "Top Gear" with Jeremy Clarkson in the driver's seat saying "Let's find out what it's like to drive a Honda Civic powered by an F-110 at 32,500Lb at full reheat, I bet it will take off like rocket"
Jeremy Clarkson engages full reheat with the reaction "Bloody hell this is hotter than a beef-vindaloo".
Both.Do the higher-powered F110 variants have more dry thrust, or just more wet thrust?
Should have replaced the Sparkvark with the F-15G.DoD nomenclature has gone to hell across the board. F-15EX sounds like medication. That said, F-15F doesn't sound cool so that should be used for the "foreign" models (marketing F-15K, F-15RS, F-15SA, and F-15QA). F-15G sounds much better and I like it.
[Make Eagles Great Again - F-15G Great Eagle]
Should have replaced the Sparkvark with the F-15G.
If the F-35 has the appropriate awareness, why not just use them?
I too really wanted the F-4G Wild Weasel to be replaced by an EF-15F/G
I do not see why any pods are necessary? The F-35 is an out of the box SEAD aircraft. It perhaps lacks a high intensity mid band jammer like the Growler, but I would argue for USAF purposes that does not matter: they are organizing along stand in weapons fired from stealth aircraft and stand off weapons from legacy aircraft. They have no plans or doctrine for escort jammers.
What really should've happened with the F-4Gs is being sent back to Boeing and be refurbished. That is each airframe be completely dismantled. All fatigued components and replaced by new components before the aircraft was reassembled with new equipment. IMO retiring the F-4Gs along with the F-111s and EF-111As was a very seriously shortsighted mistake.
What I'm thinking is that the modern battlefield is going to involve a ton of guided weapons crossing through the FEBA into blue force territory, as well as red air attempting to enter the areas you're performing DCA over. My proposal for the modern era is about making your 4th gen air defense aircraft into jamming and EW weapons to aid them as interceptors over your own territory.
While it most definitely still includes classic air defense, it's now heavily also about non-kinetic kills of missiles, drones, precision glide bombs, etc -- hurting their targeting, hacking them, frying their circuits, or interfering with their launch platform's ability to target them in the first place. ("Interception" can be anything that breaks their kill chain, not just kinetic destruction of the object.) My interest in the pods comes from the assumption (could be wrong) that nose cone AESAs are really nice for narrow beam attacks on specific point targets, but not as good as ALQ-99s or NGJs for area coverage. So the main purpose of the pods is breaking the kill chains of enemy missiles and drones over blue force territory, not aircraft vs aircraft, nor aircraft vs IADS. My original post mentioned the F-15G in an 80s context, but SEAD isn't the mission I'm talking about now.
With the Air Force still having lots of Eagles, I feel like there's going to be a lot of cases of F-35s operating over red territory and Eagles and Vipers defending blue force territory, while occasionally launching JASSMs and the like. So while you'd rather just have a force composed entirely of F-35s, you don't, and then the question is, are there affordable ways to leverage what you do have?
And two things we do have are (1) lots of F-15s, and (2) existing, already paid-for investment in pods integrated with Eagle-ish radars.