Hope it's true. We need the F-22's successor in short order.
I guess I am just a old fan from the 80's
What is the problem with F-15 / F-16's [ I know the F-15's have a structural issue behind the cockpit ]
[besides no longer being built]
have avionics and flight changed that much since the 80's ... what about upgrades
I'm not a fan of either the F 22 or F 35 .... I think the money could have been better spent modifying what we already had
Dan Grazier, the Jack Shanahan Military Fellow at the Project On Government Oversight, writes extensively on military procurement, to include the F-35 acquisition. He said that while he can’t comment on the specific designs of the F-15X, it is generally better to develop weapon systems from “an evolutionary approach.”
“Whenever the military possesses a proven basic design like the F-15, the Pentagon should focus its efforts on maintaining and improving it until the state of technology changes to the point where the basic design is no longer viable,” Grazier told Air Force Times. “Until that happens, there is no reason to continually reinvent the wheel. If it is possible to incorporate improved technology into a design that has already been bought and paid for, then it only makes financial and common sense to do so.”
The Air Force’s fleet of F-15 C and D Eagle fighters are aging faster than F-35 Joint Strike Fighters are being fielded. There’s a gap in the transition that some think needs to be filled. Boeing’s new F-15X design may be the Air Force’s answer to that issue.
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I also think the Air Force should turn over the A-10's to the Army, as they don't really want to support such and excellent ground support aircraft
The U.S. Air Force Is Buying New F-15s After All
The U.S. Air Force will go ahead and buy brand-new F-15s even as it purchases large numbers of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Updated with the latest technology, the F-15X can carry nearly two dozen air-to-air missiles and will likely work together with stealth jets to take on fleets of enemy fighters.
An
article at
Bloomberg has revealed that the USAF will request eight F-15X fighters in its budget. The service plans to buy 80 fighters over five years. That's enough to fit out a wing of 72 aircraft, divided into three squadrons of 24 planes each, with eight spares. That's just the five-year projection, though, and the service may buy additional fighters beyond 2025.
The F-15X will come in two versions, a single-seat F-15CX and a twin-seat F-15EX. According to
Aviation Week & Space Technology, other than crew size the
two jets will be identical. Here's a Boeing promotional video for the F-15X, also known as Advanced Eagle.
