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F-15 Eagle
IOC: 1976
Total Production: 1,938
Total Program's Cost: USD$59 billion
F-15A Eagle
Production: 1,500
Unitary Cost: USD$30 million
Origin:United States of America
Contractor/s:
Boeing
Description:
The F-15 Eagle is an all-weather, extremely maneuverable, tactical fighter aircraft designed to outperform and outfight enemy aircraft obtaining air supremacy for the US Air Force. It replaced the F-4 Phantom II in the US Air Force inventory.
During the Balkan conflict the F-15s downed 4 Serbian MiG-29 Fulcrum and 33 of the 35 fixed-wing aircraft downed during the Gulf War. The success key of the F-15 Eagle is combination of maneuverability, weaponry, advanced avionics and a pulse-Doppler radar system. The pulse-Doppler radar permits to engage multiple low and high flying targets at long range. The F-15's internal countermeasures system provides both threat warning and automatic delivery of countermeasures against selected threats.
The Eagle fighter aircraft is armed with an internal 20mm Gatling gun and can carry and launch up to 4 medium range AIM-7 Sparrow/AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles and up to 4 short range AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. The A, B, C and D models of this aircraft were designed to fly air defense missions with irrelevant attack capability.
The first flight of the single-seat F-15A Eagle was in 1972 achieving operational capability four years later, in 1976. Some of the US Air Force F-15As were transferred to Israel and the remaining are being withdrew from active service.
Specifications
Accommodation: Crew 1
Guns: Main Gun Caliber 20 mm
Dimensions: Height 5.7 m, Length 19.5 m, Wingspan 13 m
Weights: Max Weight 25,400 kg (55,996 lb), Min Weight 12,970 kg (28,593 lb)
Engine/s Performance: Thrust 47,660 lb (21,619 kg)
Performance: Ceiling 19,812 m (65,000 ft), Max Range 4,600 km (2,484 nm), Top Speed 830 mps (Mach 2.50)
Other: Number of Engines 2
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IOC: Initial Operating Capability
FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
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