Is the F-15EX Secretly the Best Fighter Jet Ever Made?
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- The F-15EX is a new fighter jet from the US Air Force. It is put up against the F-35 and F-22 to see which jet is the best. Fighter aircraft and military power will be discussed as a figher pilot reacts to the new F-15.
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Sir, it would TRULY be an honor to shake your hand! You were a Thunderbird Pilot, F-15E Pilot & a Commercial Airline Pilot! WOW!!! THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!!
Also, great video on the OUTSTANDING GUCCI F-15EX!!!
Former Cold War Eagle Keeper and current Boeing Field Rep in the house. So glad to we’re building the Eagle II. Long live the F-15. I still remember those iconic words from Iris Rose at the St Louis factory: “I christen thee Eagle. May you reign supreme in your domain” (here, here)
If you are responsible for naming this thing F-ONE5EX, I need you in my office first thing in the morning. That's dirtier than B-1R! You're getting promoted son.
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It took a moment to get it. 😂
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Why do they call it "Eagle II"? Isn't that usually reserved for a completely new airplane (e.g. Lightning II, Phantom II) rather than a major update?
@@blurglide From the inside it is a 'completely new airplane' the ability to locate and destroy targets as a team will be a huge 'force multiplier'.
When the war breaks out with China, we will be able to call on a lot of reservist pilots who are intimately familiar with the F-15.
I've heard the chat GPT is gonna take over the world before that. I'm already being very polite to Alexa, just in case
@@pccunha You shouldn't own an alexa to begin with
@@JPROP-vb7sv so you take care, I'll tell Alexa you're harassing me eh
@@JPROP-vb7sv youre 100% right. I work in cyber security at Mandiant. Every damn time i show someone all the permissions and background data exchanged via apps, voice control systems etc they get infuriated saying shit like oh hell no they cant do that, my response is always yes, yes they can, how? By that lovely tos box you checked and agreed to.
As a social experiment years ago someone made a run of the mill horoscope app (incredibly popular for stupid reasons) and guess what they put it in the tos?
You promise to give "x" company your first born child, if you do not yet have a child, you promise to give the child to mentioned company upon discharge from hospital.
You also agree if you do not ever have children, to pay an unspecified amount in dollars, tbd at a later date.
You also agree to give x company 75% of your annual income in perpetuity
i could go on with more of what it said but you get the picture. 1000s of people downloaded the app and agreed to the tos without reading it. Aside from the children which would of been an insane court battle 😂 the income agreement would of been fully enforceable dude. People have no clue what they're agreeing to 🤣
Hopefully!😮
The prototype F-15 is over 50 years old! The fact this thing is still relevant is massively impressive! You know you designed a winner when the production line outlives you. I was born in the 80's and the possibility of not living long enough to see this thing retire is very real even though the original flew before I was born. And that's not even factoring midlife upgrades and who knows what new capabilities being pushed into it 20 years from now.
The fact that its still the top dog some 50 years later is saying how good the engineers that designed the airplane. McDonald Douglas out did themselves.
Well said! I was born in 78. My uncle is gone by out lived by the B-52 but he's come to terms with it lol.
This is how I felt about the B-52 when I enlisted. My grandfather was a tail gunner on the B-52 during Operation Chrome Dome and Vietnam. He flew on every model except the H model. I felt if I would have flown or worked on those airframes I could possibly have been on the same airframe as my grandfather.
makes me wonder why the F16 or the F22 are irrelevant now compared to this.
Is it impressive, or an act of desperation? I think desperation. The fact that the F-22 is already being prepped for pasture, but a 50-year old design upgrade is being co-opted from foreign interests isn't very confidence-inspiring. Our leadership has failed in positioning us in the best place possible, and our aging fleet is testament to that. We have no real plan for the present or the future.
Ryan, what is really amazing is in 1986 while my best friend and I were flying helos at Ft Rucker, my best friend's brother was at Eglin flying the F-15. For this airframe to still be relevant 30-plus years later.
Ft Rucker??? I never meet anyone from Ft Rucker... I was a US Army Combat Medic, I was at Ft Rucker from 88 to 90, then after Desert Storm went to Ft Sam Houston, and the to Panama to Ft. Sherman. ETS 02/10/1996. Earned my Airborne wings at Ft Campbell with the 101st and my Air Assault wings at Ft Rucker. Took many rides in Blackhawks. WHOOOORAAAAAH #army
NOMADS and Test Wing. 💥
I remember stepping into a brand new F 4E (2 hours on it) in 1970. I was told it cost $4 M. I was blown away.
I would have loved to have had a chance to fly the F-4. But as I was finishing UPT, they were being phased out.
I was part of the team getting the engine proposal done. What a great time during those days in the early 70's!
F 22 was initially planned to Replace F 15s but it's now amazing to see that F 22 will retire soon while F 15 is still in the service. F 15 is truly irreplaceable.
The F22 wont retire soon. The F35 isnt a good place. Not unless the US has a plane better than the F22 its not going anywhere.
@@nissan300ztt yes they are but there getting replaced by a upgraded f-22
@@captainc9977 That's not a replacement. That's an upgrade.
@@captainc9977 upgraded f22 is still an f22
Until NGAD shows up.
The F-15 is a proven , undefeated fighter that has dominated for FIFTY years! And this comes from a former Naval aviator. Amazing plane and design in all it's variants.
Don't you think its had its day? its obsolete
@Leonsmail air to air, yes, 100% the F-15EX is still relevant. Only thing that can kill one is air defense systems, not air to air platforms. Still easily compares 1:1 with the J-20 imo. Can quite literally fly and land with 1 wing...😂.
@@LeonAust The F-15EX will be a missile truck to complement the F-22 and the F-35. The F-22 and the F-35 will paint targets for the F-15EX, which will launch it's missiles from standoff range, well beyond the reach of enemy air defense systems. It will be one member of an extremely lethal team.
@@classicgalactica5879 I think you nailed it Galactica, the EX isn't better or worse then the F35, they are two different beasts. The F22 will probably escort F35's into contested airspace while the EX stays at a safe distance waiting to launch it's literal truckload of Hypersonic and other Long Distance missiles at the targets being fed to it by the F35, it's my understanding the EX could launch missiles into the airspace without a lock and the F-35 can slave them to itself and direct them once in range, which is just nuts. No disrespect to Max as he is a actual fighter pilot and I'm a keyboard warrior, so I know nothing really but sometimes I think it's easy to have a mentality of one has to be better then the other but it's clear the Air Force and Military in general are using multiple platforms with multiple strengths interconnected as closely as possible to act as the ultimate force multiplier. The EX couldn't just roll up into Chinese airspace and achieve Air Supremacy on it's own, the F15 never faced a country with missile defense systems on par with it's own, which China reportedly has and alot of military planning and doctrine considers China to be the next biggest threat to the US and it's Allies.
B-52 was first flown in 1954 and was a update from the B-47 which was built/flown in the Korean War. My dad helped build B-47's as well as F-86's, F-101's, F-4's and F-15's. He worked in aircraft industry from 1952 to 1976.
I was an Eagle Keeper on F-15C/Ds for a few years. It was honestly the best time I had working on an airframe. The rest of my time was spent on heavies. I was honestly surprised when the Air Force picked up the EX when they rejected the SE before. TBH getting zero hour F-15s was needed and this puts it ahead in the ball game of other legacy jets flying enemy or friendly. They took what made the F-15 win before and gave it the tools to keep winning. The 22 was suppose to retire the 15 and the 22s are losing 33 jets. At least they got 1 splash during their service. 103 more splashes to go.
The SE was an awful, overly expensive concept that provided neither stealth nor much in the way of internal ordnance. It wasn't practical. The F-22, like the F-14, was a victim of politicians and lobbyists who were dead-set against it. I never heard anyone seriously suggest that the F-14D (and proposed future upgrades) had inferior capability to the F-18, but it was canceled and its production tooling was destroyed to make sure it would never be made again (similarly, some critical pieces of the F-22's tooling were found to be missing from storage). And likewise, no one would actually be willing to go up against an F-22 in the best F-15 unless they wanted to die. Honestly, which would you choose? No ejection seats allowed, so the loser dies. The F-15 has more kills, and that supposedly makes it superior, right? Well, the P-51 has a lot more kills than the F-15, which supposedly makes the P-51 superior. I have nothing against the F-15, but decisions don't always get made for the right or even relevant reasons.
@@rbrtck I didn't say that in reqard to how they perform. I said that because usually the Air Force tries to get the newest bells a whistles over an older airframe with a proven record. Which brings us to the record. The F-22 doesn't have a combat record and the F-15 has an actual record of 104-0. Even with 3rd party operators it still hasn't been shot down by another aircraft. Its combat record isn't the be all end all, but it does tell you how well a system operates in combat. Simulated battles and the test range are completely different from the battlefield. War has a way of telling you whether your system works well or not. It'll bring out all of the faults your system has. Which is why I don't like the F-35 and it's parade of white fuel trucks because it can't take hot fuel. You strawmanned my point hard there.
The f22 is a better plane then the f15 hands down. Its not even a contest.
@@erichvonmanstein6876 The Tiger was a better tank than the Sherman, but which one won the war?
@@xV0LK0Vx niether. Allied air and Naval power (mostly US) and American lend lease won the war.
Lovely chatting to you after a long time 😊. Great video, informative, entertaining & concise. The content just gets better !
As an employee of GE Aviation here in Cincinnati, I’d like to say…let’s talk about those new engines in the EX! Another great video sir!
I like that you mentioned B-52 being old as hell but still does the job lol. It blows my mind to think that the original B-52 airframe was made the same year as 1950s vintage cars, designed probably even earlier than that. Technology has reached a point where we might see some equipment stay in service for almost a century
the tail number tells you what year it rolled off the line. 0003 = 3rd frame produced in 1960 1024 = twenty fourth frame rolled in 1961 everything inside with the exception of the engines has been retooled on a staged cadence. engines and power generation is coming in the next 4-6 years.
The design philosophy (at least for comercial stuff) is much diffirent than it was in the 50s 60s , they didnt have computers back then so everything was overengineered , nowadays with sims and computers we design stuff to exactly last as long as we need it , or make it modular so we can replace things .F-22 was designed and built much later but its obsolete now , the F-35 was designed as a modular design and it will probably be in service for a long time
Ma Duce (M-2)is in service for over 90 years and will be for a while to come.
Great take on the EX. Retired USAF here and what a great channel. Thanks for continuing to represent the Air Force. You've got a new subscriber.
Great overview. I'm not a fighter pilot, but a weekend warrior in a Cessna, Piper or sometimes a Gulfstream , but I love those those fighters. Thank you for sharing your overview of the F-15EX, which is my favorite jet.
Oh this is why you gotta make it on time for the premiere. Missed the first 2min so I didn't know this was your cockpit footage. Awesome!
Thanks for making this video and distilling down the reasoning for adding these aircraft to the inventory. Also the in cockpit videos are amazing!
Eagle for life! F-15 crew chief here . My favorite to work on/with out of the "other" fighters. Loved our missions and the job satisfaction of keeping these babies in the air was significant!
I have a question for you. I don't know much about the process for becoming a fighter pilot and I'm curious about something...
Let's say a kid wants to be a F-35 pilot and is applying to the army, are they going to start by training him on a small Cessna first or they're going straight to the F-35, or is there like a "ladder" of planes they generally get trained on before reaching the F-35?
@@Reth_Hard the army doesn't fly F-35s. Only the USAF, USMC & USN. And in all flight training, they start small - usually with a basic prop plane and go up from there. There's zero chance of a trainee pilot starting with the F-35. They'd lose them all in crashes. Plus the F-35 is single seat only & trainers are 2 seat (for student & instructor).
@@321fightson
Like I said, I don't know much about the US military! lol
TBH, I don't even live in the US.
I always thought the USAF, USMC & USN were all different sections of the US army, but apparently that's not the case?
And do you know which planes a trainee would usually need to fly before reaching something more "serious" like the F-35?
@@Reth_Hard another example would be USN vs USAF pilots. Navy pilots need to learn how to land on and take off from a carrier (the USAF don't do this) so they do part of their training with the T-45 Goshawk - a carrier-ready jet), and USAF pilots are usually flying the T-38 Talon (and/or their new trainer the T-7 Redhawk). Helicopter pilots fly different training aircraft again. It's not a one-size-fits-all answer due to the different needs of each branch and the different roles pilots will end up training for.
@@321fightson do fighter pilots get to choose what they will fly? Or is it assigned to them( this is speaking if they already have good experience) ? Also thank you for your service
My youngest brother spent 26 years in the Air Force maintaining F15 engines. Another awesome US aircraft design that refuses to retire, much less die.
Max this was a terrific breakdown! Would it be too much to educate us on SEAD capabilities, concepts, and application. For those of us who will never experience flying like you all, this is a God send.💯
May be classified...but could a stealth aircraft like the F22 or F35 be used to spot targets for a support group of F15EXs? If so it would be insane to see the stealth planes work with the higher payload of the EX. Or I guess the stealth aircraft kick down the doors then you have a large fleet of high capability planes like the EX to come in right after the initial engagement. I love the idea of them supporting the next gen fighters with up to date F15s.
F-15EXs acting as missile carriers for F-35s is something I have heard talked about by others. F-35 would be much closer, using it's stealth and advanced sensors to provide information for the Eagle II over datalink, while the Eagle II lobs missiles without having to get close enough where it's lack of stealth could put it at risk of being shot down.
Yes it can act as missile truck artillery for stealth fighter spotters. What is less well known is that the F-15EX radar is extremely capable and could wind up doing the spotting for other fighters, even stealth fighters in some cases.
It might be classified but the idea itself is pretty known. The F-15 would probably make a decent missile truck. I'd prefer using something like a C-130 if only because they should theoretically be able to carry a LOT more missiles, but admittedly F-15's, by virtue of speed alone would probably be far more responsive.
This is not classified. This is the doctrine being advanced as the F22/35s simply don't have enough internal payload to perform the job against a numerically superior enemy. Only the F15-EX has the speed and payload to get close enough to hang back from forward stealth fighters, to launch missiles based on forward target lock. A C130 has higher payload but couldn't egress from an area of danger fast enough, nor could it keep up with the stealth fighters going in to acquire targets.
That’s exactly the plan.
Thanks for an another awesome video❗Love the channel 💯
Good work friend. I was engaged with the video start to finish. Which is rare.
Great video, really enjoyed your perspective on the EX vs 5th gen fighters. Your videos are amazing!
Awesome video! Thanks for creating and sharing! 🙂
I love the air-frame lasts 4x longer, more flight hours. When I first heard that a few years ago I thought that was a BIG selling point. Ya know, other than the other upgrades he talked about. It's a reliable platform, battle tested. I'd like to see what the EX can do in the future, especially if it has better engines. . . Wonder if they will have thrust vectoring at all?
I bet you have a trove of great videos from the cockpit…hope to see those!
Loved the video mate. Please consider making a whole series for dcs on the F15!
I love the F-15. Every version. Its simply a prince amongst men. These days it doesn't get the press it used to but make no mistake about it, it is still a lethal weapons platform that our enemies fear. I hope and expect it will continue to demonstrate its dominance in the air and effectiveness across fulfilling different roles. I've never said this about a machine before but it must be said, the F-15 does all this and its one sexy looking plane.
it doesnt get the press because its just become a normal to hear that F-15 won another battles. The press just like a bombastic news not a recurring good news. Typical of news agents today i think. I never think F-15 will be retired anytime soon considering the closest rival is F-35 and it's still in shambles with all the problems it currently has.
Awesome video! Great work! 👊🏼
It's great hearing "the best offense is a good defense" getting traction. It's absolutely as true as the traditional version.
Just found ur channel and I love ur work sir.
Excellent Presentation.
I have no questions - you covered all areas of my interest and then some.
Thanks for sharing.
Excellent update, Max team. Ryan, thank you for your service to our country, sir.
Great video. My dad was in the AF , is a Vietnam vet. I was born at Cannon AFB hospital. The F-15 is among my top 10 favorite jets. #1 is the SR-71A Black Bird. After that I have a real hard time deciding the order for the rest of the planes. The Eagles are probably in the top 5 though. The KC series is in the top 10 for sure. I feel the AF can have The F-22's , F-35's , F-15's , F-16's , A-10's and other planes.
F-14s & F-15s are the airframes of my childhood and I need no arm bending to convince me they're a good idea for modernization. F-16X is also enticing because it is also an all-time great airframe
My favorite concept of “multirole” is when, like this machine, it isn’t literally multirole like the F-16 but is instead like legos where you can add and remove parts that give it different specializations. This lets it be configured to be a master of whatever you need but otherwise treat it and its pilots as if they were different, specialized planes. So, you get the same results as having multiple different aircraft but far cheaper and it makes changing how many of what specialty you have far easier on industry, maintenance, supply, and training for pilots and ground crew.
A couple of f22, a couple of f35, and a couple of f15ex working together would be one formadable team. A f15ex with tons of fox 3s has an enormous stand off capability.
Holy cow I would have loved to have worked on this beast! I worked on late 70s/early 80s, APG-63 C-models in Desert Storm. They were challenging due to the very limited self-diagnostics...you had to really be on your troubleshooting game. Not only that, but the electronic components weighed a ton due to the large semiconductor sizes of the time. You hit the gym or suffered. I remember when we were deployed to Saudi, both of the new E squadrons from Seymour Johnson were there too. We had a friend who had just transferred from our squadron to SJ and he gave us a tour of the E. We could see a van's fan turning against its hot radiator with the FLIR system...science fiction at the time! The EX must be jaw-dropping. Anyway, at 22 I didn't realize how cool my job was...but I do now and I'd gladly do it again at almost 60! : )
Very informative, thank you.
Great video bud! I really enjoyed learning about it… I think I heard a few moan and grown about this being a too cost affective way to go and they were taken but not truely well received… I think they are Badass!!
Great video. Such insights.
That would be awesome to have Max "Afterburner" as your commercial pilot
Hey!!! You are approaching 100K subscribers!!! I remember when I subscribed you had like 90. 😀
Awesome thanks!!
It is still 4th gen, stands little chance against the 22 or 35. It will have to stay well away from the advanced anti air. But working in tandem with stealth, they will rule the skys.
Great video! Have you flown the Mach Loop in Wales or the Rainbow Canyon?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge,experience and passion about these planes. I’m excited about the tactics that will be created using both stealth and the loud and proud. Every illusionist use both distractions and slight of hand on stage. I’m sure our aviators are pulling off some real magic tricks with this combo.
The only mistake they made with the EX is calling it the Eagle II instead of the Super Eagle
I believe the reason is because there’s already a version called the Super Eagle, but I can’t remember.
Well said, we just need to update our Gen 4s and have a few Day 1 silky smooth LO SCAR birds. Once the element of surprise is over, it's time to dig in. I hope there is a Super Hog in the works as well to support the additional CAS missions. However, the AT-6 and Super Tucano are probably cheaper options already developed.
Thanks for the breakdown Max-I was curious as to the hype behind this aircraft-now I'm smarter.
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love the pic of chase young sacking cam newton. very cool!!
It even has an engine control system upgrade. 4,500lbs more thrust than the F-15E.
4500 more lbs of thrust is pretty insane considering how powerful the E is.
As if it was not powerful enough before. Amazing.
Will be interesting to see what the thrust to weight ratio is without the conformal fuel tanks.
Should definitely be able to supercruise then I'm assuming.
Hi just came across your channel. Would love to hear your thoughts on whether the omission of vectored thrust capability was a missed opportunity for the f15ex?
You do communicate to the max. Your personality afterburns. Enjoyed your presentation.
Wow bro if the previous F15 versions the screen were so small that the pilots had to use maps to see the screen and it was so versatile... And it still is versatile.. and now that it has been up graded to a larger screen what to say about it... My My, My.. Awesome...
I don't think you mentioned it, but they also increased the payload of the EX even higher than the already absurd payload of the old Eagle. In addition to being way cheaper per hour to fly than an F35, it also has like 40% more payload. Basically it does everything but stealth. But if he has any problems, I'm sure there's a raptor around somewhere, not that anyone could find it.
My Wing was just assigned the EX over the F-35, I am personally happy about it. It just makes sense for my Wing and for homeland defense/bomber interception. (Plus it has a back seat for this Photog can go up often! Well, if I am still around by the time we get them.)
The EX can also use the outer wing weapons mounts too right? Seen an article about that recently.
Ahhh man im so glad i found your channel and this video! I absolutely frickin love the F15. While in Afghanistan, we had 2 of those babies for CAS and ever since i just cherish this aircraft! Definitely subscribed!
Right on! Glad to have you here!
So enjoy your videos Ryan. You are a stud. The fact the F-15 made it home in Israel on one wing is a compelling testimony to the airframe and flight envelope. So glad to see us do what we are doing with it. Might an opportunity exist with the F-16 to do something similar? Did you publish your specs that you're running for DCS hardware? Being lazy here to ask and not go dig.
IDF actually rebuilt that One Wing f15. And used it.
Do you think they should have canted the vertical wings like the Silent Eagle? Reduce the radar cross section a bit?
When I was growing up around Edwards Air Force Base, watching the F-15 change shapes throughout the years.
Did you spend any time at Edwards?
I noticed the Thunderbird memorabilia, did you fly for the Thunderbird's? Where were you stationed?
Great info on the EX!
Thanks!
Max - the APG-70 was head and shoulders above the APG-63 from the A-D model. And don't get me started about the difference between the old Litton IMU compared to the RLG INS's. - Tom
Great video
I loved this video! I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath when the F-111's were there but now the F-15's. I watch video's on that base everyday and just love it. It brings back great memories but with a much better aircraft stationed there now, the F-15 flying with LN on the tail, love it! Once again, I Loved the video and will be watching more! Thank you!
C models aren't there anymore. Sad to see them go!
Been waiting for this....
Stoked to share!
Hey, AB; What platform is providing the Weasel mission these days? I assume the 35 and the 22 are "supposed" to provide their own, due to their stealth.
The biggest problem I see with the F-15EX and its effectiveness, is the lack of a missile similar to the British/European Meteor (the AIM-260 is still under development). Current top line US missiles are somewhat long in the tooth and developed to a point where they can't push it much further. Also, the US is unlikely to gain access to Meteor, unless they can sweeten the deal a whole lot more! Currently the Meteor is the best performing missile by quite a considerable margin. Another problem is that Meteor is somewhat larger than some US missiles and might not fit the US planes without conversion.
F-22 and JSF have external hard points and could carry as well.
destroys the stealh aspect
What’s the point of the expensive stealth design, stealth design compromises & insane maintenance costs then?
@@411bvRGiskard If you have better radar and missiles enemy will; still be dead before they see you or can fire.
Just watched this video just after the DCS debrief of the F-15C vs MiG-29's and it just always makes my heart beat faster seeing that F-15's classic planform in action. So glad that they're restarting the production of this great aircraft. I was an F-15C Crewchief from '91 to 2010 then an A-10C Crewchief from 2010-2013. The F-15 has always been close to my heart and always will be. Nobody came to me for what should be changed for maintenance day-to-day when they decided to start production again XD...but I'd change the starting system a bit and get an electric canopy instead of the hydraulic system for the canopy. Just a couple of 'quality of life' changes were needed...just IMHO. Great to see them go with GE engines as those are probably better overall for maintenance as well as the greater thrust for the pilots.
will you make a video about flying the f15e in dcs when it gets released?
Was at the Abbotsford airshow this year and they had a F-15. The pure power and maneuverability was still very impressive.
My cousin was always pushing for the EX model. He always said his favorite plane to fly was the F15E.
What’s up with the Robin Olds ‘stache????
Great vids!!!!
So as a Air Force Flight Engineer, how many times do you have to redo certain sections because you accidentally say something classified? Running sensors in the back of aircraft I feel for WSO's. But with love WSO's are glorified Special Missions Aviators, those are not my words but a SMA who commissioned as a WSO. I got do flight testing on the new radar and it was amazing.
Looking forward to seeing these at PDX soon! Very informative thank you. Go Redhawks!
F-15 is already a beast, I forget who's story it was they said that the F-15 pulled a double vertical maneuver, and they couldn't follow it.
The payload of the F-15EX could be paired with an F-35 and provide enough air to air munitions for the two to potentially take down 20 enemy aircraft. The Eagle hangs back, as the F-35 selects targets.
@ 2:50 where you flying at? also, how does the F-15EX do the whole air superiority thing like the F-15C? From what little Ive seen, the F-15E cant even dogfight, but having worked at boeing for a while now nobody has explained to me how well this aircraft is supposed to fly compared to the C. For the record, Im working on the MQ-25A assembly line right next to the F-15EX final assembly line in STL and I see these things daily.
Video on the crop duster? AT-802u? Love to get your opinion
From a CAS aspect
Hey Max, Love The F-15 my favorite of all time. thanks for the video.
I never flew um but I spent time in the seat dreaming, 11yr ECM tech at Nellis, ALQ-131, chaff/flare systems. Early 80s.
Tuned in for the jet, overwhelmed by the mustache. Perfect. General Robin Olds would be proud
Great talk. Fascinating. From Ireland.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bro, I’m pretty sure that Yosemite Sam mustache is unsat. You rebel
Your ‘stache is a great tribute to the legendary Robin Olds ✌️
Ryan I hope you (or any Eagle Keepers and F15 pilots) read this because I am very curious. With a 25 meter radar cross section and missiles slung underneath, the Eagle 2 is not sneaking up on anybody. How difficult would it be (and is it worth it) to angle the vertical stabilizers on the new Eagle in order to reduce the radar return? The F15 Silent Eagle concept did this and with its conformal internal weapon bays, you could have a Silent Eagle loadout too. I'm sure the "speed to buy" in order to get this jet to the squadrons as quickly as possible probably negated this vertical stabilizer modification at this time. But with 20,000 flight hours on these new F15's, maybe they will modify a few into Silent Eagles in the future. Love the channel!!!
Wish they would Kathy vertical stabs a little bit like the stealth version was slated to get about 12 years ago. But it's a wonderful upgrade got the last. Woke up a little bit more capability, it will be a Gen 4 plus if not a Gen 5 + platform. One of the planes that I was rated in avionics for
i thought the EX had angled vertical stabilizers for stealth advantages (Edit: sorry that is the SE silent eagle)
A US military aircraft channel posted pics of the thunderbirds so I posted your channel name in the comments so everyone liking the photo posted could come sub. Hope it works. I did that a bunch for CW LeMoine too and his channels growing like crazy so hope I helped that. I jsut want to support our veteran channels to say Thankyou for your service.
4:11 where is this footage taken? Southern utah ?
What happens when the F15 EX comes up against an F35 or Raptor 5th gen plane. No doubt the very best 4+ generation plan ever. But with 5th generation craft out there is it going to survive??
Was impressive to watch these take off, go vertical and Immelman when we were at Luke. Long live the Eagle.
My father flew p40,p38 and p51 in ww2 what he said about the p51 was the cockpit was laid out perfect he never had to take his eyes off the target.
Sounds like the open systems architecture could evolve into having a ground-based WSO instead of a back seater.
Nice, subbing. 😉
Can CFTs be jettisoned like drop tanks in flight if necessary? Just curious...
Are the differences in the EX just in electronics other than the new engines? Like is this new version more maneuverable than the previous ones? Any idea how much faster the new engines are?
Seriously as far as the f-35 they may want to keep all of its air to air battles at BVR, but I think any advanced adversaries are going to do whatever it takes to get within visual range. They may keep it at BVR most of the time but I don't see it being that way a hundred percent of the time.
I'm curious how things will play out if you have two similar stealth aircraft fighting against each other.
25 years in, still going strong. Worked at Edwards doing flight test for a while. I’ve flown fam flights in F16 and F15. It seemed to ruin the pilots day when they had to fly the D models for a sortie 😂