What You Need to Know: The F-15EX Eagle II, America’s newest advanced fighter, owes its origins to the F-15SE Silent Eagle, a “fourth-generation-plus” design conceived as a stealthier evolution of the ...

Though military aircraft are designed to serve a range of roles, from troop and equipment transport to air-to-ground assaults and surveillance duties, all of these duties become harder to perform ...

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said it has applied for an export license to sell a stealthy variant of its F-15 fighter jet to South Korea, which is expected to release terms of a ...

Delivery of the first operational F-15EX fighter to the US Air Force (USAF) this month marked a major milestone for manufacturer Boeing, being the first time in more than two decades that the company ...

With two GE [F110-GE-]229 engines putting out 29,500 pounds of thrust each, a clean F-15EX can reach Mach 2.9. Boeing’s BA latest version of the storied F-15 Eagle, the F-15EX Eagle II, can reach ...

Totally Obsolete?: The F-15 Eagle, a fourth-generation fighter first introduced in the 1970s, has been America’s premier air superiority jet, securing 34 of the USAF’s 37 kills over the past four ...

The F-15 Eagle entered service with the United States Air Force in 1979, and is still used by the U.S. and its many allies. The fighter is an export aircraft, and many countries operate F-15 jets in ...