F-15E flies with new radar system

USAF News ^ | 1/21/2011 | USAF News

[DemforBush]

Good deal.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[GAB-1955]

This is the radar designed to pick up the Chengdu J-20.

[GAB-1955]

This is the radar designed to pick up the Chengdu J-20.

[hosepipe]

The U.S. should upgrade the A-10... with stealth and avionics.. and maybe VTOL versions..

[freedumb2003]

How can you post about the most beautiful milcraft ever and not post her picture? Have you no decency, sir???

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I am sorry. I will make a promise to evryone. When I post a F-15 story, I will post a F-15 picture. I always keep my promise.

[freedumb2003]

The U.S. should upgrade the A-10... with stealth and avionics.. and maybe VTOL versions..

Any guy who sees an A10 and doesn't have a, uh, visceral reaction, isn't a guy.

When an airframe gets the job done, come up with a better one or just build and enhance what works! They ain't done the former so they should do the latter.

[freedumb2003]

LOL! I am just following you around today showing people what you are talking about!

And it is my honor to do so, but I can’t always be there... Looking forward to your next F-15 thread :)

[yarddog]

That is a beautiful airplane. I noticed the “ET” designation on one many years ago at an airshow at Eglin. There were quite a few pilots at static displays who would converse with the public.

I told one that I knew that “EG” meant Eglin but what did “ET” mean. He said it was not extra terrestrial, but “Eglin Test”.

[Randy Larsen]

The a-10 is my favorite aircraft...Oh so deadly to tanks!

[Orbiter]

If kill were nimble and could fly it’d look like the A-10.

[Mariner]

I would gladly trade 100 F-35s for 300 brand new, upgraded F-15Cs.

It would STILL be the most effective air-superiority fighter in the world. Their current, unchallenged record is ~110 to 0.

Most pilots are smart enough to not come out against them.

[Kickass Conservative]

The idiots destroyed the tooling.

I guess we’ll just have to do it the Chinese / Russian way and copy our own design to make a brand new A-10.

[Yo-Yo]

We have more than enough A-10s, and with the new avionics upgrades, making them A-10Cs, they will be around for a very long time.

[Kickass Conservative]

You can never have enough A-10’s. LOL

[Yo-Yo]

When we were looking at 5,000 Soviet tanks rolling across West Germany, I agree.

Nowadays, 350 is enough.

[Kickass Conservative]

Yeah, but I want one for myself.

I thought we only had about half that amount in service. I think a lot of them are assigned to NG Units. Would those get the upgrades as well?

[spetznaz]

The U.S. should upgrade the A-10... with stealth and avionics.. and maybe VTOL versions..

They did that. It is called the F-35.

Far more capable, and more importantly, far more survivable than any A-10. A-10s are great, particular in anti-tank, but against a modern adversary (that doesn't consider camels a major mode of transportation and RPGs an accessory) they are simply not survivable. A cold war FReeper stated some time back that in the Fulda Gap they were not expected to survive (and some story about who was expected to last longer between A-10 and AH-64 Apache pilots).

If one 'upgrades' the A-10 with stealth and avionics, you end up with the F-35A and C. You add STOVL you get the B version. The F-35 still needs some good amount of work, but the A-10 couldn't be used against any country with a real ability to defend itself.