My son is a USAF pilot, and he thinks it’s a great idea. It can carry a ton of missiles. He did a special study on it, for class presentation, while he was in OTS.
Exactly.
Each F-15EX can carry nearly 30,000 pounds of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons. The F-35 can only carry 5,700 pounds, according to F-35 manufacturer Lockheed-Martin.
Comparing this to WWII, The B-17 Flying Fortress had a 4,000-pound bomb load, typical for long missions, though the B-17 could carry up to 8,000 pounds internally for shorter distances at lower altitudes.
The F-15 can also carry the B-61 nuclear bomb. The Mod 12 variant of the B-61 was just released.
I know a particular country's leadership has been threatening to use nukes recently, but a raid with a squadron of F-117's providing wild weasel strikes followed by F-15EX with Mod 12 would really prove that to be the world's worst threat ever.