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Boeing unveils upgraded F-15 Silent Eagle with fifth-generation features
www.flightglobal.com ^
| 17/03/09
| Stephen Trimble
Posted on 03/17/2009 1:43:19 PM PDT by Freeport
Boeing today unveiled a new F-15 prototype aimed at the international market with such "fifth-generation" add-ons as radar absorbent coatings, internal weapons carriage and integrated digital avionics, plus featuring a distinctive V-tail.
Improving the fourth generation fighters profile on air-to-air radar is Boeings key goal for the F-15SE, which the company plans to offer to five foreign countries with an estimated market for 190 orders.
Radar absorbent materials added to leading edges are designed to soften the F-15SEs head-on radar signature. Canting both horizontal stabilizers by 15 degrees is intended to reduce radar returns to the side.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: aerospace; eagle; f15; f15se; iran; israel
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To: 1010RD
*shrug*
Same difference....:)
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04/18/2009 6:01:08 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
To: Jet Jaguar; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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04/18/2009 6:32:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Freeport
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After designing and building the worlds first operational AESA fighter radarthe APG-63(V)2 for the F-15C, first fielded in 2000, Raytheon has continuously developed and refined its AESA technology. The culmination of this journey is the new F-15 and F/A-18 radarsthe worlds only and most advanced air-to-air, air-to-surface multimode AESA radars in production. |
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posted on
04/19/2009 2:39:43 AM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: Armedanddangerous
I know, I was comparing it to the F-15 as a thing of beauty.
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posted on
04/19/2009 7:11:54 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
they are purty..ain’t they? I get goose bumps whenever I see one at an air show..
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posted on
04/19/2009 9:20:24 AM PDT
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Armedanddangerous
(I think you're so full of inconsolable rage, you don't care who you hurt.)
To: Eye of Unk
Is that a modified B-52? Interesting looking plane there.
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posted on
04/19/2009 10:13:59 AM PDT
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Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
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