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F-15 Silent Eagle scores two firsts with export license, flight test
Flight Global ^
| 7/8/2010
| Stephen Trimble
Posted on 07/09/2010 4:14:08 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Boeing on 8 July received a license to export the F-15 Silent Eagle to South Korea and tested in flight one of the key upgrades for the stealthy new design.
"It was a big week for the F-15," says Brad Jones, Boeing director for F-15 development programmes.
The US Department of State awarded the license after a two-month review based on an undisclosed export policy established in May, Jones says.
South Korea is expected to issue a request for proposals for the F-X3 contract in the first quarter of 2011, Jones says.
The F-15SE will compete with the Lockheed Martin F-35 and Eurofighter Typhoon for the contract.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; avionics; boeing; departmentofstate; f15; f15e1; f15se; flighttest; fx3; silenteagle; skorea; southkorea; statedepartment; upgrade
To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; Mr. Mojo; James C. Bennett; mowowie; Captain Beyond; darkwing104; JRios1968; ...
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
07/09/2010 4:18:25 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: Army Air Corps; hennie pennie
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
07/09/2010 4:21:30 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: mgstarr
LOL
THey left out the 20mm gun. Every fight pilot wants a gun.
Needs it actually....
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posted on
07/09/2010 4:46:41 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Things are not always as they appear, ask the dog chasing the car)
To: sonofstrangelove
This is a fast and cheap way to add firepower and NUMBERS to our existing fleet of aircraft.
I'm glad the line will remain open. This is still a great, proven aircraft. With all the modern avionics, it's still deadly too.
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posted on
07/09/2010 4:53:26 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
07/09/2010 5:05:42 PM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: Mariner
These should be replacing any of our current F-15s right now.
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posted on
07/09/2010 5:27:06 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Secret Agent Man
I’d love to replace 60 tired F-15As with these. Similarly, I’d love an extra 180 F-22s over the next 15 years. The problem is that the initial cost would be 6 billion for the Silent Eagles and 27 billion for the F-22s. That doesn’t count maintenance, spare parts etc or another 50%. Do you have an extra 50 Billion laying around? Don’t asnwer that. The Democrat Congress will spend it on windmills.
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posted on
07/09/2010 6:42:05 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just a liberals who lies.)
To: ASOC
Maybe so, but the A2A capabiltity on this bird is secondary. This is a strike aircraft as the name implies. It may be giving up a bit in the perfomance area to protect those compressor intakes from radar.
Probably more a replacement for the F-15E than the F-15A/C.
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posted on
07/09/2010 6:49:13 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Tallguy
Maybe so, but the A2A capabiltity on this bird is secondary. This is a strike aircraft as the name implies. It may be giving up a bit in the perfomance area to protect those compressor intakes from radar. Those are AIM-120s in the conformal fuel tank/internal weapons storage, not JDAMs.
If you were going to be in a dogfight, would you rather be in an F-15E or an F-35A?
The F/A-18E/F SuperHornet found a way to add RAM coated louvers in the intake path without sacrificing performance.
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posted on
07/09/2010 7:11:39 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
The F/A-18E/F SuperHornet found a way to add RAM coated louvers in the intake path without sacrificing performance.Interesting tidbit. Thanks!
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:47:00 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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