Yes and they are awesome. The F22 is what we would send if we were serious as that is THE air superiority plane.
To me this sounds like politics because Barry famously had the 22 removed from an Airbase appearance as a backdrop for his speech and replaced by...An F15. Since he opposed it as a senator.
Or he is hoping Russia downs the 15s to humiliate us.
Equally stupid as a 15 is still a world above their best.
So I go with politics.
Agreed. If they were REALLY expecting an air-to-air fight, you’d think they’d deploy the F-22.
OTOH, our socialist dear leader is all about humiliating the U.S. in front of the rest of the world...
F-15s won’t have very high survivability if they go up against Russian S-400s.
“Yes and they are awesome. The F22 is what we would send if we were serious as that is THE air superiority plane.”
Im not even convinced of that. The 15 is supposedly beatable by a 22 on a given day, IF the O2 system on the 22 is working, etc.
The 15 has a reputation of dead balls on reliability and hasn’t been beaten yet in air to air combat.