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AIRCRAFT THE AMAZING F-15EX-Eagle-II Megaprojects: The F-15EX Eagle II: How and Why the F-15 Got Unbelievably Good PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIREaQXIB9s Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
The F-15EX Eagle II: How and Why the F-15 Got Unbelievably Good Megaprojects 1.25M subscribers 17K 420,720 views Jul 10, 2024 Simon's Social Media: Twitter: / simonwhistler Instagram: / simonwhistler This video is #sponsored by Keeps. Love content? 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its disposal both with globally unmatched capabilities the F-15 still manages to keep Pace yet for all its combat glory for all its critical Acclaim the F-15 still manages to keep one special secret that despite still sharing its shape and size with a plane that existed 50 years ago the F15 of today is an entirely different Beast than its outwardly identical but far more Antiquated carbon copy and right now as we speak a new iteration of the 1:00 F15 is rolling off the production line for the very first time poised to become one of the very best weapons of America's wartime Arsenal this is the story of the Boeing F-15 ex Eagle 2 the successor aircraft meant to take the Reigns from the F-15 Eagle and push America's Air Force to newer and Greater Heights just before we continue with today's video I want to tell you about something there been a game changer for so many guys out there but not for me cuz I am super bold and that is keeps now look as I just said I already Bal but some of you 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3:11 that aren't really all that behind the 3:14 scenes the United States tends to 3:16 respond not by trying to get a look at 3:18 the thing but by engineering a bigger 3:20 batter platform as their answer in this 3:22 case it was the Mig 25 foxbat 3:24 Interceptor aircraft out of Russia 3:26 boasting extreme high speeds at high 3:28 altitude and convincing American that it 3:30 was about to be outclassed the answer 3:31 was the first generation F-15 and while 3:34 the foxbat turned out to be a bit of a 3:35 dud the F-15 it didn't boasting maximum 3:39 speeds at two and a half times the speed 3:41 of sound flying at over twice the 3:43 altitude of a modern-day commercial 3:44 airliner and capable of carrying enough 3:46 ordinance to make a contemporary Soviet 3:48 pilot just eject and save himself the 3:50 dog fight the eagle was a crowning 3:52 achievement for the United States in the 3:54 half century Long Cold War fast forward 3:56 another half century though and the 3:58 problems that led to the eagle to 4:00 weren't quite So Glamorous by that time 4:02 in the mid-2010s the United States 4:04 already had an aerial asset that no 4:06 Global adversary could challenged in the 4:08 F-22 it was just beginning to introduce 4:10 a new aircraft into service the F-35 and 4:13 aircraft where the Pentagon was still 4:15 intended to go all in despite Myriad 4:17 problems delays and cost overruns enemy 4:19 aircrafts were not the problem instead 4:22 the problem was the Air Forces long war 4:24 against the red pen wielded by America's 4:26 own budget officers looking to tie it in 4:28 the country's belt after the Cold War 4:29 War concluded America wasn't planning on 4:31 any InterContinental world wars anytime 4:34 soon and as a result to Cuts against 4:36 programs like the F22 the Air Force was 4:37 projected to run low on air superiority 4:39 Fighters for a span of years and 4:41 potentially even decades those programs 4:43 were too expensive to restart once the 4:45 US realized its misstep and with the F35 4:48 sucking funds out of any room where a 4:50 Department of Defense official dared 4:52 whisper its name there weren't many 4:53 other options the Air Force could extend 4:55 the life of some of its older f-15s for 4:58 air superiority upgrading their onics 5:00 and pushing their retirement date back 5:02 but that was nothing more than a stop 5:04 Gap measure and one that American 5:06 military leaders knew wouldn't be 5:07 sustainable either but over at Boeing 5:10 the longtime owner of the F-15 after it 5:12 acquired McDonald Douglas back in the 5:14 day the F-15 was already showing 5:16 potential far beyond what America had 5:19 achieved the planes in question weren't 5:21 going to the United States at all 5:23 instead they were going to Saudi Arabia 5:26 and Qatar in the form of two Advanced 5:28 models that built on the ability ities 5:30 of the initial F-15 design and rounded 5:32 them out in a pretty major way they were 5:33 evolutions on the F-15 e Strike Eagle 5:36 itself an immensely popular variant of 5:38 the Bas F-15 and the new improvements 5:40 were already impressive enough to set 5:42 them apart Boeing had the designs the 5:45 world had better f-15s America just 5:47 hadn't bothered to procure them yet not 5:49 only that but shifts in thinking around 5:52 American Air superiority strategy LED 5:54 military planners to the conclusion that 5:56 a new F-15 could have value and 5:58 longevity all its own fifth generation 6:01 Fighters are generally speaking really 6:03 really impressive pieces of hardware and 6:05 it's hard to invent a battle that they 6:07 aren't able to win but they're not 6:09 always necessary either using a more 6:11 advanced version of the fourth 6:13 generation Fighters currently in 6:14 America's Arsenal strategist envisioned 6:16 a hybridized approach to air superiority 6:19 where a Workhorse aircraft could fill 6:20 all the roles that don't require bells 6:22 and whistles like stealth technology or 6:25 address threats that say the F35 is too 6:27 slow to handle in an Interceptor roll or 6:30 doesn't carry enough payload to manage 6:32 far from a reduction capability a truly 6:34 Advanced F-15 or similar fighter would 6:37 ensure that America could select the 6:38 right tools for a given job while at the 6:41 same time offloading some of the 6:42 nation's air superiority 6:44 responsibilities onto a more affordable 6:46 but still Advanced alternative if such a 6:49 program could run in a way that didn't 6:51 get in the F-35 program's way and didn't 6:54 open the Pentagon or the Air Force to 6:55 any more risk than they already faced 6:57 then it could be potentially a major 6:59 Boon to the future of the USAF in 2018 7:03 after strategic analysis basically green 7:06 at the idea of a combined fourth and 7:08 fifth generation fighter Fleet the US 7:10 Air Force began working closely with 7:12 Boeing to discuss the so-called Advanced 7:14 F-15 or f-15x it would be a two- seat 7:17 model they eventually worked out given 7:19 that Boeing was by that time producing 7:21 exclusively two-seater aircraft on its 7:23 current production lines the program was 7:25 set to be based in St Louis Missouri 7:27 where Boeing had a major plant that the 7:29 US wanted to keep open in order to help 7:31 spread around America's fighter aircraft 7:33 construction capabilities the Air Force 7:35 picked out the new hardware and software 7:37 systems it wanted to update the plane 7:38 with made improvements on the plane that 7:40 Qatar and Saudi Arabia had been getting 7:42 and before long Boeing's already working 7:44 production lines were able to fly a 7:46 prototype that Maiden flight took place 7:48 in February of 2021 and two months later 7:51 the aircraft got a name the eagle 2 the 7:54 first of the line would be delivered to 7:55 the Air Force before that eagle 2 name 7:58 was even announced and joined by five 8:00 other copies it would perform flight testing at egin Air Force Base in Florida for months the rigorous testing model saw some of the aircraft participating in war games others fitted out with new and unique equipment pieces and still more modified to fit better with the Air Force's internal requirements it got its approvals its validations its certifications and all the other practical stuff it needed along with a few tweaks sent back to Boeing for future aircraft by 2024 just 6 years after the program's conception and 3 years after its Maiden flight the F-15 ex was assigned to the 142nd wing of the Oregon Air National Guard designated for future call up into Federal service with the US Air Force its first flight upon delivery was flown by two crew call signs night and wiggles and a brought back down to earth amidst thunderous Applause on the tarmac the eagle 2 is a marked improvement on its progenitor either 8:57 holding consistent or offering better 8:59 performance in just about every 9:00 conceivable metric measuring 63 ft 9 1/2 9:03 in from tip to tail or just under 20 M 9:06 long it features a wingspan of 42 ft 9 9:09 1/2 in or 13 M even sitting empty it's a 9:12 substantial piece of engineering at 9:14 34,600 or just hair under 16 metric tons 9:18 fully loaded that weight will more than 9:20 double to a maximum takeoff weight of 9:22 £81,000 or 36 and 3/4 metric tons it's 9:26 powered by two General Electric f-110 9:28 jet engines and seat two crew members a 9:31 pilot and a weapon system officer on 9:33 paper the eagle 2 boasts maximum speed 9:36 of Mac 2.5 at high altitude equivalent 9:38 to 1,650 mph or 9:41 2,655 km an hour the low altitude it 9:44 still flies well past the speed of sound 9:46 at about 920 mph it's 1500 km an hour 9:50 but in practice it can go a good bit 9:52 faster is especially unloaded and its 9:55 never exceed speed is as high as Mac 2.9 9:58 if feates a combat range of 791 Mi or 10:01 1,272 km while with external fuel tanks it can fly across continents in one go capping out a 2,400 Mi or 3900 km it features a service ceiling of 60,000 ft or 18 km an altitude it can reach a barely more than a minute in training and test situations the eagle 2 was easily won drag Ray star competitions against strike Eagles and outturn out climbed and outmaneuvered models using similar airf frames and engines pilots who flown the eagle 2 have confirmed its persistent ability to outrun the F-16 and the F35 and then there's the question of ordinance where the F-15 ex is packing another level of heat in addition to 12 external hard points the eagle 2 is capable of mounting bomb racks that increase its carrier capacity to an unbelievable 22 air-to-air missiles 23 bombs or a combination depending on the racks used for the job that's nearly a three-fold increase over the missile counts of the F-15 C and D are the eagle to can carry all manner of 11:01 air-to-air missiles including the a260 a 11:04 missile currently under development by 11:05 loed Martin and treated as the Air Force 11:08 and the Navy's highest priority weapon 11:10 procurement it should arrive sometime in 11:12 2024 it carries several kinds of air to 11:15 surface and anti-radiation missiles 11:16 including the AGM 183 Arrow a 6600 or 3 11:20 metric tonon Hypersonic missile 11:22 currently on ice as the US decides 11:24 whether or not it would like to fund the 11:25 thing in future years it carries not 11:27 just small damer bombs but the heavy 11:29 bunker busting Mark 84 outfitted with 11:32 guiding equipment called the jdam it 11:34 integrates modern multimodal all-weather 11:36 radar multiple options for an advanced 11:39 targeting pod that features autonomous 11:41 Target tracking and identification and a 11:43 specially designed electronic warfare 11:45 encounter measure Suite vant to keep it 11:47 available in the heat of battle finally 11:49 it rounds out its onboard Arsenal with 11:51 an onboard Gatling cannon with 500 11:53 rounds of 20 mm ammunition all across 11:56 the aircraft it includes a wide range of 11:58 upgrades and modification over previous 12:00 Eagle iterations its electronic warfare 12:02 suite and its flyby wire control system 12:05 are significantly improved over any and 12:07 all other Eagle versions and it brings 12:10 two extra Wing pylons to the table after 12:12 previous fly by wire systems caused its 12:14 stability issues that require those 12:16 pylons to go unused Eagle 2's refined 12:19 Wing structure extends its service life 12:21 dramatically to 20,000 flight hours 12:24 enough to nearly triple the projected 12:25 service lives of most Global air 12:27 superiority Fighters and projecting its 12:29 usefulness outward to the next 80 years 12:32 potentially not retiring until the year 12:34 2100 or later it's onboard processor 12:38 Mission computer and its Advanced large 12:40 display inside the cockpit bring a level 12:42 of technological integration to the 12:44 pilot that most aircraft of the eagle 12:46 2's generation simply cannot match it 12:48 even carries specialized onboard sensors 12:50 to help pick up on the presence of 12:52 stealth aircraft while the eagle 2 may 12:54 be able to integrate the Air Force's 12:56 anticipated collaborative combat 12:58 aircraft and young man's wingman drone 13:00 the eagle 2 can perform both air 13:02 superiority and ground attack roles and 13:04 its digital systems are designed in a 13:06 way to ease the process of stacking on 13:08 future upgrades and 13:10 [Music] 13:14 Technologies at the time of writing the 13:16 US Air Force hasn't yet brought Eagle 2 13:19 into full operational status as of now 13:22 the Air Force has taken possession of 13:24 just two of the aircraft with a total of 13:25 102 more on order from Boeing over the 13:28 next few years while that total Fleet of 13:30 104 is relatively small not even enough 13:32 to phase out the 149 f-15c models the 13:35 Air Force still flies it's not likely 13:38 that the number of ordered Eagle tws 13:39 will stay static the program isn't cheap 13:42 by any means but it's far less costly in 13:44 real dollars than the F-35 and because 13:46 of how quickly Boeing can push the 13:48 aircraft out on a short timetable 13:50 they're likely to be procured in small 13:52 follow-up batches from year to year 13:54 using the sums that are left behind 13:56 after the Air Force's big budget items 13:57 have been accounted for that procurement 13:59 as of now hasn't been fully smooth 14:02 sailing after revisions were requested 14:04 the aircraft front fuselage has 14:06 undergone some modifications that have 14:07 slowed down procurement but those bugs 14:10 are expected to be mostly worked out by 14:12 now and once they are aircraft should 14:15 start arriving in larger and larger 14:17 batches in its operational role the 14:19 first 150 or so Eagle twos are likely to 14:22 fill in four and eventually phase out 14:24 the F-15 c/d those aircrafts mostly 14:28 stationed around America's own National 14:30 borders under the National Guard along 14:32 with squadrons in England and Japan and 14:34 a small smattering elsewhere those 14:37 airplanes were initially supposed to be 14:39 replaced by the F-16 which to be fair is 14:42 an elite multi-roll platform but when 14:44 compared to the F-15 the F-16 simply 14:46 isn't as Elite in that air superiority 14:48 role the eagle 2 offers not reduced but 14:51 improved air superiority capabilities 14:53 relative to the aircraft it will replace 14:55 and eliminates the need to service its 14:58 aging predecessor not only that but 15:00 it'll substantially improve the Air 15:02 Force's ability to operate its bomb 15:03 defense air fleet in a lowcost way while 15:06 making virtually no trade-offs to do so 15:09 and accepting close to zero added 15:11 complications or headaches in the 15:12 process per flight hour it's expected to 15:14 cost just 25 to $30,000 as substantial 15:17 improvements on the aircraft it will 15:19 replace and a major cost-saving measure 15:21 compared to America's fifth gen aircraft 15:23 and in terms of the ground support 15:25 equipment it uses the pilot training 15:27 required and the logistical check to 15:29 support the aircraft on base and in the 15:31 fields they're close to a direct copy 15:33 and paste from prior versions of the 15:35 eagle America's production capacity for 15:37 this particular plane is known to be 15:39 elastic and can be ratcheted up to an 15:41 output of several dozen per year meaning 15:43 that the currently projected drive to 15:45 procure 104 of the planes could be 15:47 finished by or before the decade's end 15:49 that's not to say though that everyone 15:51 is a fan of the F-5 ex and in fact the 15:54 plane has drawn heavy criticism from a 15:56 range of experts across the American 15:58 defense world many condemn its lack of 16:00 stealth capability asserting that 16:01 anything that cannot fly stealthily is a 16:04 waste and that all the eagle to use 16:06 Advanced capabilities will come to 16:08 nothing if it can't hide its presence 16:10 it's vulnerable to Russia's S400 missile 16:12 defense system and likely to Chinese 16:15 made systems as well and when it comes 16:16 to the idea of a direct confrontation 16:18 with either or both Nations some experts 16:21 believe that it won't be able to do the 16:23 job National Security reporter Mark 16:25 episcopos Writing for the national 16:27 interest in 2021 even titled one article 16:30 on the aircraft quoting here Boeing F-15 16:33 ex the US Air Force's biggest mistake 16:37 ever yet against expert skepticism has 16:40 come International confidence with both 16:43 Saudi Arabia and Israel planning to 16:45 either upgrade the existing f-15s to the 16:48 eagle 2 standard or to order their own 16:50 versions Egypt Poland Indonesia and 16:53 Thailand are apparently in HT as well 16:55 and while we certainly admit that those 16:57 experts are correct to implicate the 16:59 eagle 2's lack of stealth technology 17:01 context matters and the F-15 ex won't be 17:04 operating alone integrated capabilities 17:07 to the US Air Fleet as a whole and its 17:09 efficacy begins to make a whole lot more 17:10 sense in combat the F-15 ex is indeed 17:14 expected to be a stark contrast to its 17:16 stealthy Partners it will Thunder into 17:18 aerial dog fights into cross- contested 17:20 or enemy territory with no attempt to 17:22 hide its presence instead the eagle 2 is 17:25 known to be highly maneuverable it's 17:26 clearly very well armed and perhaps most 17:29 importantly of all it's explosively fast 17:31 capable of enacting a higher octane 17:33 higher thrust approach to combat than 17:35 any other American vter aircraft it's on 17:38 board computers are so sophisticated 17:40 that they essentially take direction 17:41 from the pilots and make previously 17:42 impossible Maneuvers happen with a level 17:44 of precision that not even the best 17:46 human operators could match without 17:48 digital assistance with those new 17:50 controls the eagle 2 is either on the 17:52 edge of or has passed into fully super 17:55 maneuverable status level of acrobatic 17:57 performance that no compar comparable 17:59 aircraft can even hope to match Boeing's 18:02 promotional materials highlight the 18:03 plane's capacity to attack from very 18:05 long ranges using current technology and 18:08 the ability of its electronic warfare 18:09 tools to make it stealthy by default 18:11 basically blinding the enemy rather than 18:13 turning itself so to speak invisible for 18:16 the medium term the eagle 2 is expected 18:17 to continue serving in its role of 18:19 airbase and Homeland defense while 18:21 aircrafts that see front line operation 18:23 may also take on a primarily defensive 18:25 role in forcing no fly zones maintaining 18:28 secured air space in contested areas and 18:30 guarding over forward deployed American 18:32 Assets in the field they may be used to 18:34 deploy standoff weapons particularly 18:35 ones that the US is rather eager to try 18:37 out in real life engagements once 18:39 they're ready to use and the right 18:40 situation presents itself at present 18:43 it's not expected to be the tip of the 18:44 spear when conducting offensives that 18:46 require overcoming modern air defenses 18:48 although the right weapons loadouts for 18:50 a group of Eagle twos operating in 18:52 concert might be able to do the job 18:54 instead it'll be more likely to serve as 18:56 a second wave following close behind 18:58 Raptor or lightning aircraft that can 19:00 conduct Precision operations to 19:02 hamstring and adversar defenses before 19:04 thundering in and dropping its far 19:06 greater payload on targets that were in 19:09 theory defended and as we mentioned 19:11 previously it's unlikely that this 19:13 ongoing run of 104 aircraft will be the 19:15 only F-15 ex batch ever produced if the 19:18 aircraft's actual capabilities match up 19:20 with its purported capabilities then 19:22 it'll bring tactical and strategic value 19:24 all up and down the US Air Force 19:26 overcoming a sort of tunnel vision 19:28 that's taken over the stealth minded 19:30 fifth gen Focus Pentagon in favor of 19:33 sleek sophisticated utilitarianism as 19:36 time goes on and Technology develops 19:38 it's unclear just what the eagle 2 will 19:40 be able to accomplish when paired up 19:42 with more advanced aircraft some 19:43 commentators have suggested that it may 19:45 function as a weapons truck to support 19:47 the F-35 or the F-22 joining them in 19:50 contested airspace and pairing with 19:52 their sophisticated Battlefield mapping 19:53 systems with an F-35 or an F-22 flying 19:56 ad and marking targets it's the Eagle to 19:59 that may follow behind with the heavy 20:01 Firepower making attack runs look easy against aerial adversaries or ground targets that thought they were well defended as we mentioned previously they may be able to work alongside loyal wingman drones some of which may increase the eagle to's weapons carrying capacity even further While others may be able to act as stealth Scouts and fulfill the covert responsibilities that the eagle 2 can't do directly as American Ultra longrange Weaponry continues to develop the eagle 2 will be the most capable and Nimble plane to be able to carry particularly heavy Munitions and at least in theory they should be more than able to carry the large and heavy component parts that are expected to carry the first air superiority directed energy weapons essentially lasers the story of the F-15 ex is not yet written and until it has the opportunity to get a taste of real world combat in all its iterations it'll be impossible to truly pinpoint whether this plane is a major success a major dud or something in between but at least on paper the eagle 2 is poised to offer 21:00 a major Improvement on every aircraft in the US Air Force in one way or another it could do more and do it better with better onboard systems than its fellow fourth generation Fighters and it can operate faster longer with better and heavier weaponry and in closer quarters engagements than the fifth generation aircraft that technically outmatch it and most important of all it won't fly alone instead it'll join the US Air Force as the tool that links all its disparate Parts together one part Workhorse one part Lynch pin and proven to be reliable for the battles of today while featuring a whole lot to offer for the battles to come [Music]

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