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After losing to Lockheed Martin Seeing that Lockheed Martin is making a lot of money from the production of F35, Boeing always wants to regain its place and save face, so it has developed a new fighter plane, which is faster than F22 and can carry more than 20 missiles at a time. , it is the F15EX fighter jet that was once coveted by the Pentagon. But why has the US military drastically reduced its number? Is it going to reverse history again?
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The F15EX is a multi-purpose fighter version deeply developed by Boeing based on the F15. It was originally planned to be exported to the Middle East oil tycoon countries, but in the end it was decided to sell it to the military. The slogan was to replace it and serve for 30 years. F15C/D fighter jets, and cooperate with the US military's fifth-generation aircraft , similar to the use of the J-16 fighter , to reduce the deployment pressure caused by the delayed delivery of the US military F35A fighter . Objectively speaking, the F15 fighter jet has been used in the US military It plays a major role and is an excellent third-generation machine.
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. The outstanding feature of this aircraft is that it adopts the swept wing aerodynamic layout . It has supersonic cruise and all-weather combat capabilities. It can carry a variety of weapons including B61 tactical nuclear bomb . It has been in service for 40 years and is derived from There are more than 10 models. The F15EX is characterized by its heavy load, large bomb load, and long range. Compared with the bomb load of some medium bombers, it can carry 13 tons of ammunition, which is equivalent to what an H-6K bomber can carry. The amount of ammunition can provide strong ground fire support. The F15EX uses two E110GE129 afterburning turbine engines from General Dynamics. The total thrust reaches 260 kilonewtons. The powerful thrust and afterburner thrust enable the F15EX to reach a maximum flight speed of Mach 2.5, which exceeds the current fifth-generation aircraft in the US military and can carry The auxiliary fuel tank optimizes the design of the conformal fuel tank . It has a combat radius of up to 1,770 kilometers and a flight altitude of up to 18,000 meters. Another outstanding feature is that it can carry up to 22 air-to-air missiles after using a specially designed composite pylon. .
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At present, the fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft in the world can generally carry no more than 12 missiles, which means that the firepower of an F15EX is twice that of other aircraft. Due to its strong bomb-carrying capacity, it can carry more ammunition There are many types, such as hypersonic air-to-surface missiles, air-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles , anti-satellite missiles , precision guided bombs, etc. In addition, the aircraft has enhanced onboard avionics and adopts a digital fly-by-wire flight control plan. Equipped with a more advanced APG82 radar, the maximum air detection range is 450 kilometers. Unfortunately, the shortcomings of this aircraft are also prominent. First, it is too expensive. The procurement cost of a fourth-generation aircraft exceeds 100 million U.S. dollars. Second, it lacks stealth performance. Boeing claims that it can cooperate with fifth-generation aircraft in combat, but its inability to be stealthy will actually drag down fifth-generation aircraft. In the past, the United States cut leeks from other countries and used weapons to make profits. Boeing did not want to make progress and used outdated fourth-generation aircraft to steal the wool of the U.S. military. Therefore, various problems have led to the purchase quantity of F15EX, from the very beginning to recently, has been officially Severe cuts.
