A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle from the 173rd Fighter Wing parks next to an F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 162nd Wing, Arizona Air National Guard, following a training mission Aug. 13, 2014, at Kingsley Field, Klamath Falls, Ore. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar/Released) The …
Read More »USAF Sends Retired F-117s to California For Air Combat Training Against F-15s
Two F-15C Eagles and an F-117 fly in formation over the skies of Fresno, Calif. before separating to land at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sept. 14, 2021. This week, two F-117 Nighthawks are participating in dissimilar air combat training missions along with F-15 pilots from the 144th Fighter …
Read More »F-14 Tomcat Vs F-15 Eagle (Who Wins)?
F-14 TOMCAT Vs F-15 EAGLE: The U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat and the U.S. Airforce F-15 Eagle are two of the best fighter jets ever built. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather …
Read More »Upgrading Ukrainian Air Force With F-15 & F-16 Fighter Jets Could Deter Russia: Stephen Blank
A Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker and MiG-29 Fulcrum escort two B1B Lancers during a training mission for Bomber Task Force Europe, May 29, 2020. (Courtesy photo by Ukrainian Air Force) Stephen Blank, A Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute thinks that upgrading Ukraine’s Air Force with F-15 and F-16 …
Read More »When U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle Almost Accidentally Shot Down Another F-15 Fighter Jet
on Mar. 19, 1990 a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) F-15 Eagle accidentally hit by an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile fired from another USAF F-15. As can be seen by looking at the photo, the missile caused extensive damage to the tail section of the aircraft and …
Read More »That Time F-15 AIM-9M Sidewinder Missile Accidentally Hit Another F-15 Fighter Jet
on Mar. 19, 1990, a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) F-15 Eagle was accidentally hit by an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile fired from another USAF F-15. As can be seen by looking at the photo, the missile caused extensive damage to the tail section of the aircraft …
Read More »U.S. Deploys Tanks, B-1B Bombers & Additional F-15 Fighter Jets To Middle East
Amid U.S. Military Buildup In The Middle, East U.S. Deploys Tanks, B-1B Bombers & Additional F-15 Fighter Jets. U.S. Air Force Additional F-15 fighters deployment to UAE The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 494th Fighter Squadron arrived at Al Dhafra Air Base, …
Read More »Watch: USAF F-35 and F-15 Jets Drop 80,000 Pounds Of Bombs on ISIS Positions in Iraq
U.S. Air Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighters and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped 36,000 kilograms, or nearly 80,000 pounds, of bombs on ISIS positions at Qanus Island In the Iraqi province of Salah ad-Din in the framework of the US-led coalition campaign in the war-torn country. The island in Iraq’s Tigris …
Read More »U.S. Air Force pilot explains what Prevents Fighter Pilots from Defecting with Their Planes
In aviation history, a number of pilots from various nations defected with their aircraft to other countries due to many reasons Here Ron Wagner, a Former U.S. Air Force pilot at Andrews AFB, on Quora that What prevents fighter pilots from stealing their aircraft and selling it to a foreign …
Read More »Why Countries are Still buying a Nearly five decades old F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet
F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet First flown in 1972 – back, when the Vietnam War was still raging the “Eagle”, had lately seemed too old, too last-century, to compete for sales against modern counterparts, notably the Lockheed Martin F-35. Boeing warned on several occasions that its assembly line for the type …
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