This fourth-generation fighter, which debuted in the 1970s, is still soaring the skies and winning battles in a world dominated by fifth-generation aircraft.
In its almost 50 years of service, the F-15 has been challenged by many formidable fighters like MiG-29s, MiG-25s, MiG-23s, MiG-21s, Su-25s, Su-22s, Su-7s, and Mirage F1s.
It killed them all.
There's never been an incident of an F-15 being shot down and it has so far claimed some 100 kills.
It is the only aircraft that has shot down a satellite and is one of the few, if not the only, to have bombed a helicopter out of the sky.
F-15's twin engines (Pratt & Whitney F-100-PW-220s or 229s) have a very high thrust-to-weight ratio and can generate almost eight times their own weight in thrust.
While it can cruise at speeds of mach 0.9, at full force, an F-15 can get up to more than Mach 2.5 (approximately 1,854 mph / 2,984 kph).
The Eagles can be armed with combinations of different air-to-air weapons: AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missiles on its lower fuselage corners, AIM-9L/M Sidewinder or AIM-120 missiles on two pylons under the wings, and an internal 20mm Gatling gun in the right wing root as well as the Boeing-built Small Diameter Bomb I, Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and Laser JDAM weapons.
And, for those of you who enjoy flight simulators, the DCS: F-15E is on its way to your home cockpits!
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