USAF Actually Buying F-15Xs?

originally posted by: mightmight
a reply to: glib2

it's going to be pretty darn ineffective against a near peer.

I hope they think the same. I agree. Ineffective.

First flight.

'a reply to: tadaman

"The contract includes options for up to 200 jets, with the Air Force projecting it will buy at least 144 F-15EX aircraft, said Air Force spokesman Capt. Jacob Bailey. Each jet is projected to have a unit flyaway cost of $87.7 million."

from defense news
www.defensenews.com...

The last I heard the F-35 was $85 mil.

a reply to: Xeven

Seeing as the F-35 is a bomb truck not an interceptor......

That is the F-22s job. IT is the interceptor.

a reply to: Fools

It meant to be a stealth bomb truck for the opening days of a conflict. YOU ARE the one who keeps saying "the F-35 cannot do this air-planes job or that or that air-planes job."

Indonesia has decided it wants F-15EXs.

www.flightglobal.com...
breakingdefense.com...