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If Boeing is able to secure an export license for the F-15SE "Silent Eagle" jet, the company plans to offer it to South Korea and other interested clients.
Boeing and South Korean officials have communicated about a possible deal over the past 12 months, but Boeing has had to wait until the F-15SE's low-observable jet stealth technology is evaluated.
The U.S. contractor believes its fighter jet is ideal because it's customizable and can support larger digital cockpit displays, AESA radar, newer radar absorbent coatings, and other features unavailable in older aircraft.
The expected price tag of the F-15SE is about $100 million, but can changed depending on the technology and hardware installed.
www.dailytech.com...
Originally posted by intelgurl
I find it very difficult to believe that the F-15SE can come close to the F-35's head-on RCS. Considering the testing, retesting and designing that went into making the F-35's RCS what it is.
The F-15SE is not a stealth aircraft., not even close.
What about the canopy, ejection seat and pilot's sitting position, all extremely un-stealthy, and all integral to the F-15's original design and not changing in the SE configuration.
What about the F-15's air intake inlets? redesigned? No. Those things show up on radar like two big headlamps on a freight train.
This is a load of BS (Boeing Sales department).
You cannot retrofit a standard airframe with radar absorbing paint and suddenly declare, "Hey everybody, we've got a new "stealth aircraft"!"
The Russians tried that for years, their final solution?
More RA paint?
No!
The Pak-FA.
Originally posted by ATSWATCHER
Originally posted by intelgurl
I find it very difficult to believe that the F-15SE can come close to the F-35's head-on RCS. Considering the testing, retesting and designing that went into making the F-35's RCS what it is.
The F-15SE is not a stealth aircraft., not even close.
What about the canopy, ejection seat and pilot's sitting position, all extremely un-stealthy, and all integral to the F-15's original design and not changing in the SE configuration.
What about the F-15's air intake inlets? redesigned? No. Those things show up on radar like two big headlamps on a freight train.
This is a load of BS (Boeing Sales department).
You cannot retrofit a standard airframe with radar absorbing paint and suddenly declare, "Hey everybody, we've got a new "stealth aircraft"!"
The Russians tried that for years, their final solution?
More RA paint?
No!
The Pak-FA.
I think the 35 iz NOT that good either after reading this: www.ausairpower.net... and there r other articlez by the same guy I'll post up on how the only hope for U.S./Austrailia IZ the F-22 going up against Mighty Rus'z Su-35S's and NEWR SAMs
Originally posted by Aim64C
You can't really build a "do everything" aircraft.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
reply to post by intelgurl
That's why ISRAEL is buying them instead of the F-35?
According to the documents and articles I've read, the F-15SE is fairly stealthy against other aircrafts but not against ground based radars.
The Israeli Defense Ministry is talking with the Pentagon about buying Boeing's F-15E1 because of delays in developing Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Israel's first choice for its next major fighter purchase, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday.
The new F-15 configuration reportedly includes a stealth capability but that's only effective in evading the radars carried by hostile aircraft but not by ground-based radar systems.
Other improvements include adapting the F-15's conformal fuel tanks to carry weapons inside the fuselage rather than externally, thus reducing the radar signature.
One of the functions tested during the F-15 Silent Eagle's weekend flight was opening and closing its left side conformal weapons bay that contained an AIM-120 air-to-air missile, which wasn't fired.
Originally posted by RichardPrice
Originally posted by Aim64C
You can't really build a "do everything" aircraft.
We are definitely getting there - take a look at the number of specialist role aircraft in World War 2, take another look at the same thing in the 1960s and take a look at those in service today.
The number of aircraft types have drastically fallen over the years, and the capabilities of aircraft have increased just as drastically.
While in World War 2 we had a 15 crew heavy bomber to deliver a particular payload over a particular target, and we had dozens of aircraft in the same mission against a single target, today we have one aircraft with a single crew member hitting multiple targets with better accuracy.
In World War 2 we had day fighters, night fighters, bad weather fighters, photo recon fighters, ground attack, dive bombers, bombers ranging from not much more than a 2 crew aircraft up to the biggest of the big.
Today we have multi role combat aircraft capable of air superiority and ground attack in the same mission.
In 50 years time, you can bet that there will be a capable, first world air force with one single type of offensive aircraft - and probably it will be much sooner than that!