F-15E Strike Eagle

The F-15E Strike Eagle is a two-seat, multi-role, fighter aircraft for all-weather air-to-air and air-to-surface missions. The rear cockpit includes four multipurpose displays for aircraft systems and weapons managements. The APG-70 radar and the LANTIRN navigation and targeting pods provide the F-15E with excellent precision strike capability day and night, and adverse weather conditions. During the Gulf War, the F-15E Strike Eagle was used mainly at night hunting SCUD missile launchers and artillery sites. The LANTIRN pods demonstrated to be very valuable for the F-15E success. The F-15E still retains the A, B, C and D air-to-air capability and the internal 20mm gun. Two low-drag conformal fuel tanks that hug the F-15E's fuselage increase the maximum range. The US Air Force ordered 226 F-15E aircraft between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The aircraft entered service in September 1989. The F-15E Strike Eagle with some modifications has been exported to Israel (F-15I Thunder), and Saudi Arabia (F-15S Peace Sun IX). The F-15I is an upgraded model from US Air Force F-15E, and the F-15S is a downgraded model. The US Air Force plans call for the F-15E multi-role aircraft to remain in service beyond 2035. To achieve that goal a modernization program was introduced to upgrade its avionics and adding the latest smart weaponry. Nevertheless, as of 2014 further defense budget cuts could imply the early retirement of the F-15E fleet by 2020. The US Air Force envisaged the replacement of the F-15E by a variant of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22 but this program was cancelled. Current plans call for its replacement by the F-35A or a further new variant of the F-35 aircraft. As of 2004, Boeing was testing the newest version of the Advanced Display Core Processor (ADCP) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Leveraging commercial data technologies (commercial processors), ADCP enables F-15E's computer system to process target data faster, display better information to the crew, and control more advanced weaponry. This model uses less power at half the cost and weight than its predecessor. The US Air Force plans to retrofit the entire F-15E fleet with the newest ADCP as an upgrade to central computer and multi-purpose display processor starting in 2006. In early 2005, the US Air Force released that the F-15E Strike Eagle was testing Sniper XR advanced targeting pod at the Royal Air Force base in Lakenheath, England. During the test campaign , an F-15E dropped for the first time the 500-pound GBU-38 JDAM satellite-guided weapon.

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