Why the US Air Force Is Buying New F-15EX Fighter Jets
The F-15 project has been spectacularly successful, which is perhaps why the US Air Force doesn't want to leave it behind.
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The F-15 project has been spectacularly successful, which is perhaps why the US Air Force doesn't want to leave it behind.
GDC Technics would pay nearly $1.4 million under the agreement. After the lawyers’ cut, each of the roughly 230 ex-workers would get just under $4,000.
The Air Force - Navy program, called QUICKSINK, fired a precision-guided GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) at the surface ship as part of what’s called a Joint Capability Technology Demonstration.
The Air Force has also deployed eight F-15Es to Lask, Poland and six KC-135 Stratotankers to Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
The killing blow came when the F-14s guided Air Force F-15Es as they dropped 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs to wipe out the underground bunker.