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The U.S. Air Force (USAF) should jettison the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II fighter jet to make room for additional Lockheed Martin F-35As, according to a new paper from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
F-15s are getting taken to the next level.
US Air Force officials say the service's current seven fighter airframes are too expensive to maintain, and the plan to trim the force down to four.
Experts are also quick to point out that even as great of a platform that the F-15EX may be—it absolutely shouldn’t be seen as a replacement or even an alternative to the F-35.
General Electric, which produced the GE F110-129 engines for the first lot of eight F-15EX aircraft, will continue manufacturing the propulsion system for the rest of the program of record.