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Friday, December 14, 2012

What will replace the USAF’s F-15E Strike Eagle?

F-15E Strike Eagle |On 11 December, the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle marked the 26th anniversary of its first flight, but the venerable strike fighter will continue serving with the US Air Force well into the 2030s.

"There are no plans to replace the F-15E for the foreseeable future," the USAF says.

"It is true that the F-15E, like all of our legacy aircraft, are accumulating more flight time than used to be typical, but given current fiscal realities, the AF [air force] fleet will continue to age well past the point at which they would have been replaced in pre-DESERT STORM days."

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