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Unbeknownst to many people, Boeing doesn’t exclusively manufacture commercial jets. It manufactures military jets as well. The American aerospace manufacturing company, in fact, recently delivered the first F-15EX fighter jet to the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n
The F-15EX is a variant of the F-15 Strike Eagle. Its origins can be traced back to 2018. During this year, the U.S. Air Force and Boeing began talks for a replacement to the F-15C\/Ds. The U.S. Air Force specifically wanted a new variant with infrared (IR) radar capabilities, advanced avionics and a service life of 20,000 hours. After agreeing to a deal, Boeing officially launched the F-15EX project. The F-15EX jet has all of these features.<\/p>\n
“With its large weapons capacity, digital backbone, and open architecture, the F-15EX will be a key element of our tactical fighter fleet and complement fifth-generation assets<\/em>,” said U.S. Air Force Colonel Sean Dorey.<\/p>\n Just last year, the U.S. Air Force said it would be replacing the F-15Cs stationed in Florida and Oregon with Boeing’s new F-15EX jets. And on March 10, 2021, Boeing delivered the first F-15EX jet to the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n Boeing’s latest delivery of a single F-15EX jet marks the first of many to come. Reports show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) ordered eight of the new jets at an estimated cost of $1.2 billion. The U.S. Air Force says it will use the new F-15EX jets for both training and operational purposes.<\/p>\n The F-15EX jets feature two seats. There’s a seat in the front of the pilot as well as a seat in the back for a copilot. According to the U.S. Air Force, though, it will operate the new F-15EX jets with only one pilot. It intends to use the F-15EX jets with the rear seat remaining empty.<\/p>\n Boeing still produces commercial jets, but it has contracts with military organizations like the U.S. Air Force as well. One of its contracts involves the production of the F-15EX jet. As previously mentioned, the F-15EX jet is a variant of the F-15 Strike Eagle. There are nearly a dozen F-15 Strike Eagle variants, some of which include the F-15E, the F-151, the F-15K, the F-15S, the F-15SG, the F-15 Advanced Eagle and the F-15QA. The F-15EX is one of the latest variants that’s being manufactured by Boeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unbeknownst to many people, Boeing doesn’t exclusively manufacture commercial jets. It manufactures military jets as well. The American aerospace manufacturing company, in fact, recently delivered the first F-15EX fighter jet to the U.S. Air Force. What Is the F-15EX? The … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Boeing’s Latest Delivery of the F-15EX<\/h2>\n
In Conclusion<\/h2>\n