McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle Ideas and Inspiration

[GTX_Admin]

Satellite launcher:



https://youtu.be/bYadw4kxti4

[jschmus]

New missile-toting configurations!
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/boeings-touts-new-16-air-to-air-missile-carrying-f-15-e-1730258333

[ysi_maniac]

[finsrin]

This looks so good :)   Gives me first thought styrene idea.
1/72 F-80, F-86, F-97, or such with 1/100 F-15 wing.
Have to check sizing for plausibility.

[ysi_maniac]

Yeah, I began my drawings as a way to probe my ideas and plausibility before cuting styrene.

[elmayerle]

Thought, Italy replaces their F-104's earlier and want something more capable, so they purchase F-15C's (if still in production, if not, essentially single-seat F-15E airframes).  Initial version armed with Aspide and Sidewinder missiles and MLU-version with Meteors, IRIS-Ts, and Fastpacs plus internal equipment updates (possibly including cockpit displays).

[GTX_Admin]

Thought, Italy replaces their F-104's earlier and want something more capable, so they purchase F-15C's (if still in production, if not, essentially single-seat F-15E airframes).  Initial version armed with Aspide and Sidewinder missiles and MLU-version with Meteors, IRIS-Ts, and Fastpacs plus internal equipment updates (possibly including cockpit displays).

As done by Moritz:

[CiTrus90]

Thought, Italy replaces their F-104's earlier and want something more capable, so they purchase F-15C's (if still in production, if not, essentially single-seat F-15E airframes).  Initial version armed with Aspide and Sidewinder missiles and MLU-version with Meteors, IRIS-Ts, and Fastpacs plus internal equipment updates (possibly including cockpit displays).

[Volkodav]

How about something happens to derail the Air Combat Fighter Competition as far as the USAF is concerned, i.e. F-1E or JA37E wins or operational requirements see a more attack, less fighter oriented type procured, meaning there is no F-16 and, more importantly, F/A-18 in the late 70s early 80s.  End result the US has to buy more F-15 and F-14 variants, as do other air forces that would otherwise have gone for the Hornet in particular.

Very simplistic I know.

Edit: Actually. more specifically the NACF falls over so no F-18 or A-18 with the USN and maybe going for F-15N and A-15N instead, ending up with the F/A-15 incorporating all the good stuff the Hornet had in reality, including the glass cockpit, computerised maintenance and diagnostic system etc. a land based F/A-15 is developed as an export model instead of the F/A-18.

[ysi_maniac]

F-15J Silent Eagle: Do you know a model of this marvel? The pics in this article are of a model, I think.

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/threads/the-concept-of-stealth-fighter-f-15j-for-the-japanese-air-force.70661/

[GTX_Admin]

No model and unlikely to be one - you would need to do it yourself.

[elmayerle]

New missile-toting configurations!
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/boeings-touts-new-16-air-to-air-missile-carrying-f-15-e-1730258333

I wonder if the two versions could be combined to give a 20-missile carrying aircraft, though I could see that you might need to upgrade the engine to the equivalent of the F110-GE-132 in the F-16E/F.  It could make an excellent "arsenal ship" for more stealthy aircraft when provided with the equivalent of the F-35's MADL to transfer data while still able to fight its way out of trouble.  Be interesting to figure out where the F-15 could install the MADL antennae and boxes.

[ysi_maniac]

What if a 3 engines Strike Eagle?

[Vuk]

Colonial Viper style?  :)

[GTX_Admin]

Something different:

[The Big Gimper]

The US Air Force is currently saddled with a quandary plaguing its air superiority capabilities. With fighter platforms aging rapidly without suitable replacements available, and with foreign nations quickly closing the technology gap which was once the biggest advantage the United States possessed over other countries (at least militarily-so), the USAF needs a fix, fast. Congress has even gone as far as to order the Air Force to explore the possibility of restarting the production line for the F-22, which ended in 2012 with only 187 units produced overall, a mere fraction of what the Air Force originally intended to buy to replace their F-15 Eagles en masse. Boeing says that it has a cheaper and more effective solution, in the form of a major fleet-wide overhaul of all combat coded F-15Cs.

This upgrade, called 2040C or Advanced F-15, will incorporate technology from Boeing’s older Silent Eagle program, along with a few new gadgets, in order to give the USAF’s F-15Cs a brand new lease on life, turning it into an even deadlier air-to-air fighter than ever before. To help market their product, Boeing just released this awesome video of Eagles with 2040C upgrades.

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A screen grab from the commercial, with the 2040C’s proposed weapon stations upgrades.

Full article, The Tactical Air Network, is here.

[GTX_Admin]

Ah, Boeing trying to breath new life into an old product...again.  Stand by for nothing to result from this.

[jcf]

Ah, Boeing trying to breath new life into an old product...again.  Stand by for nothing to result from this.

To be more accurate BDS-St. Louis (aka McDonnell  ) trying to breathe life into a legacy program.
F-15Cs, eh? So a matter of "well seeing as we have them in for repairs anyhow because we built them
with under-sized and non-spec longerons, why don't we go ahead and do total rebuild? You know to the
standard you originally paid Mac-Dac for back in the '80s, but didn't receive."
 

[Kelmola]

"Quad-packs", heh. All I'm seeing is the usual shoulder rails and the already existing twin rail mounted to the "main" pylon (as well as the activated outer stations). Sure, they have now mounted the missile rails also to the tangential pylons on CFT's, not just the long underbelly pylon - all C's can already carry the CFT's (and when stationed in Iceland, did carry the older, pre-Strike Eagle variant). And wasn't the C fleet supposed to get AESA anyway?

Cockpit upgrade and data link to F-22's, allowing the F-15 to act as the arsenal ship are something new. Also, an engine upgrade in the pipeline too, seeing as how the animation highlighted them?

[Volkodav]

Ah, Boeing trying to breath new life into an old product...again.  Stand by for nothing to result from this.

Oh something will happen, a percentage of fanbois will latch onto it as evidence why the F-35 is a waste of money and start annoying reasonable people on defence sites, media sites, facebook etc.

[mrvr6]

that delta looks amazing

[kitnut617]

hmm! CF-105 leading edges perhaps  -----

[taiidantomcat]

Ah, Boeing trying to breath new life into an old product...again.  Stand by for nothing to result from this.

The Marketing, CGI, and Fiber Glass mock up divisions are never short of work 

It certainly looks cool, though I don't know how much will come of it. I think the USAF would probably be happy with the Golden Eagle upgrade and just trying to keep everything serviceable. I don't know how much you can throw onto an airframe that old as an "upgrade" without some pretty extensive replacement. However that is as JMN as I am going to get on the subject, and I will just say it really looks cool  :)

[The Big Gimper]

A search on "F-15 Delta Wing" found this:



And this:

[GTX_Admin]

Hmmm...a VG F-15