Boeing F-15 Family
The F-15 design has proved impressively versatile with the aircraft first taking to the sky almost 50 years ago and yet still remains in production. The F-15 Eagle was designed by McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing, to meet a US Air Force requirement for an air superiority fighter, though it can also perform ground attack. With 101 aerial victories and no defeats, the fighter has proven its worth and gone on to be the basis for multi-role F-15 Strike Eagle variants.
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History of the McDonnell Douglas F-15
Born and raised as a McDonnell Douglas jet in the early 1970s, the F-15 Eagle is the world’s greatest post-war fighter aircraft with a kill tally of over 100 for no losses.
In the late 1970s, a US Air Force requirement for a tactical strike aircraft resulted in the F-15E Strike Eagle. Designed as a multi-role aircraft, like its F-15 Eagle sister ship, the F-15E is also proven in combat, and remains the US Air Force’s tactical strike aircraft of choice, one with a lethal air-to-air
capability and bucketloads of performance.
When McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in August 1997, the F-15 became a Boeing branded aircraft - a time when Boeing was only building variants of the Strike Eagle. Orders were thin on the ground, and in 2001, no F-15 deliveries were made. It was the only dud year in the programme’s 48-year history. International orders for variants of the F-15 Advanced Eagle turned the programme’s fortune around. Deliveries continued to Singapore, the Republic of South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
The F-15 has 2 distinct branches to the family, F-15 Eagle and F-15 Strike Eagle variants.