McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas .
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25 Facts About F-15 Eagle
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The F-15 Eagle first flew in July 1972, and entered service in 1976.
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The F-15 Eagle was originally envisioned as a pure air-superiority aircraft.
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The F-15 Eagle used conformal carriage of four Sparrow missiles like the Phantom.
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Unlike the F-14 or F-4, the F-15 Eagle has only a single canopy frame with clear vision forward.
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F-15 Eagle has an all-metal semi-monocoque fuselage with a large-cantilever, shoulder-mounted wing.
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The wing planform of the F-15 Eagle suggests a modified cropped delta shape with a leading-edge sweepback angle of 45°.
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The F-15 Eagle has a spine-mounted air brake and retractable tricycle landing gear.
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F-15 Eagle's maneuverability is derived from low wing loading with a high thrust-to-weight ratio, enabling the aircraft to turn tightly without losing airspeed.
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Visibly, the F-15 Eagle has a unique feature vis-a-vis other modern fighter aircraft; it does not have the distinctive "turkey feather" aerodynamic exhaust petals covering its engine nozzles.
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F-15 Eagle was shown to be capable of controlled flight with only one wing.
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McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle is a two-seat, dual-role, totally integrated fighter for all-weather, air-to-air, and deep interdiction missions.
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The ZAP missile launch envelope has been integrated into the operational flight program system of all U S F-15 aircraft, providing dynamic launch zone and launch acceptability region information for missiles to the pilot by display cues in real-time.
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Israel was the only operator to use and develop the air-to-ground abilities of the air-superiority F-15 Eagle variants, doing so because the fighter's range was well beyond other combat aircraft in the Israeli inventory in the 1980s.
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The Soviet Union could correlate a U S rocket launch with a spy satellite loss, but an F-15 carrying an ASAT would blend in among hundreds of F-15 flights.
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Over half of F-15 Eagle kills have been achieved by Israeli Air Force pilots.
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In 2021,144 F-15 Eagle IIs were planned to primarily fly ANG homeland defense missions, as well as carry outsized standoff weapons in combat.
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On 2 July 2020, a Saudi F-15 Eagle shot down two Houthi Shahed 129 drones above Yemen.
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On 30 March 2021, a video made by Saudi border guards showed a Saudi F-15 Eagle shooting down a Houthi Quasef-2K drone with an AIM-120 AMRAAM fired at short range.
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However, the F-15 Eagle aircraft is very reliable with only 1 loss per 50,000 flight hours.
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F-15 Eagle has been a popular subject as a toy, and a fictional likeness of an aircraft similar to the F-15 Eagle has been used in cartoons, books, video games, animated television series, and animated films.
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