January 5, 2021
Why the Air Force is Committed to Buying the F-15EX
This purchase will mark the first time the Air Force has purchased an F-15 in more than 20 years.
by Alex Hollings
The U.S. Air Force is now poised to begin purchases of Boeing’s new and improved F-15EX, a fourth generation platform that has drawn its fair share of controversy in recent months. This purchase will mark the first time the Air Force has purchased an F-15 in more than 20 years, prompting some critics to question the logic behind investing hundreds of millions of dollars into an old workhorse in this era of advanced stealth technology.
At around the same price-per-plane as Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Air Force’s decision to purchase new “old†F-15s may seem odd indeed–but there’s more to this decision to consider than initial costs alone.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-air-force-committed-buying-f-15ex-175787
