A USAF F-15C Eagle has achieved the longest known air-to-air missile shot ever.
While its most advanced variant, the F-15EX (recently officially named the “Eagle IIâ€) was being delivered to the U.S. Air Force getting a lot of media attention, the “legacy†Eagle achieved yet another record: according to an official USAF statement, in March 2021, an F-15C fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile) at a BQM-167 subscale drone, resulting in the longest known air-to-air missile shot ever.
The kill from the furthest distance ever recorded was achieved by the 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron in partnership with the 83d Fighter Weapons Squadron during a test out of Tyndall AFB, Florida, during WSEP (Weapons Systems Evaluation Program) East.
Known also as “Combat Archerâ€, the WSEP is an air-to-air exercise hosted by the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group to improve air-to-air tactics and practice weapons systems employment: fighter pilots rarely get a chance to fire live missiles, WSEP events are almost always the first (and sometimes only) opportunity to use live air-to-air weapons and validate their shots.
https://theaviationist.com/2021/04/14/u-s-air-force-f-15c-eagle-records-longest-known-air-to-air-missile-shot/
