October 7, 2018
104 to 0: The Air Force's F-15 Eagle Is the Fighter No Nation Can Beat
And the reasons are obvious.
by Tom Cooper
She might be old, but she also might be undefeated.
According to official releases from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, the F-15 Eagle has a clear-cut win-to-loss ratio of 104 to zero. But in fact, opposing air forces have claimed, in nearly a dozen cases, to have shot down the iconic, twin-engine fighter.
All the claims have one thing in common. The claimants were never able to provide any evidence for their supposed victories.
The earliest report is mostly unknown to the public. Beginning in 1978, Iraqi sources claimed that an Iraqi air force MiG-23MS from No. 39 Squadron shot down an Israeli F-15 over western Iraq. Former Iraqi air force officers have repeated the claim over the years without ever offering any evidence.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/104-0-air-forces-f-15-eagle-fighter-no-nation-can-beat-32921
