Why the F-15 Is Such a Badass Plane
Just 29,000 pounds of ordnance screaming at twice the speed of sound.
By Alex Hollings
Apr 17, 2020
On Valentine’s Day 1991, U.S. Air Force Captain Richard “TB†Bennett was at the stick of an F-15 Strike Eagle, a ground attack variant of McDonnell Douglas’s F-15 warplane. Throughout Operation Desert Storm, F-15Cs and F-15Ds would rack up 32 kills against Iraqi planes, but Strike Eagles had a different mission—hunting and engaging mobile SCUD and surface-to-air missile platforms.
Bennett was on a SCUD patrol with his weapons systems officer Captain Dan “Chewie†Bakke when they received orders to engage a group of Iraqi gunship helicopters that were attacking American special operations troops on the ground.
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