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Is India planning to buying f15ex?

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Is India planning to buying f15ex?

F-15EX fighter jet for India Boeing has received a licence from the US government to offer its F-15EX fighter jet to the Indian Air Force. Boeing will compete with Sweden’s Gripen and France’s Rafale among others for the Indian Air Force’s plan to buy 114 multi-role aircraft to replace its Soviet-era fleet.

How many f15ex does the US have?

Even the Air Force was surprised to find out it was getting the F-15EX, let alone 144 of them. Eventually, the F-15EX will replace the aging F-15C/D, and those aircraft will be decommissioned. The Air Force currently flies 235 aging F-15C/Ds that were in line to either be decommissioned or upgraded.

Which countries have F-15EX?

8.1 Germany.

  • 8.2 Netherlands.
  • 8.3 Japan.
  • 8.4 Israel.
  • 8.5 Saudi Arabia.
  • 8.6 United Kingdom.
  • 8.7 United States. 8.7.1 F-15A. 8.7.2 F-15B. 8.7.3 F-15C.
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    How much does a f15ex cost?

    Although the F-15EX’s per-unit cost of $87.7 million is slightly more than the F-35’s $77.9 million, the F-15EX’s operating cost of $27,000 an hour is expected to be lower than that of the F-35, which Lockheed Martin says is $36,000.

    How good is f-15EX?

    The F-15EX is significantly heavier than all the other aircraft on offer to the Indian Air Force and can carry a payload of nearly 13 tonnes of air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons and fuel tanks, significantly more than the Dassault Rafale.

    Is the F-15EX Stealth?

    That all seems pretty impressive, however, while considered a massively upgraded fourth-generation aircraft balancing itself on an interesting boundary between fourth-and-fifth-generation aircraft, the F-15EX strike fighter is of course much less stealthy than full fifth-generation platforms such as the F-22 Raptor and …

    Can Israel buy f15ex?

    Why Israel Is Not Interested In F-15EX Apart from the US, Israel deploys a mix of F-15 and F-35 fighters. However, according to reports, the latter does not have plans of purchasing the new F-15EX variant any time soon.

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    Does the Air Force have a new fighter jet?

    Last year, the U.S. Air Force shockingly revealed it had designed, built, and tested a secret new fighter jet in the span of just one year. The mysterious fighter is part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, an Air Force project designed to supplement and eventually replace the F-22 Raptor.