Boeing’s F-15EX with ‘digital backbone’ completes its first test flight
It will replace some of the Air Force’s aging F-15C / D jets
This week, Boeing’s F-15EX fighter jet completed with successful your first test flight. Like the F-15 jets, the Air Force has been flying for decades, but in many ways, it is a more modern fighter jet.
It features fly-by-wire flight controls, a fully digital cockpit powered by an ADCP-II mission computer, and most importantly for the Air Force, a “digital backbone” that will allow it to be upgraded with new technologies as required. necessary.
Boeing will deliver the first two F-15EX jets to the Air Force in late March 40-4
The F-15EX will replace the old Air Force F-15C and D jets, many of which have been in service for more than 35 years.
With some of those planes becoming safety hazards for their pilots, the Air Force needed to modernize or replace them with new ones.
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The Defense Department considered buying add-on traditional F-35 jets, but with the total cost of that program expected to reach $ 1.5 billion, it instead settled on the F-15EX as the more budget-conscious option.
The first batch of eight planes will cost $ 1. 2 billion, and the total execution of 144 aircraft is expected to cost no more than $ 23 billion.
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