Silent But Deadly: The F-15 Silent Eagle

On March 17, 2009, Boeing introduced a demonstration version in the F-15E’s upgraded version that has fifth generation fighter features. It was named consequently for its capacity to penetrate protected airspace undetected. This stealth is going to be optimized for air to air missions and far less efficient against ground based radars.
The $100 million F-15 Silent Eagle (SE) still in development and the company has been seeking other businesses being risk sharing partners as a way to reduce its development costs.
It carries a duration of 63.8ft, height of 18.5ft, wingspan of 42.8ft, wing area of 608 ft�, and maximum speed greater than 1,650mph. It can fly approximately 60,000ft and will weigh as much as 81,000lbs. australian aviation mag includes a seating capacity of 2 crew members. It is furnished with a 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun with 510 rounds of ammunition, various bombs, missiles, and external tanks.
It is additionally built with APG-82 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, DEWS Electronic warfare system, Digital “Fly-by-Wire” Flight Control System (DFCS), Lockheed Martin Sniper advanced electro-optical targeting system and Infrared Search and Track (IRST) system, and Link-16 fighter data link.
Boeing also eliminated the distinctive canted tails from your early prototype and production configuration from the proposed stealthy F-15 SE. According to Boeing F-15 project Vice President Mark Bass, the canted tail design, highlighted during Boeing’s F-15SE unveiling in St Louis, Missouri continues to be abandoned until later stages in the project.
In the meantime, the project is planning to start weapons firing tests late this year. Bass also mentioned a Raytheon AIM-9 or AIM-120 missile will be launched in July or August by an F-15 with the modified internal weapons bay.
The Silent Eagle was developed for current F-15 users like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea. But Boeing declared the F-15SE will be first formally provided to South Korea, which can be expected to launch a competition for a fighter contract noisy . 2011. South Korea is additionally thinking about the Lockheed Martin F-35.
Saudi Arabia was reported in September 2009, to become with the acquiring up to 72 F-15s. Although the exact variant is unspecified, they may be reported to be interested in the Silent Eagle.