Sir, it would TRULY be an honor to shake your hand! You were a Thunderbird Pilot, F-15E Pilot & a Commercial Airline Pilot! WOW!!! THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!! Also, great video on the OUTSTANDING GUCCI F-15EX!!!

If you are responsible for naming this thing F-ONE5EX, I need you in my office first thing in the morning. That's dirtier than B-1R! You're getting promoted son.

@@fluff_ruff It took a moment to get it. 😂

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Why do they call it "Eagle II"? Isn't that usually reserved for a completely new airplane (e.g. Lightning II, Phantom II) rather than a major update?

@@blurglide From the inside it is a 'completely new airplane' the ability to locate and destroy targets as a team will be a huge 'force multiplier'.

Ft Rucker??? I never meet anyone from Ft Rucker... I was a US Army Combat Medic, I was at Ft Rucker from 88 to 90, then after Desert Storm went to Ft Sam Houston, and the to Panama to Ft. Sherman. ETS 02/10/1996. Earned my Airborne wings at Ft Campbell with the 101st and my Air Assault wings at Ft Rucker. Took many rides in Blackhawks. WHOOOORAAAAAH #army

NOMADS and Test Wing. 💥

I would have loved to have had a chance to fly the F-4. But as I was finishing UPT, they were being phased out.

The fact that its still the top dog some 50 years later is saying how good the engineers that designed the airplane. McDonald Douglas out did themselves.

Well said! I was born in 78. My uncle is gone by out lived by the B-52 but he's come to terms with it lol.

This is how I felt about the B-52 when I enlisted. My grandfather was a tail gunner on the B-52 during Operation Chrome Dome and Vietnam. He flew on every model except the H model. I felt if I would have flown or worked on those airframes I could possibly have been on the same airframe as my grandfather.

makes me wonder why the F16 or the F22 are irrelevant now compared to this.

Is it impressive, or an act of desperation? I think desperation. The fact that the F-22 is already being prepped for pasture, but a 50-year old design upgrade is being co-opted from foreign interests isn't very confidence-inspiring. Our leadership has failed in positioning us in the best place possible, and our aging fleet is testament to that. We have no real plan for the present or the future.

I've heard the chat GPT is gonna take over the world before that. I'm already being very polite to Alexa, just in case

​@@pccunha You shouldn't own an alexa to begin with

@@JPROP-vb7sv so you take care, I'll tell Alexa you're harassing me eh

​​@@JPROP-vb7sv youre 100% right. I work in cyber security at Mandiant. Every damn time i show someone all the permissions and background data exchanged via apps, voice control systems etc they get infuriated saying shit like oh hell no they cant do that, my response is always yes, yes they can, how? By that lovely tos box you checked and agreed to. As a social experiment years ago someone made a run of the mill horoscope app (incredibly popular for stupid reasons) and guess what they put it in the tos? You promise to give "x" company your first born child, if you do not yet have a child, you promise to give the child to mentioned company upon discharge from hospital. You also agree if you do not ever have children, to pay an unspecified amount in dollars, tbd at a later date. You also agree to give x company 75% of your annual income in perpetuity i could go on with more of what it said but you get the picture. 1000s of people downloaded the app and agreed to the tos without reading it. Aside from the children which would of been an insane court battle 😂 the income agreement would of been fully enforceable dude. People have no clue what they're agreeing to 🤣

Hopefully!😮

Don't you think its had its day? its obsolete

​@Leonsmail air to air, yes, 100% the F-15EX is still relevant. Only thing that can kill one is air defense systems, not air to air platforms. Still easily compares 1:1 with the J-20 imo. Can quite literally fly and land with 1 wing...😂.

​@@LeonAust The F-15EX will be a missile truck to complement the F-22 and the F-35. The F-22 and the F-35 will paint targets for the F-15EX, which will launch it's missiles from standoff range, well beyond the reach of enemy air defense systems. It will be one member of an extremely lethal team.

@@classicgalactica5879 I think you nailed it Galactica, the EX isn't better or worse then the F35, they are two different beasts. The F22 will probably escort F35's into contested airspace while the EX stays at a safe distance waiting to launch it's literal truckload of Hypersonic and other Long Distance missiles at the targets being fed to it by the F35, it's my understanding the EX could launch missiles into the airspace without a lock and the F-35 can slave them to itself and direct them once in range, which is just nuts. No disrespect to Max as he is a actual fighter pilot and I'm a keyboard warrior, so I know nothing really but sometimes I think it's easy to have a mentality of one has to be better then the other but it's clear the Air Force and Military in general are using multiple platforms with multiple strengths interconnected as closely as possible to act as the ultimate force multiplier. The EX couldn't just roll up into Chinese airspace and achieve Air Supremacy on it's own, the F15 never faced a country with missile defense systems on par with it's own, which China reportedly has and alot of military planning and doctrine considers China to be the next biggest threat to the US and it's Allies.

the tail number tells you what year it rolled off the line. 0003 = 3rd frame produced in 1960 1024 = twenty fourth frame rolled in 1961 everything inside with the exception of the engines has been retooled on a staged cadence. engines and power generation is coming in the next 4-6 years.

The design philosophy (at least for comercial stuff) is much diffirent than it was in the 50s 60s , they didnt have computers back then so everything was overengineered , nowadays with sims and computers we design stuff to exactly last as long as we need it , or make it modular so we can replace things .F-22 was designed and built much later but its obsolete now , the F-35 was designed as a modular design and it will probably be in service for a long time

Ma Duce (M-2)is in service for over 90 years and will be for a while to come.

The SE was an awful, overly expensive concept that provided neither stealth nor much in the way of internal ordnance. It wasn't practical. The F-22, like the F-14, was a victim of politicians and lobbyists who were dead-set against it. I never heard anyone seriously suggest that the F-14D (and proposed future upgrades) had inferior capability to the F-18, but it was canceled and its production tooling was destroyed to make sure it would never be made again (similarly, some critical pieces of the F-22's tooling were found to be missing from storage). And likewise, no one would actually be willing to go up against an F-22 in the best F-15 unless they wanted to die. Honestly, which would you choose? No ejection seats allowed, so the loser dies. The F-15 has more kills, and that supposedly makes it superior, right? Well, the P-51 has a lot more kills than the F-15, which supposedly makes the P-51 superior. I have nothing against the F-15, but decisions don't always get made for the right or even relevant reasons.

@@rbrtck I didn't say that in reqard to how they perform. I said that because usually the Air Force tries to get the newest bells a whistles over an older airframe with a proven record. Which brings us to the record. The F-22 doesn't have a combat record and the F-15 has an actual record of 104-0. Even with 3rd party operators it still hasn't been shot down by another aircraft. Its combat record isn't the be all end all, but it does tell you how well a system operates in combat. Simulated battles and the test range are completely different from the battlefield. War has a way of telling you whether your system works well or not. It'll bring out all of the faults your system has. Which is why I don't like the F-35 and it's parade of white fuel trucks because it can't take hot fuel. You strawmanned my point hard there.

The f22 is a better plane then the f15 hands down. Its not even a contest.

@@erichvonmanstein6876 The Tiger was a better tank than the Sherman, but which one won the war?

@@xV0LK0Vx niether. Allied air and Naval power (mostly US) and American lend lease won the war.

I have a question for you. I don't know much about the process for becoming a fighter pilot and I'm curious about something... Let's say a kid wants to be a F-35 pilot and is applying to the army, are they going to start by training him on a small Cessna first or they're going straight to the F-35, or is there like a "ladder" of planes they generally get trained on before reaching the F-35?

@@Reth_Hard the army doesn't fly F-35s. Only the USAF, USMC & USN. And in all flight training, they start small - usually with a basic prop plane and go up from there. There's zero chance of a trainee pilot starting with the F-35. They'd lose them all in crashes. Plus the F-35 is single seat only & trainers are 2 seat (for student & instructor).

​@@321fightson Like I said, I don't know much about the US military! lol TBH, I don't even live in the US. I always thought the USAF, USMC & USN were all different sections of the US army, but apparently that's not the case? And do you know which planes a trainee would usually need to fly before reaching something more "serious" like the F-35?

@@Reth_Hard another example would be USN vs USAF pilots. Navy pilots need to learn how to land on and take off from a carrier (the USAF don't do this) so they do part of their training with the T-45 Goshawk - a carrier-ready jet), and USAF pilots are usually flying the T-38 Talon (and/or their new trainer the T-7 Redhawk). Helicopter pilots fly different training aircraft again. It's not a one-size-fits-all answer due to the different needs of each branch and the different roles pilots will end up training for.

@@321fightson do fighter pilots get to choose what they will fly? Or is it assigned to them( this is speaking if they already have good experience) ? Also thank you for your service

The F22 wont retire soon. The F35 isnt a good place. Not unless the US has a plane better than the F22 its not going anywhere.

@@nissan300ztt yes they are but there getting replaced by a upgraded f-22

@@captainc9977 That's not a replacement. That's an upgrade.

@@captainc9977 upgraded f22 is still an f22

Until NGAD shows up.

it doesnt get the press because its just become a normal to hear that F-15 won another battles. The press just like a bombastic news not a recurring good news. Typical of news agents today i think. I never think F-15 will be retired anytime soon considering the closest rival is F-35 and it's still in shambles with all the problems it currently has.

F-15EXs acting as missile carriers for F-35s is something I have heard talked about by others. F-35 would be much closer, using it's stealth and advanced sensors to provide information for the Eagle II over datalink, while the Eagle II lobs missiles without having to get close enough where it's lack of stealth could put it at risk of being shot down.

Yes it can act as missile truck artillery for stealth fighter spotters. What is less well known is that the F-15EX radar is extremely capable and could wind up doing the spotting for other fighters, even stealth fighters in some cases.

It might be classified but the idea itself is pretty known. The F-15 would probably make a decent missile truck. I'd prefer using something like a C-130 if only because they should theoretically be able to carry a LOT more missiles, but admittedly F-15's, by virtue of speed alone would probably be far more responsive.

This is not classified. This is the doctrine being advanced as the F22/35s simply don't have enough internal payload to perform the job against a numerically superior enemy. Only the F15-EX has the speed and payload to get close enough to hang back from forward stealth fighters, to launch missiles based on forward target lock. A C130 has higher payload but couldn't egress from an area of danger fast enough, nor could it keep up with the stealth fighters going in to acquire targets.

That’s exactly the plan.

IDF actually rebuilt that One Wing f15. And used it.

destroys the stealh aspect

What’s the point of the expensive stealth design, stealth design compromises & insane maintenance costs then?

@@411bvRGiskard If you have better radar and missiles enemy will; still be dead before they see you or can fire.

Thanks!

Awesome thanks!!

I believe the reason is because there’s already a version called the Super Eagle, but I can’t remember.

4500 more lbs of thrust is pretty insane considering how powerful the E is.

As if it was not powerful enough before. Amazing.

Will be interesting to see what the thrust to weight ratio is without the conformal fuel tanks.

Should definitely be able to supercruise then I'm assuming.

Right on! Glad to have you here!

C models aren't there anymore. Sad to see them go!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awesome. Welcome!!

Stoked to share!

Wonder is there same idea present in F-15 EX ..? Though, it is ofc different thing when more or less the whole plane is new. Different thing if just screen / cockpit is changed. F-15 RDR still looks familiar in video :)

You are essentially describing F-15SE Silent Eagle. IIRC (and it's a big if) Koreans and Saudis showed some interest but ultimately both went with F-15K and F-15SA respectively (F-15E Strike Eagles modified for these specific nation) and F-35s. It's just better to have bomb trucks and stealthy assassins, because something that's in between is neither.

No, Silent Eagle had different design features, It used RAM coatings that increased operating costs with marginal benefits. It lacked serpentine engine intakes which would have helped much more with low ongoing maintenance costs. But Boeing went for the cheaper redesign option. They could have built something truly compelling but Boeing executives have recently been miserly about R&D and favored slightly modified existing designs over clean sheet improvements. This was shown to be a mistake for both the civilian and military markets as Airbus and LM eat their lunch.

5th Gen just cost too much. Like the old issue with battleships, cost too much to risk so you send out all your cruisers. 4-4.5th gens are our generations cruisers lol