F-15 Eagle, Still King Of The Hill !

[billt]

http://www.youtube.com/user/billt460#p/a/f/0/HLka4GoUbLo

http://www.youtube.com/user/billt460#p/a/f/1/S7YAN9--3MA

In 1975 a unpainted, stock F-15 "Streak Eagle" smashed a total of 8 time to climb records up to over 100,000 feet that still stand to this day. Not even the F-22 Raptor can match it's climb rate. It's faster to 50,000 ft. than the Saturn V rocket that took us to the Moon!  Bill T.

[billt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GE_qKsZMs

http://www.bestrussiantour.com/jet_flights/edge_space_mig31_fighter_jet

If your wallet is thick enough, you can do something similar in a Mig 25 or a Mig 31. I read somewhere the cost is around $40,000.00 US.

[Pathfinder]

Amazing airplane.

It still boggles my mind that a 15-ton aircraft (empty) can climb 90 degrees and still accelerate through the speed of sound.. Truly amazing.

[GUNS-R-US]

I can't say I remember that as I'm a little young for that particular speed flight, but I spent the first few years of the 90's as a avionics tech on the F15 it was and is a great airplane! But I have to say the F22 has it beat in the Air - Air fight hands down. Though neither of them is my favorite aircraft! I like the A10 Thunderbolt!!!! Theirs just something about flying low and slow, with a 30mm Cannon shooting up your enemy at will!

[billt]

One thing that I found amazing was the F-15 lifted off from a dead stop in 400 feet, or a little over 7 plane lengths! If you noticed they had it fastened to the runway until the pilot got both burners lit, and up to full thrust. There is no way the brakes could hold it with the thrust to weight ratio it has. And the thing to remember is this is 38 year old technology, and to this day nothing can out climb it!  Bill T.

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[fightingquaker13]

I can't say I remember that as I'm a little young for that particular speed flight, but I spent the first few years of the 90's as a avionics tech on the F15 it was and is a great airplane! But I have to say the F22 has it beat in the Air - Air fight hands down. Though neither of them is my favorite aircraft! I like the A10 Thunderbolt!!!! Theirs just something about flying low and slow, with a 30mm Cannon shooting up your enemy at will!

Agreed on the wart hog, they are just plain cool, and frankly more useful today than either the F-15 or F-22. The Taliban don't have much of an aiforce (not counting American Airlines ) and nothing the Russians or Chinese can put in air can touch the new F-15s with improved avionics. I'm a big fan of the " better to have and not need" school of thought, but one does have to wonder how many $100 millon air superiority fighters we need vs a bettter battle rifle for the Marines.
FQ13

[billt]

how many $100 millon air superiority fighters we need vs a bettter battle rifle for the Marines.
FQ13

Especially now with the price of AK-47's dropping to under $400.00 in many areas.     Bill T.

[fightingquaker13]

Especially now with the price of AK-47's dropping to under $400.00 in many areas.     Bill T.

And that is the truth. Buy the license, let an American company improve it, and you're in the field in 12 months at well under $1k per unit. Yet pride won't let us do it, and that's all it is, pride.
FQ13

[GUNS-R-US]

Especially now with the price of AK-47's dropping to under $400.00 in many areas.     Bill T.

Keep dreaming billt and FQ! No matter how much or how little the cost might be the Marines aint never going to get AK's!!!!

[billt]

I just heard the cost of one soldier for one year in Afghanistan is $1,000,000.00 (one million dollars). How can that be? That is $2,379.72 A DAY!