The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
5 Feb. 2019 -- The F-15X, which takes a 1970s airframe design and packs it with 21st century electronics technologies, also features avionics like updated radio and satellite communications; the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) electronic warfare and electronic surveillance suite; and Legion Pod-mounted infrared search and track system (IRST).
With the help of the company's new AMBER missile carrying racks, the F-15X will be able to carry a whopping 22 air-to-air missiles during a single sortie. Alternatively, it could fly with eight air-to-air missiles and 28 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs), or up to seven 2,000-pound bombs and eight air-to-air missiles.
What the F-15X doesn't include is a high price. Boeing intends to deliver the F-15X at a flyaway cost well below that of an F-35A -- which runs about $95 million per copy -- under a fixed-price contract. In other words, whatever the jets actually end up costing, the Pentagon will pay a fixed price -- Boeing would have to eat any overages.
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John Keller, chief editor
Military & Aerospace Electronics
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