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And the F-15's design slogan was "Not a pound for air to ground". Guess what it's being used for now?
by cityhall 3y ago
And the F-15's design slogan was "Not a pound for air to ground". Guess what it's being used for now?
- justsomehnguy 3y agoQuite amusingly, Su-27 was an air superiority fighter at it's infancy.
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- snowwrestler 3y agoSame with the F-16, which started life as a skunkworks project that prioritized dogfighting but is today heavily used for close air support and bombing.
- dragonwriter 3y agoWhile the skunkworks project and even the initial government Lightweight Fighter project had an air-to-air dogfighting focus, the program under which the F-16 development was conpleted and it was eventually purchased was for a multirole fighter, that wasn't a post-purchase usage evolution.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThe F-15E Strike Eagle is a different, significantly heavier and higher payload was produced by a separate, later project abd competition from the original air-to-air F-15 (its competitor was thr F-16XL, which would have been the F-16E/F if selected.) And the F-15EX Eagle II is an even newer aircraft. The F-15C/D are still air-to-air fighters.