McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle บ.ขับไล่ยุคที่ 4 ที่มีแต้มสังหารมากที่สุด : | MILITARY TIPS by LT EP22

Video from the channel LT STUDIO about McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 28:50. Video type: Documentary.

Episode 22 of the Thai series Military Tips by LT, dedicated to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The narrator presents it as the fourth-generation fighter with the most kills, more than a hundred enemy aircraft. It covers the origin of the program, the design, the systems of the A/B and C/D versions, its operators and its combat record. The Strike Eagle family is left for another episode.

The video places the origin at the start of the Vietnam War. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was pushing the Air Force and the Navy to use common aircraft, which led to the TFX program that produced the F-111. The formal requirements of the F-X program were set in October 1965. Two things weighed heavily: the lessons of Vietnam, where the F-4 Phantom II was the only aircraft able to match the MiGs, and John Boyd's energy-maneuverability theory. With these, the project came to prioritize agility and thrust-to-weight ratio over top speed. The unveiling of the MiG-25 at Domodedovo in 1967 heightened concern at the Pentagon. The request for proposals was sent out in September 1968, and NASA contributed the LFAX concepts. After General Dynamics was eliminated, Fairchild Republic, North American Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas competed, and McDonnell Douglas was declared the winner on 23 December 1969.

The F-15 has a metal semi-monocoque fuselage with both engines inside, a high wing with 45-degree sweep, twin tails and a large dorsal airbrake. According to the video, it climbs to 30,000 feet in about 60 seconds and reaches Mach 1.2 at sea level and Mach 2.5 at altitude. It is powered by Pratt & Whitney F100 engines, first the PW-100 and later the PW-220, which solved the afterburner failures. The radar is Hughes' AN/APG-63, later upgraded to the (V)1, (V)2 and (V)3 versions. Armament includes an M61A1 cannon with 940 rounds and nine hardpoints for 16,000 pounds, carrying AIM-9, AIM-7 and AIM-120 missiles. It entered service in the United States in November 1974. It was also adopted by Israel, Japan (as the F-15J and F-15DJ, assembled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) and Saudi Arabia, with more than 1,100 examples built of the A to D and J versions. The video recalls an F-15 that landed after losing a wing in a mid-air collision, the destruction of the Solwind satellite with an ASM-135 missile, and the 34 Iraqi aircraft destroyed by F-15Cs in the 1991 Gulf War.