The F-15N Sea Eagle

[Three Down and Locked]

Imagine A carrier based F- 15 EX.

Sea Eagle: America's plan to put the F-15 on aircraft carriers

Before the F-14 Tomcat earned fame in "Top Gun," the U.S. Navy nearly ended up flying the F-15 off aircraft carriers instead.

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[NovemberEcho]

Right next to the Sea Raptor

NATF-22: The sweep-wing F-22 Congress wanted for carrier duty - Sandboxx

The U.S. Air Force's venerable F-22 Raptor is widely seen as the world's most capable air superiority fighter, but for a short time, it was nearly joined by a sister platform modified specifically for the Navy in the NATF-22. The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor came about as a result of the U.S. Air...

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[woodreau]

I envision a lot of broken landing gears. They’d need to entirely redo the landing gear to make it work longer term.

 

[MikeD]

I envision a lot of broken landing gears. They’d need to entirely redo the landing gear to make it work longer term.

There is indeed a reason why some USAF tactical aircraft have come from USN carrier aircraft, but not the other way around.

 

[Bandit_Driver]

They need to redo a lot on that airplane for the punishment it will take being slammed on to the deck repeatedly.
Tail hook, gear are two main things...
What about the rest of the aircraft structures. Is it even designed for repeated hard landings.
Avionics may get a good thrashing too...

 

[Lawman]

They need to redo a lot on that airplane for the punishment it will take being slammed on to the deck repeatedly.
Tail hook, gear are two main things...
What about the rest of the aircraft structures. Is it even designed for repeated hard landings.
Avionics may get a good thrashing too...

Total trap life limit of 9…. Ok get me another one.

All the things that make the Eagle so good go away when you start retrofitting ten thousand lbs of non mission enabling stuff to the airframe to make it live on a ship.


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[knot4u]

The F-15 was/is a great fighter aircraft, so is the F-16. The fact that they don't have a huge combat record should speak volumes. No one was willing to fight them.

 

[Inverted]

The F-15 was/is a great fighter aircraft, so is the F-16. The fact that they don't have a huge combat record should speak volumes. No one was willing to fight them.

Both have glowing combat records. Ask the Israeli Air Force.

 

[knot4u]

Both have glowing combat records. Ask the Israeli Air Force.

I know, when they fight it’s fangs out, they fight without restrictions. The fact that they use our hardware, or modified versions of it, and win isn’t surprising.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Both have glowing combat records. Ask the Israeli Air Force.

I mean yeah, but they were going up against countries with much older aircraft. They weren't going up against other 4th gen fighters.

 

[Inverted]

I mean yeah, but they were going up against countries with much older aircraft. They weren't going up against other 4th gen fighters.

Every country we have battled since WWII has had inferior aircraft. Isn’t that the point?

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Every country we have battled since WWII has had inferior aircraft. Isn’t that the point?

It's an advantage, yes. But probably one that we won't have for too much longer with the current 5th gen and future 6th gen fighters coming out of both Russia and China.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Every country we have battled since WWII has had inferior aircraft. Isn’t that the point?

Or in some cases no airplanes at all.

 

[Adler]

Both have glowing combat records. Ask the Israeli Air Force.

I mean yeah, but they were going up against countries with much older aircraft. They weren't going up against other 4th gen fighters.

It all started with Israeli Messerschmitts vs Egyptian Spitfires

 

[USMCmech]

It's an advantage, yes. But probably one that we won't have for too much longer with the current 5th gen and future 6th gen fighters coming out of both Russia and China.

Russia and China are really good at building prototypes that look good on paper and airshows, but then they can't actually produce them in significant numbers. Meanwhile we build more F-35s in a month than they do in a year.

 

[NovemberEcho]

Every country we have battled since WWII has had inferior aircraft. Isn’t that the point?

not true in Korea and not true in Vietnam either. Where we did surpass our foes was in training.

 

[///AMG]

Russia and China are really good at building prototypes that look good on paper and airshows, but then they can't actually produce them in significant numbers. Meanwhile we build more F-35s in a month than they do in a year.

Yeah agreed, Russia and China both have low monthly production numbers for the F-35

 

[FlyingAccountant]

not true in Korea and not true in Vietnam either. Where we did surpass our foes was in training.

Iraq sent up Mig 29s against USAF F15s in Desert Storm and they didn't fair well either.

 

[Three Down and Locked]

I always thought the Warthog would make a formidable carrier based strike aircraft. Much like My former platform (Viking) it has turbofan engines and the wings appear to be capable of being possibly modified to fold the same way (as the S-3). Additionally with low approach speeds it would seemingly be a piece of cake during CARQUALS.