Boeing F-15E+ Super Eagle unveiled

Source URL: http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/10/05/Navigation/181/209633/‘Not+your+father’s+Oldsmobile’+Boeing+F-15E%2b+Super+Eagle.html
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Boeing has revealed details of the proposed F-15E+ "Super Eagle", which is being offered as a "fourth-generation plus" fighter stopgap to the US Air Force in case of significant delays to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).

The new-build proposal, expected to be offered at a target price of $59 million (2006 US dollars) versus roughly $60 million-plus for the baseline F-35, would be available in 2012-13 assuming an authority to proceed decision in 2009. “That would butt-up against when the last F-15SGs [for Singapore] come off the line,” says Boeing USAF programmes business development director, Dick Banholzer. Although acknowledging the lukewarm reception the proposal has so far received from USAF chief Gen Michael Moseley, Banholzer says the F-15E+ is being offered “in the event of a catastrophic event like JSF being delayed. We have an option available to him that fits the needs of today.”

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