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The F-18 Super Hornet can be armed with a 22mm M61 Vulcan nose mounted Gatling gun, AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, AGM-65 Maverick, Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), AGM-88 HARM Anti-radiation and AGM-154 JSOW air-to-surface missiles, AGM-84 Harpoon anti- ship missiles, JAM Precision-guided munition, laser guided bombs, unguided iron bombs, CBU-87 cluster bombs, CBU-78 Gater bombs, CBU-97 bombs and Mk 20 Rockeye II bombs.į-15 Eagles are used by the US Air Force, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.į-18 Super Hornets are used by the US Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The F-15 Eagle can be armed with AIM-7F/M Sparrow missiles, AIM-120 AMRAAM advanced medium range air-to-air missiles, AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missiles and a M61A1 20 mm Gatling gun. The F-18 Super Hornet uses two General Electric F414 turbofan engines.īoeing is proposing a new GE-F414-EPE (Enhanced Performance Engines) for a 20% increase of thrust.Īn F-18 equipped with an AGM-84 SLAM-ER under the right wing (top) and two AN/AWW-13 Advanced Data Link pods under the left wing (bottom) Armament The F-15 Eagle uses two Pratt & Whitney F100 axial-flow turbofan engines with afterburners mounted side-by-side in the fuselage. These come with multi-function displays and can be operated independently. The F-18 Super Hornet has two cockpits: front and aft. It has a one-piece windshield and large canopy. The cockpit of the F-15 Eagle is mounted high in the forward fuselage. Its loaded weight is 21,320 kg.īoeing employees talk about some of the features offered in Boeing's F-15 Silent Eagle and F-18 Super Hornet in this video: The F-18 Super Hornet is 60 feet 1.25 inches long, with a wingspan of 44 feet 8.5 inches. The F-15 Eagle is 63 feet 9 inches long, with a wingspan of 42 feet 10 inches.
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It was underwent US Navy operational tests in 1999 and was officially approved in February 2000. It first flew on 29th November 1995 and flight testing began in 1996. It was first ordered by the US Navy in 1992 as a replacement for the F-14 Tomcat. The F-18 Super Hornet was proposed in the late 1980s as an improvement on early F-18 models and gets its name from the unique wing and tail configuration like that of a hornet. It was introduced in 1976 and was followed by other single-seat and two-seat models with extra fuel capacity and improved radar and engines.
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As the planes developed by the US Navy, such as the F-14 Tomcat, were unsuitable for these purposes, the US Air Force spearheaded the F-X program, which led to the development of the F-15A. The F-15 Eagle was developed as an air superiority fighter with both air-to-air and air-to-ground capabilities. In service and production in the US and AustraliaĢ0mm M61 Vulcan 6-barreled Gatling cannon, bombs, missiles, drop tanks.Ģ0mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun, missiles, bombsĪn F-15E Strike Eagle pops flares during an aerial training dog fight History Used primarily by the US, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Israel McDonnell Douglas Boeing Defense, Space and Security