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Air Force Officials: Potential F-15X Buy Is About Capacity

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

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Air Force Officials: Potential F-15X Buy Is About Capacity

Boeing's F-15 Advanced Eagle, an upgraded version of the F-15E Strike Eagle. (Photo: Boeing)

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force’s two senior leaders made clear Feb. 28 that the decision to procure a new variant of Boeing’s [BA] F-15 fighter jet is tied to increasing aircraft quantities, while continuing to buy more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters within the budget constraints the service has today. The Air Force’s initial fiscal year 2020 budget proposal “did not include additional fourth-generation aircraft,” Secretary Heather Wilson said at a Thursday media roundtable at the Air Force Association’s Air…

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