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Why the F-15 radar couldn’t see the Blackbird during Eagle Bait sorties
‘One of the interesting discoveries from the Eagle Bait was that F-15s couldn’t even find us when everything was shut down and we told...
The Celestial Eagle, the only F-15 fighter jet to destroy a satellite
The F-15 Eagle
The F-15 Eagle is a fighter jet capable of operating in all weather conditions, built to establish and maintain air supremacy. It...
How an Israeli pilot was able to land his F-15 Baz with one wing missing
‘I told Yehoar to prepare to eject, but when I lit the afterburners, the spin stopped and the nose came up.’ Ziv Nedivi, Israeli...
The SR-71 Blackbird was so fast that the F-15 Eagle radar couldn’t detect it
‘Don and I, as well as many other crewmembers, had flown numerous ‘Tomcat Chase’ and ‘Eagle Bait’ sorties against our best fighters—the Navy’s F-14s...
The Shah of Iran preferred the F-14 for air supremacy over the F-15, an air superiority fighter
The Shah was a very intelligent man and knew the benefits that an F-14/AWG-9/PHOENIX system would provide in defending the borders of his country...