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More than 50 years after making its first flight, the F15 Eagle remains one of the most capable fighter aircraft ever developed.

The F15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and longrange airtoair missiles had rendered closerange aerial combat a thing of the past. So fighter jets like venerable the Mcdonnell Douglas F4 Phantom were not engineered to be light or agile like their predecessors. Instead, they were designed to be heavilyloaded with missiles and carry powerful radars. Their pilots were no longer trained to dogfight, as they would engage the enemy at great distances, well beyond visual range.

But in the Vietnam War, military planners learned the hard way that the age of dogfighting was far from over. American pilots were being downed at alarming rates. The Friend or Foe (IFF) systems designed to identify enemy targets proved unreliable, forcing Air Force pilots to get in close to visually identify targets. At closerange, up against more agile Sovietbuilt MiGs, the F4s were at a disadvantage. They were less agile than the MiGs, lacked a gun for closerange combat, and their pilots weren’t properly trained. To make matters worse, 1967, the Soviet Union looked set to unveil what appeared to be a new superfighter built for extreme maneuverability.

The devastating experience from Vietnam and concerns being outclassed in the skies pushed the United States to develop a new airsuperiority fighter that could face off with any current or future Sovietbuilt fighter. The result would be a twinengine, highperformance, allweather air superiority fighter known for its incredible acceleration and agility. Engineered from the ground up for tactical dominance in any air space, the F15 holds the distinction of over a hundred aerial victories without a single defeat.

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