Specifications (F-15E)
Data from USAF fact sheet, Davies
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 63.8 ft (19.43 m)
- Wingspan: 42.8 ft (13.05 m)
- Height: 18.5 ft (5.63 m)
- Wing area: 608 ft² (56.5 m²)
- Airfoil: NACA 64A006.6 root, NACA 64A203 tip
- Empty weight: 31,700 lb (14,300 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 81,000 lb (36,700 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney F100-229 afterburning turbofans, 29,000 lbf (129 kN) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 2.5+ (1,650+ mph, 2,660+ km/h)
- Combat radius: 790 mi (1,150 mi (max))
- Ferry range: 2,400 mi (2,100 nmi, 3,900 km) with conformal fuel tank and three external fuel tanks
- Service ceiling: 60,000 ft (18,200 m)
- Rate of climb: 50,000+ ft/min (254+ m/s)
- Thrust/weight: 0.93
Armament
- Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61 Vulcan 6-barreled gatling cannon, 510 rounds of either M-56 or PGU-28 ammunition
- Hardpoints: 2 wing pylons, fuselage pylons, bomb racks on CFTs with a capacity of 23,000 lb (10,400 kg) of external fuel and ordnance
- Missiles: **Air-to-air missiles:
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- 4× AIM-9M Sidewinder or 4× AIM-120 AMRAAM, and
- 4× AIM-7M Sparrow or additional 4× AIM-120 AMRAAM
- Air-to-surface missiles:
- 6× AGM-65 Maverick
- AGM-130
- AGM-84 Harpoon
- AGM-84K SLAM-ER
- AGM-154 JSOW
- AGM-158 JASSM
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- Bombs: **B61 nuclear bomb
- Mark 82 bomb
- Mark 84 bomb
- CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition
- CBU-89 Gator
- CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
- CBU-103 CEM
- CBU-104 Gator
- CBU-105 SFW
- CBU-107 Passive Attack Weapon
- GBU-10 Paveway II
- GBU-12 Paveway II
- GBU-15
- GBU-24 Paveway III
- GBU-27 Paveway III
- GBU-28
- GBU-31 JDAM
- GBU-38 JDAM
- GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb
- GBU-51 Paveway II
- GBU-54 Laser JDAM
- Others:
- up to 3× 600 US gallons (2,300 L) external drop tanks for ferry flight or extended range/loitering time.
Avionics
- Radar:
- Raytheon AN/APG-70
- Targeting pods:
- LANTIRN or Lockheed Martin Sniper XR or LITENING targeting pods
- Countermeasures:
- Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems AN/ALQ-131 electronic countermeasures pod
- Hazeltine AN/APX-76 or Raytheon AN/APX-119 Identify Friend/Foe (IFF) interrogator
- Magnavox AN/ALQ-128 Electronic Warfare Warning Set (EWWS) – part of Tactical Electronic Warfare Systems (TEWS)
- Loral AN/ALR-56 Radar warning receivers (RWR) – part of TEWS
- Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems ALQ-135 Internal Countermeasures System (ICS) – part of TEWS
- Marconi AN/ALE-45 Chaff/Flares dispenser system – part of TEWS
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