F15 (2024)

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How many F-15s have been shot down? ›

It's absolutely true that no F-15 has ever been shot down in air to air combat; it's not true that no F-15 has ever been shot down period — two American F-15s were shot down by Iraqi surface-to-air weapons during the Gulf War, and one Japanese F-15 was shot down during a training mission when his own wingman ...

It is among the most successful modern fighters, with over 100 victories and no losses in aerial combat, with the majority of the kills by the Israeli Air Force. The Eagle has been exported to many countries including Israel, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.

The F-15 has never lost a dogfight

That's right folks, the F-15 has an air-to-air record of 104 and 0. That's better than the F-16 (76-1), the F-14 Tomcat (135-4), and even Mike Tyson (50-6).

The F-15EX is designed for interoperability within the joint force. It's a lethal, survivable weapons system that provides the range, maneuverability and lethality where & when it matters - across the entire mission profile - to deter and defeat aggression.

The F-15 Eagle is a fighter jet that originally made by McDonnell-Douglas (later Boeing). It is known around the world for its toughness and undefeated record, meaning that it has never been shot down by an enemy plane.

In nearly two decades of official operation, no F-22 Raptor stealth fighter has ever been shot down before, but there have been a few that have crashed due to accidents.

A number of features make the F-15C an ideal dogfighter. With a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1, it is one of the few fighters with that power advantage, so it can accelerate during a vertical climb. And the large lifting surface of the fuselage enables the Eagle to keep flying even with a lot of battle damage.

Only the USAF has lost F-16s in combat with 4 officially recorded as of today.

The American F-15 Eagle can reach a maximum speed of Mach 2.5 or 1,650 mph. It comes in a variety of versions, such as the F-15E Strike Eagle and the F-15N Sea Eagle, to meet diverse needs. For this reason, the plane is still used today by several air forces.

The F-15 has never been shot down in a dogfight, while many MiG-29s have; some by F-15s. In 1999, an F-15 shot down two MiG-29s in one dogfight. The Pilot, Jeff Hwang, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his victories.

Has an F-22 ever lost a dog fight? ›

Despite the F-22 Raptor's reputation as the world's most capable air superiority fighter, the stealth jet has lost a number of notional dogfights over the years to older and less advanced platforms like the F-16 and even the Navy's electronic-warfare specialist, the EA-18G Growler.

1991 (Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm) January 17 – An F/A-18C Hornet (Bureau Number 163484) was shot down by an Iraqi Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 in an air-to-air engagement. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher, of VFA-81 was killed but his body was not found until July 2009.

The F-22, a critical component of the Global Strike Task Force, is designed to project air dominance, rapidly and at great distances and defeat threats attempting to deny access to our nation's Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The F-22 cannot be matched by any known or projected fighter aircraft.

And its advanced electronic warfare system and integrated avionics allowed pilots to precisely aim its air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and bombs. Perhaps the most incredible feature of the F-22 is a thrust-vectoring system that makes it extremely agile in a dogfight.

By the end of the war, the U.S. Air Force claimed to have shot down 792 MiG-15s for seventy-eight Sabers lost in air-to-air combat, a 10:1 kill ratio—while the Communist states claimed they had come out ahead with 1,100 U.N. aircraft shot down, including 650 Sabres!

175 have been lost to non combat accidents but that only accounts for 1 loss per 50,000 flight hours making it one of the safest fighter jets to have ever been built. You have to understand the first test flight of the A model was in 1972 which was 50 years ago!

Only the USAF has lost F-16s in combat with 4 officially recorded as of today. There were four originally during the Gulf War, but the premature bomb detonation under one aircraft was eventually ruled out.