U.S. Air Force Downsizing F-15 Fleet, Plans Targeted Upgrades

Brian Everstine March 15, 2024
U.S. Air Force F-15E aircraft

F-15Es at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, are changing tactics as the service focuses on potential combat in the Indo-Pacific region.


 

Credit: Brian Everstine/AW&ST
After briefly going supersonic above snow-capped mountains over southern Idaho, the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, call sign “Grimm,” pulls the throttle to make the aircraft’s twin Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engines slow for a dive. The range operator, known as Cowboy Control, radioed the pilot...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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