F-15 - не так все гладко

"troll patrol":

Считаете, что досрочная отправка в утиль такого количества самолетов не является массовой? Тем более, что планы о продлении срока службы более 4 сотен самолетов модификаций с Ц по Д до 2025 г. накрылись медным тазом. Я так не считаю.

 

я, если честно, дальше того инцидента никогда не копал. а что, перечисленные машины с выявленными дефектами отправили в утиль? и планы накрылись медным тазом? и были ли они вообще, эти планы по продлению срока службы "4 сотен C/D" до 2025, учитывая назначенный срок службы в 9067 часов? я что-то никакого упоминания про них не нашел, никаких изменений в планах создания "Golden Fleet" из модернизированных 176 машин которые будут оставаться на службе до 2025 года, а то и дальше, тоже

Dubai 2007: Temporary problems leave Eagle’s bright prospects undimmed

Although the F-15’s planned appearance at Dubai was disrupted by an accident and fleet-wide grounding, Boeing remains confident that the aircraft has... // www.flightglobal.com

 

All existing Eagle operators plan to keep their F-15 aircraft in service for many years to come, and all are actively pursuing upgrade and modernisation programmes to ensure that their F-15s remain viable, relevant and supportable, Winkler adds. The USAF itself plans to keep a ‘Golden Fleet’ of around 178 F-15C/D fighter Eagles until around 2025, complementing the F-22A Raptor, while its 224 F-15E fighter-bombers will remain in service for even longer.

 

0211fighters.pdf

A fatigue test was ordered for the F-15C after an Air National Guard Eagle broke in half during a practice dogfight in 2007, leading to a months-long grounding of the F-15C/D fleet. The problem was a failure of longerons expected to last the life of the airplane, but the F-15 has served well beyond its planned lifetime.
A series of inspections and some repairs cleared the fleet to return to duty, but the test is considered essential in getting the full story of what F-15 maintainers can expect as the aircraft continues to age.
The Air Force plans to retain 176 F-15Cs. Only two units—one at Kadena
AB, Japan, and one at RAF Lakenheath in Britain—will serve with the active
duty. Some 54 F-15Cs are on contract to be fitted with an AESA radar, and
all F-15Cs are now fitted with the Joint Helmet Mounted Cuing System. The F-
15Cs will also receive an IRST system to detect stealthy targets.
The F-15 fatigue test is “on contract,” Andersen said but lags the F-16 test by
“about a year and a half.” It is planned to run from Fiscal 2012 to 2015. Assuming no big surprises show up in the test, “we could keep them well past
2025, into about the 2030 time frame,” Andersen said.
Likewise, the Air Force has decided to do a stress test on an F-15E Strike Eagle. It will begin about a year after the F-15C test gets under way. A specific aircraft to undergo the test hasn’t been chosen yet, but one will have to be sacrificed.
Unlike the F-15Cs, which will phase out in the next 15 to 20 years, the E fleet
is expected to serve another 25 yeaкs or more. The aircraft was built later, with tougher, heavier load-bearing structures in order to carry a heavy attack weapons load. That, and expected use of lighter ordnance, should mean the Strike Eagles can make it into the late 2030s.

 

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