USAF Again Trims F-15EX Buy

Three F-15EXs on the runway at Eglin AFB, Florida, in December 2023.

Credit: DOD
The U.S. Air Force is changing course again on plans for its Boeing F-15EX Eagle II in the service’s fiscal 2025 budget request, looking to buy 18 of the aircraft to end the overall program. The service originally planned to buy 24 F-15EXs for a total fleet of 104. The new plans bring the overall...
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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