Here’s a look at seven things to know about the F-15 fighter jet: High thrust-to-weight ratio and low wing-loading: A key to ...

The F-15 Eagle - a twin-engine, supersonic fighter jet - first flew in 1972 ... needs to reach Mach speeds, and the high engine thrust-to-weight ratio and low wing-loading enables the aircraft ...

That’s because the look-down/shoot-down capability gave significant advantages to the F-15 for engaging low-flying targets ..

Viktor Belenko, a Soviet pilot, defected to the West in 1976 by flying his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan, shocking both the Soviet ...

The Foxhound's main armament is the R-33 long-range missile, which is similar to the F-14s AIM-51 Phoenix missile ... the legendary high-altitude US spy plane. A Russian pilot claimed he was ...

The F-15's superior maneuverability and acceleration are achieved through its high engine thrust-to-weight ratio and low-wing loading. It was the first U.S. operational aircraft whose engines ...

While the design of the fighter jet may seem set in stone these days, in the decades after World War II, companies tried out ...

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a supersonic twin-engine stealth fighter. Designed as an air superiority fighter it has ...

There are several different types of military aircraft, but one significant example is the fighter jet ... design of the F-15 Eagle features a high thrust-to-weight ratio and low wing load ...

Army Special Forces soldiers trained in mountaineering, high-angle rescue and technical ... injuries and deaths. In May, an F-35 fighter jet on its way from Texas to Edwards Air Force Base near ...

Military 4.5-generation jets feature active electronically scanned array radar, high ... the F-35C and F-35B jets even with upgrades, mainly because the J-15 is only a fourth-generation jet ...

NASA flew more than 18,000 F-104 research flights from 1956 to 1994 at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. During one landmark high-speed test, a jet flew a series of shuttle ...