Boeing will offer the advanced F-15 Silent Eagle to South Korea in the third phase of the ongoing F-X competition to replace the country’s remaining F-4 Phantoms. “Their request for proposal just came out on Jan. 30, and we are offering the Silent Eagle,” Brad Jones, Boeing’s F-15 systems combat director, told the Daily Report last week at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla. “The design is progressing and, yes, it will be ready” in time for the competition, added Jones, during his media briefing at the show. Korean Aircraft Industries is partnered with Boeing to design the aircraft’s conformal weapons bays, which are due to undergo one-fifth-scale wind-tunnel testing later this year, said Jones. With its low radar cross section, the Silent Eagle would be rapidly reconfigurable between air-to-air, air-to-ground, and radar-evading mission profiles, he said. Still in the design stage, Silent Eagle could be delivered by 2015 and be combat ready by 2016, stated Jones during his Feb. 23 briefing.
In written testimony to the Senate, the nominee to oversee the Air Force’s installations and energy enterprise endorsed the continued privatization of military housing and called for the department to think more during the acquisition process about how it will power new weapons systems when the logistics supply chain is…
