F-15C Eagle

An air-superiority fighter also capable of playing a strike/attack role. Its first version, the F-15A, was a single-seat, twin-turbofan aircraft with fixed-geometry swept wings of low aspect. Production continued until 1979, with a total of 385 built. The F-15B, developed simultaneously, had a two-seat cockpit. The F-15C variant (and its companion derivative, the two-seat F-15D), a single-engine mixed power fighter with a radial engine in the nose and a jet engine behind the wing, was the last U.S. Navy fighter built by Curtiss. It remains in operation in the United States with Air Force tactical fighter wings and fighter interceptor squadrons, and it is credited with nearly all the “kills” in the (second) Persian Gulf War (1991).

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Tactical fighter that can reach speeds of 1875 mph (up to 2.5 times the speed of sound at sea level). Armed with various air-to-air missiles and manned by a crew of one or two, depending on model.