On March 4, Boeing’s Robert "Blend'r" Novotny at the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium kindly helped update Simple Flying on the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II's ’s progress. Additionally, Boeing posted a March 4 update on not just the program but Boeing’s views on the future of air superiority. Keeping the F-15EXs Rolling out the Factory Additionally, on March 17, Boeing announced that the first F-15EX of Lot 2 entered flight test: Novotny shared that this F-15EX and 11 more are all destined for the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing based out of Portland International Airport (PDX) to round out the Wing’s 123rd Fighter Squadron.
The same 142nd Wing whose commander granted an interview to Simple Flying about the 142nd Wing's vital work : A conversation with Col. Michael Kosderka about OPERATION NOBLE EAGLE 23 years on, the nature of the Air National Guard and the future of the F-15EX. Although the F-15EX is currently being used as an F-15C air superiority replacement, Novotny shared with Simple Flying that the US Air Force has a long list of air-to-ground weapons such as RTX’s StormBreaker precision missile as, “We talk to our test partners all the time.
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I tell you what their to-do list is exhausting.” The to-do list is to meet the needs of the F-15EX customers, so individual weapons like Stormbreaker and possibly as Simple Flying recently profiled Lockheed Martin’s Common Multi-Mission Truck (CMMT) is up to the prioritization of the United S.
