Apart from this, another order of 402 Harpoon Block II missiles for Saudi Arabia was placed with Boeing under the NAVAIR. Prior to this contract, the Saudi government had put forth a request for acquiring 400 AGM 84Ls as part of an overall large weapons purchase deal worth $6.8 billion. The variant of the missile chosen for this contract was the AGM-84L Harpoon Block II. The RSAF also flaunted their ability to strike the targets at a considerable distance as Harpoon-armed F-15 fighter jets were seen flying continuously from Saudi Arabia to a location off the coast of Pakistan.Īlthough the video shows at least two targets being destroyed, there is a possibility that they were also struck by surface-launched missiles fired from warships of the Pakistan Navy or the Royal Saudi Navy, or even helicopters, during the same exercise.Īccording to reports, plans to integrate the Harpoon to F-15SA were announced in 2016 when Boeing started working on it under a Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) contract. In a video released on Youtube, the fighter jets are seen destroying warships and other vessels using its AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles.

This was the first time that these fighter jets, which are based at Dhahran on the Persian Gulf coast, were a part of the Naseem Al Bahr exercise series. The RSAF’s F-15SA fighter jets took part in a Pakistan-Saudi Arabian exercise, known as the Naseem Al Bahr XIII, which began on October 3. The aircraft boasts a digital electronic warfare suite, fly-by-wire flight control system, Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, an infrared search-and-track system, advanced cockpit displays, and Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems. Last December, the RSAF had received the final delivery of the Boeing-built F-15SA as part of a $29 billion foreign military sales (FMS) agreement for 84 jets, which was signed with the US in 2010. Other contenders include Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, MiG-35 and Su-35, Saab Gripen and Lockheed Martin’s F-21.īoeing has also offered its latest F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III to the Indian Navy, which is looking for a carrier-borne aircraft, and demonstrated the fighter jet’s ski-jump capability.

It can hit speeds as high as 2.5 Mach and has a range of 3,900 kilometers.īoeing has pitched the most advanced version of the F-15 series, the F-15EX, for the Indian Air Force’s MMRCA 2.0 (medium multi-role combat aircraft) tender. Once the aircraft was in service with the US Air Force, it was exported to Israel, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. The total wingspan of the warplane is approximately 13 meters. The aircraft has a shoulder-mounted swept wing designed primarily to achieve transonic maneuverability. It is a double-engine, two-seat, supersonic, long-range, air superiority aircraft powered by two Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-100 turbofan engines, which have a variable after-burning thrust. The Strike Eagle is an upgraded variant of the F-15 Eagle, which took its first flight in 1972 and was officially inducted in the year 1976. From Tanks To Aircraft, India Clears A Whopping $7.5B Worth Of Military Equipment Under ‘Make In India’ Initiativeĭeveloped by US aerospace giant Boeing, the F-15E Strike Eagle is an all-weather multi-role fighter jet, which was designed in the 1980s for conducting long-range strike missions and high-speed interdictions without the need of depending on escorts or electronic warfare aircraft.Three Times The Speed Of Sound, How India’s Trisonic Fighter Aircraft Left Pakistan’s F-16s, Chinese Defenses ‘High & Dry’.In an exercise held earlier this month, the RSAF demonstrated a lesser-known capability of its F-15SA jets. The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) operates the F-15SA, an advanced variant of the F-15E Strike Eagle.

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