F-15F Strike Eagle 'Wild Weasel'

+dtmdragon · May 10, 2016

In 1994, the USAF awarded a contract to McDonnell Douglas to explore the feasibility of adapting the F-15C to the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) role--the so-called Wild Weasel mission that was at the time performed by the two-seat F-4G Phantom II.

However, the Air Force was skeptical about the feasiblity of a modified F-15C for the Wild Weasel mission, preferring a two-seat aircraft for this role. The aircraft that the USAF would REALLY like to have for the Wild Weasel role is a modified two-seat F-15E, but this is considered much too expensive an option in the current military drawdown environment.

The USAF settled instead on an adaptation of the F-16 for the Wild Weasel mission the F-16CJ Block 50/52 with the HARM targeting Pod.

BUT...... What if a modified F-15E had been chosen as the F-4G replacement?

And so I give you the F-15F Strike Eagle 'Wild Weasel'

The F-15F is dedicated to the SEAD role and like the F-4G before it works in hunter/ killer teams with the F-16CJ Block 50/52. For this role the F-15F is fitted with the Litton/ TRW AN/APR-52 Precision Direction Finding (PDF) system. As an economy measure and since it was thought the SEAD role could be undertaken solely with the PDF system the F-15F could not utilize the LANTIRN system until an avionics upgrade program in the early 2000's which included the Sniper targeting pod and JHMCS.

I have done two camouflage skins for each squadron, one is in the normal F-15E dark grey and the other is in the hill grey scheme. Squadrons are the 14th, 23rd and 90th Fighter Squadrons.