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US Air Force loads up F-15E fighter jet with a lot of cruise missiles to see if it could be used like a bomber rpickrell@businessinsider.com (Ryan Pickrell) © USAF An F-15E Strike Eagle in the Project Strike Rodeo loadout. USAF
The Air Force loaded an F-15E fighter jet with twice as many cruise missiles as it normally carries.
The load test was part of a proof-of-concept known as Project Strike Rodeo.
The idea is that fighters able to self-escort could be used to conduct bomber missions.
The US Air Force is looking at the possibility of using fighter jets armed with both air-to-air missiles and a heavy loadout of stand-off cruise missiles as bomber aircraft able to self-escort in contested airspace and conduct devastating missile strikes.
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The Air Force loaded an F-15E fighter jet with twice as many cruise missiles as it normally carries.
The load test was part of a proof-of-concept known as Project Strike Rodeo.
The idea is that fighters able to self-escort could be used to conduct heavy bomber missions.
The US Air Force is looking at the possibility of using fighter jets armed with both air-to-air missiles and a heavy loadout of stand-off cruise missiles as heavy bomber aircraft able to self-escort in contested airspace and conduct devastating missile strikes.
This week, the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base armed an F-15E Strike Eagle with five AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSMs), more than twice what the plane would normally carry.
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