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Boeing Points to Drone Employment Possibilities for F-15EX

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, June 21st, 2022

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Boeing Points to Drone Employment Possibilities for F-15EX

The Air Force showed its F-15EX Eagle II, fighter during a ceremony on April last year Eglin AFB, Fla. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

ST. LOUIS--Boeing [BA] believes its F-15EX could carry and employ drones from conformal tech bays that would take the place of conformal fuel tanks on the plane. The aircraft's open architecture and cabling may facilitate manned-unmanned teaming. "We created some new space--the new digital design, the nose barrel and the forward fuselage also added some capacity from a physical space perspective," said Matt "Phat" Giese, Boeing's chief F-15EX test pilot. "With this new EX open architecture/open mission system design, that…

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