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2025-12-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Pentagon announces $8.6 billion Boeing contract for Israeli F-15s

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-30 2025-12-30 03:17|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1877 views ] Top

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Hopefuly better engines.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-12-30 05:42|| 2025-12-30 05:42|| Front Page Top

2 Corporate welfare? Prudent investment in keeping a proven aircraft's assembly line open? Some of each? Oh, and a little diplomacy I suppose...

Posted by magpie 2025-12-30 08:44|| 2025-12-30 08:44|| Front Page Top

3 Both of the above are good fits.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-12-30 09:08|| 2025-12-30 09:08|| Front Page Top

4 "Taking food from the mouths of hard working Somali Americans to kill Palestinians!"/Tucker mode off.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-12-30 09:35|| 2025-12-30 09:35|| Front Page Top

5 Oh, and a little $$ diplomacy I suppose...

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-30 10:23|| 2025-12-30 10:23|| Front Page Top

6 That’s on ly $344million each, including all the upgrades the Israelis have been devising.

It sounds like they anticipate future targets won’t have sophisticated defenses against future bombing runs… or at least that they won’t after Israel’s F-35s do a first pass.

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-30 13:00|| 2025-12-30 13:00|| Front Page Top

7 ...Boeing owns the F-15, as it's the result of a merger between Boeing and the old McDonnell-Douglas. They own the old McAir facilities in St. Louis.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-12-30 13:02|| 2025-12-30 13:02|| Front Page Top

8 TW the Israelis are seeming to adopt the US doctrine when it comes to 4th and 5th generation fighters. The F-35s come in and degrade the air defense (SEAD missions) and the F-15s stay farther back as missile trucks and level the site after.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-12-30 13:09|| 2025-12-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

9 Thank you for explaining, DarthVader. As you know, they don’t come any more civilian than me, so it really helps me keep up — my learning for today! :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-30 21:26|| 2025-12-30 21:26|| Front Page Top

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