Doing the Heavy Lifting
Representatives of the United States Air Force reported on 04 January 2023 that a pair of F-15EX Eagle II fighters had successfully fired air-to-air missiles from newly installed and operational wing weapon stations during a 29 November 2022 test flight over the Gulf of Mexico. In a statement, the USAF described the test-flights as a “major step” toward demonstrating the radically augmented fourth-generation fighter’s planned capacity of 12 air-to-air missiles—the highest among U.S. fighter aircraft.