F-15A Eagle Kit Card

The F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine air superiority fighter developed by McDonnell Douglas. It first entered service January 1976, and is still currently in service in United States, Japan, Israel, and Suadi Arabia. It was made to replace the F-4 Phantom, but rather than being a multirole fighter like the F-4, the USAF choose an aircraft focused on air superiority. The F-15 has seen extensive use in The Gulf War, Yemen Civil War, And many other conflicts in the Middle East. Through these conflicts the F-15 has shown its capabilities has a dominant fighter.In 1978 the USAF started a program focused on achieving an Anti-Satellite weapon that can be launched from an aircraft. The F-15A was chosen as a launch platform for its high-performance capabilities. The ASM-135 ASAT was an 18-foot (5.4 Meters) long three-stage missile, with two booster stages and a Miniature Homing Vehicle (MHV) stage. This missile would be launched form the F-15 at 38,000 feet (11,582 Meters) during a supersonic climb.