Hobby Master Boeing F-15EX/IA Eagle II Multi-Role Fighters

Dubbed the F-15EX, the new variant of the venerable jet offers more modern flight controls, cockpit displays, and radar. It would also pack more firepower, including two dozen air-to-air missiles.

As far as the F-15EX's specifications, sources describe the aircraft as a single seat variant of the latest F-15 advanced Strike Eagle derivative - the F-15QA destined for Qatar - but it will also integrate many of the features and upgrades that the USAF intends (or intended as it may be) to include on its nearly four-decade-old F-15C/D fleet.

It includes a flat-panel glass cockpit, JHMCS II helmet mounted display (HMD), revised internal wing structure, fly-by-wire controls, [and] APG-82 AESA radar, as well as the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) electronic warfare and electronic surveillance suite, among other features.

The plane will pack a ton of firepower. Among its configurations will be twenty-two air-to-air missiles, eight air-to-air missiles and twenty-eight Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs), or seven larger two-thousand-pound bombs with the same eight air-to-air missiles. That compares to just eight air-to-air missiles for the F-15C/D Eagle.