Boeing Needs New Names For Its Advanced Super Hornet And Eagle Fighters

[Ethan]

Citing how substantially different the newest F-15 Eagle and F/A-18 Super Hornet offerings are from their predecessors among other reasons, Boeing is looking for new names for both of its iconic fighter jet product lines.

The

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have had multiple names over the years, including Advanced Super Hornet, International Roadmap Super Hornet, F/A-18XT, and Block III Super Hornet. The newest iteration of the F-15 has also had a similar smattering of names, along with the unique designations given to the configuration each country buys,

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, Singapore's F-15SG and Korea's F-15K etc.

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: Internal 'F/A-18XT' designation is dead, since Navy calls it F/A-18 Block III. No decision on new name. Super-Duper Hornet?

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— James Drew (@JamesDrewNews)

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Boeing actively looking at a new name for latest Eagle as it has changed so much from 1970s F-15. "Different aircraft today". Parker

— Tim Robinson (@RAeSTimR)

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Maybe most famously was the still-born stealthy-ish F-15SE, otherwise known as the Silent Eagle. But it's with the Saudi purchase of the F-15SA that the

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, and Boeing is looking at spring boarding some of its advances into new upgrade configurations,

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—not the most sexy designation for a jet fighter—as well as

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based on the F-15SA design.




The USAF already calls its F-15C/Ds that are slated to receive a series of significant upgrades allowing

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"Golden Eagles." So that name is taken, that is unless the

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to nix the F-15C/D Eagle fleet and replace the jets with upgraded F-16s. As for the latest iteration of the Super Hornet, Wasp or Yellow Jacket seems almost too obvious.

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