Jelaskan Operation Odyssey Dawn dari McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle

Following the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 on 17 March 2011, 18 USAF F-15Es were amongst other NATO and allied aircraft were deployed to enforce the Libyan no-fly zone as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn. On 21 March 2011, an F-15E from the 492d FS crashed near Bengazi, Libya.</ref> Crilly, Rob. "Libya: US fighter jet crash lands in field near Benghazi." The Telegraph, 22 March 2011.</ref> Both crew members parachuted into territory held by resistance elements of the Libyan population and were eventually rescued by US Marines.</ref>"U.S. F-15 fighter crashes in Libya." CNN, 22 March 2011. Retrieved: 27 February 2011.</ref></ref> Meyer, Sebastian. "Libyan residents discover wreckage of US plane." The Daily Telegraph, 22 March 2011.</ref> Equipment problems caused a weight imbalance and contributed to the crash when leaving the target area.</ref>"United States Air Force Aircraft Accident Investigation Board Report – F-15E Strike Eagle, T/N 91-000304."  USAF, 26 October 2011.</ref>

Operations against Islamic State (2014–present)

F-15E USAF telah berpartisipasi dalam Operation Inherent Resolve melawan militan Negara Islam (IS) di Irak dan Suriah. Pada pagi hari tanggal 23 September 2014, banyak pesawat Amerika dan Arab melakukan serangan udara di Suriah terhadap pejuang IS, kompleks pelatihan, markas besar dan fasilitas komando dan kontrol, fasilitas penyimpanan, pusat keuangan, truk pasokan, dan kendaraan bersenjata.</ref>Air Force fighters, bombers conduct strikes against ISIL targets in Syria – AF.mil, 23 September 2014</ref> Pentagon merilis video target yang terkena persenjataan yang dikerahkan oleh F-15E, yang diambil oleh pod penargetan AN/AAQ-33 Sniper mereka sendiri.</ref>F-15E Strike Eagle Decimates ISIL Compound in Syria – Freebeacon.com, 28 September 2014</ref></ref>Watch an ISIS compound be wiped out through an F-15E Strike Eagle's SNIPER advanced targeting pod – Theaviationist.com, 30 September 2014</ref> Antara Agustus 2014 dan Januari 2015, F-15E menerbangkan 37 persen dari semua sorti USAF.</ref>A-10 Performing 11 Percent of Anti-ISIS Sorties – Defensenews.com, 19 January 2015</ref>

USAF F-15Es based at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom performed several long range surgical strikes against IS camps and prominent figures in Libya. On 13 November 2015, a pair of F-15Es killed Abu Nabil al-Anbari, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya, in a strike near Darnah, Eastern Libya.</ref></ref> On 20 February 2016, USAF F-15Es</ref></ref> hit an IS training camp near Sabratha where foreign fighters were based, reportedly killing Noureddine Chouchane, a 36-year-old Tunisian jihadist linked to the 2015 Sousse attacks. Sources said that 49 people were killed and 6 wounded;</ref></ref></ref></ref> two Serbians kidnapped by IS in 2015 were also reportedly killed.</ref></ref>

On 8 June 2017, an F-15E shot down a pro-Syrian Regime UAV near Al Tanf, Syria;</ref></ref> according to OIR officials, it was downed after deploying "one of several weapons it was carrying near a position occupied by Coalition personnel... [It was] similar in size to a U.S. MQ-1 Predator".</ref></ref> The drone may have been a Shahed 129;</ref></ref> on 20 June 2017, a second Shahed-129 was downed by an F-15E near the 50 mile exclusion zone around Al-Tanf.</ref></ref>

On 21 August 2021, a USAF F-15E shot down an unidentified drone with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile as the drone approached US forces in Eastern Syria.</ref></ref>