F-15F Dire Eagle

The F-15F Dire Eagle is the common "new" strike fighter aircraft of the American Coalition. Based off of the F-15SE Silent Eagle demonstrator developed in 2010 and incorporating design features of the F-15 ACTIVE Eagle from the 1990s, the Dire Eagle is a high performance revitalization of an airframe originally designed in the 70s.
The AmC lacked the means to produce replacement F-16s for several years due to the production plant being located in Florida, which up until recently was territory still held by the remnants of the United States of America and isolated by the Republic of Texas and Gulf States Alliance and Appalachia Reclamation Project. The F-15 production plant in Missouri, however, has been under AmC control since the nation's creation. As a result, in order to fulfill a perceived gap in the Coalition's air defenses, the F-15, which had previously benefited from continuous improvement over the decades due to consistent foreign export sales in the Advanced Eagle program, was completely modernized into the F-15F Dire Eagle.
The F-15F is a two-seater, twin engine "4.5 Generation" strike fighter designed for air-to-air combat. Its twin vector nozzle engines grant it a maximum speed in excess of Mach 2 and a payload of 20,000 lbs, with six pylons for various weaponry and one 20mm gatling cannon with 500 rounds of ammunition. Although designed for air-to-air combat, it is easily capable of fulfilling a ground-attack role as well. 
The F-15F is notable for being the first American fighter to use directed-energy weaponry in the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL). The combination of the F-15F's high degree of maneuverability and the ATL's near-instant time to target capability close any gap in effectiveness against more technologically advanced adversaries.
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