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U.S. Air Force Not Ready To Retire Boeing F-15C Eagle

The U.S. Air Force has "no plans right now" to retire the Boeing F-15C Eagle, according to the service's undersecretary.

Earlier this year, service officials raised the prospect of junking the long-serving air superiority fighter in favor of Lockheed MartinF-16s upgraded with active electronically scanned array radars.

The service has been considering the cost-cutting measure while preparing its budget submission for fiscal 2019. However, it seems the service needs all the combat aircraft it can get right now, given the challenging global security environment, so the 38-year-old Eagle will fly on, at least for a while.