Why The F-15 Terrified The Soviets

My Eagle vs. Foxbat video is now up on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/mustard-eagle-vs-foxbat-samurra-a… Super excited to post this one, as it's a new kind of Mustard video!

It's kind of poetic; the Soviets oversold a jet's capabilities and knew it could never do all the things they claimed. The American D.o.D. took their adversary at face value and so built a jet that could equal or excel their Soviet counterpart. This results in a jet that actually dominates their direct competition. It was a solution to a problem that never actually existed.

the f-15 landed with only one wing, shot a satellite, hit a fucking helicopter with a guided bomb, and has a god damn 104:0 kill ratio. Damn what an aircraft

I once heard. The F-15 doesn’t produce lift. It beats the atmosphere into submission

When bluffing you enemy goes wrong... Because your enemy then builds something to counter your bluff.

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I am a former F 15 aircraft mechanic while I was in active duty Air Force, then I transitioned over to the KC 135 in the reserve. Thank you my friend. Thank you so much.

As a current F15 Crew Chief, i can say this has been my favorite fighter since i was 10 years old when it first came out. It's just a badass looking, flying and fighting aircraft.

Uncle Sam really backed himself into a corner with an imaginary super plane and still won

This channel is the definition of a great channel on YouTube. No bullshit, just raw facts, amazing animations, historical content and easy to understand. No click bait just quality content from a passionate group of people. Love you guys at Mustard ❤

I’m a 15 Crew Chief, there’s so many stories to tell. One of my personal favorites is quickly scrolled by at 11:30. A single E Model with an air to air kill. The jet was doing an intercept to assist some Green Berets, and there were some helicopters dropping troops off to attack the paratroopers. The pilot released his 2000 pound bomb trying to hit the helicopter as it dropped off troops, but as he released the bomb, the helicopter took off. The back seater didn’t break the laser targeting, and the rest was history. Helicopter evaporated, only Air to Air kill with a bomb. The jet was Named “Lucky” and it still has its star under it’s canopy sill. It’s reaching the end of it’s lifetime, and a museum has already paid and reserved it.

7:14 love the orange paint scheme on that F-15, reminds me of a certain game

Something about the f15’s airframe from top down view (6:14) just screams “air superiority fighter”—like the perfect balance between a high speed interceptor and an agile dogfighter. It’s so iconic.

Foxbat was designed with the sole purpose of shooting down the SR-71. Viktor Belenko defected and flew his Foxbat to Japan. He eventually made his way to the US and became a citizen. One of the first things he requested was to see an SR-71 up close because he never got to see one before.

As an aside, Viktor Belenko, the Soviet defector who handed over the Foxbat, just recently died, an American citizen with few regrets. Also, the US returned said Foxbat to the Soviet Union - in pieces, having completely autopsied the thing first.

A quick glance at its air-to-air kill ratio (100+ to 0) is a good testament of the Eagle's quality. Perceived necessity married to ingenuity is the mother of invention.

It’s nuts that the US actually fielded TWO air superiority fighters in the F-15 Eagle and F-14 Tomcat at the same time.

I flew the -E for 18 of my 32 years in the USAF. Wonderful machine to this day and I'm so happy that her bloodline is still going strong!

I knew the Streak Eagle had several time-to-climb and altitude records. I didn't realize it was launched fairly locally to me (grew up in Minot, now live in Fargo). I do miss seeing the F-15s and F-16s flying overhead.

I've re-watched this video several times because of how well the story is told, and the visually stunning graphics. well done!