{"id":164353,"date":"2025-01-06T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-us-air-force-bases-replaced-f-15s-with-f-22s-f-35s\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T23:30:15","slug":"5-us-air-force-bases-that-replaced-f-15s-with-f-22s-or-f-35s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=164353","title":{"rendered":"5 US Air Force Bases That Replaced F-15s With F-22s Or F-35s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upgraded F-15EX Strike Eagle II arguably remains one of the world&#8217;s fighter jets in the air-to-air role (after the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"87592\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>F-22 Raptor<\/span><\/span> and even the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span>&#8211;         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038052\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/advanced-5th-generation-fighters-close-quarters-dogfights-more-likely\/\" >which score a 20:1 victory rate during exercises<\/a><\/span>). However, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> is divesting many of its older             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60440\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-15\/\"  >F-15C\/Ds<\/a><\/span>; some were partially replaced with the limited-production F-22 while others are being replaced by F-35As and new F-15EX aircraft. Around 145 aging F-15C Eagles remain in service (along with around 218 F-15Es and a few F-15EXs).         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028471\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/which-f-15s-government-clear-us-air-force-to-retire\/\" >The remaining F-15Cs are expected to retire in the coming years<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous bases have now replaced aging F-15Cs with F-22s and F-35s, though some bases will host F-15EXs for decades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2125,7786,748,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-15","category-f-22-raptor","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164354,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353\/revisions\/164354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}