Pentagon announces $8.6 billion Boeing contract for Israeli F-15 fighter jets |
Boeing was given an $8.6 billion contract for the F-15 Israel Program, the Pentagon said Monday, after US President Donald Trump met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida.
“This contract provides for the design, integration, instrumentation, test, production, and delivery of 25 new F-15IA aircraft for the Israeli Air Force with an option for an additional 25 F-15IA aircraft,” the Pentagon said.
The F-15IA is the Israeli variant of the advanced F-15EX fighter jet, the latest update of the decades-old F-15, Israel’s most relied-upon fighter aircraft, with heavy use in the campaigns against Iran, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past two years.
Last November, Israel signed a $5.2 billion deal for 25 F-15IA jets, which were slated to be supplied in batches of four to six per year, starting in 2031.
With Monday’s announced deal, another 25 jets will be made for Israel, bringing the total........