4 июня 1980г.: первый F-15J американской постройки для ВВС Японии поднялся в воздух в Сент-Луисе, Миссури. Самолет был передан Японии 15 июля.
As well as its production for the USAF, the F-15 is being or has been produced by McDonnell Douglas for export to three other countries - Japan, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Two-seat F-15DJs are assembled in Japan from kits supplied by the parent company hut the single-seat F-15J is built by Mitsubishi almost wholly from original parts.

Tangential carriage of bombs on the conformal fuel tanks of the F-15, now adopted as a standard arrangement, is shown here on the F-15C used for trials that demonstrated the substantial performance gains obtained through reduced drag.

One of the 62 Eagles supplied to date to the Royal Saudi Air Force.

One of the F-15's new capabilities, introduced on production aircraft through the current MSIP-II programme, will be to carry the Boeing/Vought anti-satellite (ASAT) missile, seen here on the centreline of a trials aircraft.

One of four F-15s used during 1983 in a series of demonstration and evaluation flights in connection with the USAF's Dual Role Fighter programme was the original two-seat F-15B Strike Eagle, now in standard USAF grey finish. It is seen here carrying four AIM-9L Sidewinder AAMs, 12 500-lb (227-kg) Mk 82 bombs and a FLIR pod on the fuselage centreline.

One of four F-15s used during 1983 in a series of demonstration and evaluation flights in connection with the USAF's Dual Role Fighter programme was the original two-seat F-15B Strike Eagle, now in standard USAF grey finish. It is seen here carrying four AIM-9L Sidewinder AAMs, 12 500-lb (227-kg) Mk 82 bombs and a FLIR pod on the fuselage centreline.

An impression of an F-15B as it would be modified to meet the requirements of the USAF's STOL and Manoeuver Technology Demonstration programme, with canard foreplanes and rectangular thrust vectoring and reversing nozzles.