The original McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle may rightfully be considered one of the most iconic and effective fighters of the 20th Century. Yet, the next-generation F-15 Short Take-Off and Landing Maneuver Technology Demonstrator, ahead of its time when first launched in the late 1980s, set the stage for a brand-new dawn in the next century. Soaring through the skies with extraordinary aerobatic finesse, this superpowered Eagle proudly showed off its pioneering design and next-level capabilities.

By incorporating advanced thrust vectoring controls and canards, this futuristic flying machine could pull off daring aerial maneuvers, take off with incredibly low rotation speeds, and land on remarkably short runways. This was a leap forward from its predecessors and contemporaries. Even NASA made sure it got hold of the aircraft to test their most innovative new technologies.

Thanks to the progress made by the revolutionary F-15 S-T-O-L M-T-D project, the world has borne witness to the development of a new generation of aircraft that have come to dominate the ever-changing face of modern warfare, such as the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, as well as the F-35 Lightning II.