Here’s What Makes The F-15E Strike Eagle America’s Fastest Jet Fighter

Here’s What Makes The F-15E Strike Eagle America’s Fastest Jet Fighter Ever since the advent of the jet engine in the 1940s, the idea of making aircraft go as fast as possible has excited aircraft designers all over the world. Of course, we know two of the fastest aircraft ever made are the hypersonic X-15 and the SR-71 Blackbird. But when it comes to military jet fighters, it’s difficult to reach speeds of Mach 3 , simply as more than just speed comes into the equation when it comes to developing such an aircraft. It has to work in its i-ntended role. Over the years, the United States has developed many great fighter jets. There is the F-104 Starfighter, dubbed “the missile with a man in it”. Then we have the more recent F/A-18 Hornet, and of course the latest and greatest in the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II. But what is the fastest US fighter jet? Well, it is none of these aircraft. The fastest fighter ever seen in US military service is the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle. Derived from the original F-15 Eagle, the Strike Eagle first flew in December 1986, and to this day remains a potent multirole strike fighter and interceptor.