Since September, Boeing engineers have been busy at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, swapping the old APG-70 radars on the F-15Es there and replacing them with the state-of-the-art APG-82 AESA radar.
The program, dubbed RMP Eagle modernization program, is no easy feat. Each aircraft takes 70 to 75 work days for the radar swap.
They had to jack up the aircraft, remove the nose landing gear in order to access the avionics bays at the nose. Brackets had to be removed and new ones installed. Holes were cut for new cables to snake through as well.