Combat record
F-15 Eagle — Combat Record
4th-generation jet · United States · First flight 1972 · Combat-proven: air-to-air
The story behind the numbers
No fighter in history has a record like the Eagle’s: 104 credited air-to-air victories — and not one F-15 ever lost in air-to-air combat, in fifty years and five air forces. Israeli Eagles opened the account over Lebanon, culminating in the 1982 Bekaa Valley battles where Syrian MiGs fell by the dozen; Saudi and US Eagles added Iranian, Iraqi and Serbian kills.
The 1990s USAF liked to say the F-15’s real weapon was the whole system around it — AWACS, training, Sparrow and AMRAAM — and the Bekaa proved the point at scale: technology plus doctrine equals a shutout. The undefeated champion of air combat, and the standard every 4th-generation fighter chased.
Campaign by campaign
| Years | Campaign | Operator | Victories | A2A losses | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979–82 | Israeli ops (Bekaa Valley) | Israel | 56 | 0 | Over half of all F-15 kills — mostly Syrian MiGs; peak during Operation Mole Cricket 19 (1982). |
| 1991 | Gulf War | USAF | 34 | 0 | The bulk of coalition air-to-air victories in Desert Storm. |
| 1984–99 | Other USAF / Saudi | USA / Saudi | 14 | 0 | Includes Saudi F-15s downing 2 Iranian F-4Es (1984) and Balkans/no-fly-zone kills. |
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