Holding on the taxiway as the Boeing pilot looks at the flying display overhead. The aircraft is in clean configuration for its display at Spirit of St. Louis Air Show 2024. Intended for the Qatar Emiri Air Force, the Ababil is one of 34 on order. The advanced F-15 variant features the more powerful F110-GE-129 engines, fly-by-wire with a quadruple-redundant control system, AN/APG-82(V)1 AESA radar, AN/AAS-42 TigerEye IRST, AN/ALQ-239 DEWS, 10x19 LADs in the cockpit and additional weapons pylons capable of carrying twelve AIM-20 AMRAAMs.