Trivia
As far as I remember, the CD-ROM edition of this game had an intro cinematic as a special bonus - nothing more. This added a whopping 50 MB to the floppy disk version, which had maybe 12 MB.
Because of this "bonus", the CD version was worse than the floppy release: when you started the game, then a) the CD had to be in the drive and b) the intro would be played. The intro was split into several files. And why? Well, they copied the first intro file to your hard drive, played it back, deleted it, copied the next file, played it back... Not only this behaviour was totally stupid, the intro looked like crap because of the pause (yes, 1x-2x CD-ROM ruled back then) between the animation snippets :)
Contributed by
phlux 
(4157) on Dec 06, 2001.
There's a "Squadron Leader's Edition" that contains a F-15 book, F-15 Squadron Patch, and some limited edition F-15 photos in addition to the regular stuff in the box.
When Andy Hollis "defected" from MicroProse during the "first decline of MicroProse", he joined Jane's Combat Simulations and started work on Jane's F-15, which is spiritually F-15 Strike Eagle IV.
There are carrier task groups and other task groups in each of the campaign maps. The Iowa battle group is near Kuwait on the Desert Storm map, as are two other carrier groups. It's a lot of fun looking for them if you have the fuel.
A later "patch" added the Iraq '92 campaign, postulating that the Coalition forces, fed up with Iraqi intransigence regarding the UN arms inspections and repeated violations of the no-fly zones, chose to resume limited bombing of specific targets, and the Strike Eagles are called back to duty...
If you "slew" over to Tokyo, you'll see Godzilla...
