FighterSweep Staff

BALTOPS. Anakonda. Saber Strike. Swift Response. Thousands of U.S. and allied service members are participating in exercises across Europe, from Poland to the Baltics, to improve interoperability and prepare for real-world conflicts. They come at a time when Russia is reportedly building new bases on the borders of Ukraine. A 10-member U.S. Air Force detachment in Poland, which […]

Two South Carolina Air National Guard F-16 fighter pilots ejected safely after an apparent midair collision in eastern Georgia, the Guard said. The collision happened about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday during night training operations over a remote military operating area in Jefferson County, Georgia, a National Guard spokeswoman said. The jets were assigned to the South […]

Russia’s new stealth fighter made an eyebrow-raising surprise appearance on June 5—soaring over the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow ripped from Ukraine in early 2014. The T-50—Russia’s answer to the U.S. Air Force’s F-22—is far from war-ready. Indeed, the twin-engine, radar-evading warplane is suffering such serious design, quality-control, and financing problems that it might never enter […]

The Federal Aviation Administration is warning pilots that GPS testing could leave the global-positioning signals “unreliable or unavailable” across much of the West for six days in June. The testing that began Tuesday based in Southern California could hurt flight controls for a specific kind of business jet, the FAA warned. But the testing shouldn’t affect commercial airliners, according to experts. “I think […]

BBC brings you footage of the pilots that are fighting to rid Fallujah of ISIS. The reporter stated that the pilots claims that it is very difficult to tell who is the enemy and who isn’t from the air. Fallujah has been a major strong hold of ISIS in Iraq and the lose of this […]

Watch as F/A-18 Super Hornet jets and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) on June 4, 2016, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. US Navy

When the Air Force and Boeing launched the KC-46 Pegasus program, the 412th Test Wing was tagged as one of the prime players in testing and validation of the aircraft. Named the Air Force’s Responsible Test Organization, the 412th TW had to supply aircraft and a support crew for testing at Boeing Field International Airport […]

In a recent test the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), developed by Lockheed Martin, has demonstrated firing from unmanned platforms. In a recent test the missile was fired from a US Army Gray Eagle (MQ-1C) Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) targeting a truck target moving at a speed of 20 mph. The missile was fired from typical UAS […]

“The Air Force’s projected force structure in 2030 is not capable of fighting and winning against [an] array of potential adversary capabilities,” according to the newly released unclassified version of the Air Force’s Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan. The document, developed during a yearlong study “by an enterprise capability collaboration team [ECCT] composed of Air Force operators, acquirers […]

A lack of flight test data was a contributing factor in an April 2015 accident that led to an AC-130J nosediving 5,000 feet in an inverted position before the pilots could recover, according to an Air Force Accident Investigation Board. The flight datacould have helped the pilots better understand the limits of the aircraft’s handling while […]

Engine failure, fuel malfunction. Maybe even a bird strike. The official finding of what caused an F-16 to crash after performing for the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony Thursday has not been released, but experts and pilots are giving major props to the pilot of the No. 6 jet, Maj. Alex Turner, for a safe and impressive […]

Army Apaches are using a new technology in Afghanistan which enables the attack helicopter crews to view real-time video feeds from nearby drones, control the drones’ flight path and therefore more effectively destroy enemy targets, service officials told Scout Warrior. Manned-Unmanned Teaming, or MUM-T, gives AH-64E Apache attack helicopters an ability to control the flight path and sensor payload of Army […]