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The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) Carrier Strike Group is busy with sustainment exercises to maintain readiness capabilities and the ability to deploy worldwide on short notice. A carrier strike group operates as a team and these types of exercises are critical in honing the skills of the group so they can carry out […]

The US Navy’s newest super carrier left port and headed out into the Atlantic Ocean for its first sea trials. The USS Gerald Ford is the first of the Ford Class carriers which will carry more aircraft and less personnel than Nimitz Class ships. More of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) passing Fort Monroe […]

Not our usual type of aviation story but this event is creating such an uproar around the world we wanted to get your opinions on it. Comment below and on the Fighter Sweep Facebook page. Watch Passenger Being Removed from the United Airlines Flight United Airlines needed to transfer four of their flight crew to […]

The US based company Honda Aircraft, a subsidiary of Japan’s Honda Motor Company recently displayed its HondaJet at the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai. Honda Aircraft, based in Greensboro, North Carolina has delivered 37 of their light business jet and plans to deliver 60 more in the next year. Fly the […]

Aviation is full of visuals and sometimes an image grabs your imagination. This is one such image. Looking at this photograph of a decommissioned Turkish Air Force F-4 Phantom makes you wonder about all the missions the aircraft may have flown. Who were the pilots that drove the Phantom and what experiences did they encountered […]

Sunday, passengers on board Air Force One were surprised to see a military cargo plane flying near them just before landing at Joint Base Andrews near Washington DC. The passengers noticed the aircraft around 6:23 pm as they were descending to the airfield. Those from the media who saw the other plane, including a television audio […]

Joint Base Langley–Eustis will host Exercise Atlantic Trident 17 April 12 through April 28, 2017. The event will be unique with F-22 Raptors and the F-35 Lightning II from the US flying with the UK Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon, and French Air Force Dassault Rafale. “This exercise was designed to encourage the sharing and development of […]

The USS Carl Vinson Strike Group has been ordered to cancel its planned port call in Australia and instead deploy to the western Pacific Ocean region. “US Pacific Command ordered the Carl Vinson strike group north as a prudent measure to maintain readiness and presence in the western Pacific,” said Commander Dave Benham, spokesman at […]

Back in the 1980’s Northrop privately funded the building of the F-20 Tigershark. A variant of the F-5 it was initially designated the F-5G. The Tigershark first flew in 1982 and only three aircraft were ever built. Watch the F-20 Tigershark in Action The F-20 had a single General Electric F404-GE-100 turbofan engine with 17,000 pounds of […]

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 just performed their first ‘hot reload’ of an F-35B Lightning II at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. This drill is to simulate and prepare for ‘real world’ scenarios. A ‘hot reload’ is when the aircraft’s ordinance is replenished with the pilot remaining in the aircraft and the engine […]

The US Navy has grounded its T-45 fleet of training aircraft for three days while it tries to determine the problems with the planes oxygen system. Fighter Sweep told you about how approximately 100 Navy flight instructors have gone ‘on strike’ refusing to fly the plane due to the potential of oxygen contamination which has […]

Boeing is touting that a future upgrade to the F-18 Super Hornet will make it able to track stealth aircraft by their heat source. According to Boeing’s manager of F/A-18 programs, Dan Gillian, this would be just one of many Super Hornet enhancements to keep the aircraft flying well into the 2040’s. Check Out the Super Hornet! […]