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FighterSweep Fans, how many of you have or are currently flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet–or aspire to become Super Hornet Drivers? Any Hands? Okay. Next question: how many of you are familiar with “Bitchin Betty?” For the uninitiated among you, “Bitchin’ Betty” is the voice in a fighter cockpit the pilots hear when there is […]
Editor’s Note: Some would say the “State of the Air Force” depends largely on who you talk to. Some say morale is at an all-time low. Others say the Air Force is at its smallest (and weakest?) since World War II. General Welsh recently said morale is pretty darn good. The rate of sorties against […]
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Air Force recently held its annual certification conference for its Heritage Flight airshow display team, a conference held at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside of Tucson, Arizona. All of Air Combat Command’s tactical demonstration teams–the F-22 Raptor, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and now the F-35 Lightning II–were on hand to fly with […]
Editor’s Note: This certainly ends a lot of the speculation as to which companies are on the LRS-B Team. There were a lot of theories circling the E-waves, and thanks to Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, we now have an idea of who the major players will be for the B-21. While […]
Editor’s Note: FighterSweep Fans, I’m not quite sure what to say about this one. “I am lacking in diversity of gender, ethnicity, and [aircraft type] background.” That is a line out of an email written by the Wing Commander of the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Brigadier General Christopher Short, the man presiding […]
Editor’s Note: Our friends in the “Fiends” have a very challenging pace they’re keeping up. Between escorting B-52s during shows of force along the DMZ, joint exercises with RoKAF SLAM Eagles at home, flying with F-22s in another show of force, a TDY for another exercise in Southeast Asia, they’ve been really busy. In order […]
Editor’s Note: We mentioned the looming deadline before, and all eyes on on the Pegasus aerial refueling tanker as it presses on through its test phase. Once Milestone C is reached, leadership at AMC (Air Mobility Command) will decide on an acceptable date to shoot for to reach Initial Operational Capability. All hopes are geared […]
Editor’s Note: Britain and France are looking to the future of air combat for the respective nations and have announced the full-scale development of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) an unmanned effort which could replace current generation aircraft in both countries. The goal for project fruition is in the 2030s, around the same time […]
Editor’s Note: As requirements for Next Generation Air Dominance, referred to by some as 6th-Gen or even 7th-Gen, start to emerge, it makes sense as the aircraft’s design and capabilities change and adapt to the battlespace of tomorrow, air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry would need to get aboard the train, too. During the Air Warfare Symposium […]
Editor’s Note: Northrop-Grumman’s original Stealth Bomber and the Air Force’s Long Range Strike-Bomber bare such a striking resemblance, to one another, it’s reasonable to wonder what else the two aircraft have in common. There’s a lot of speculation as to whom the subcontractors are or will be, how the design compares in its LO characteristics […]
Editor’s Note: It was only a matter of time before we started hearing about other countries pursuing 6th-Generation fighters of their own. Yesterday, Sukhoi got in on the act, presenting design concepts and publicly joining the race. The timing is interesting, considering the T-50/PAK-FA has not yet reached operational status with the Russia’s Air Force. […]
Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Fans! We know you’ve brought you a few B-Course videos, and though this one is in a similar vein, it’s more of a compilation of the different phases a student F-16 pilot goes through in order to reach their initial qualification in the jet. You’ll see BFM, SAT (surface attack training), CAS, […]
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