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Editor’s Note: Our friends in the F-35 community have been busy of late and the jet continues its march toward Initial Operational Capability, or IOC– fragged to happen later this year. The 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron, as well as the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron, have deployed pilots and a total of six aircraft to Mountain Home Air […]
Editor’s Note: Competition for the USAF’s T-38 jet trainer replacement, known simply as the T-X at this point, has a field of very capable vendors and partnerships. The latest to join is an partnership comprised of Raytheon, Finmeccanica, and CAE, and the team will offer the T-100 for review. Raytheon on Monday officially announced it is […]
Editor’s Note: The world’s most experienced Apache helicopter pilot has officially concluded his military flying career, but not before achieving an amazing milestone: 10,000 flight hours in the Boeing AH-64 Apache. Of those hours, over 2,200 were in combat operations overseas. Chief Jones’ callsign is “Jedi,” but we honestly wonder if “Yoda” wouldn’t be more […]
Editor’s Note: All eyes are on Boeing as it is successfully meeting test objectives with the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker, but the window of time the defense industry giant has to deliver the first eighteen aircraft to the U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command is very narrow, and leaves little to no room for […]
Editor’s Note: We’ve been talking a lot about these topics in recent days, all in an effort to educate you (and ourselves!) about how the landscape of tomorrow’s potential battlefield. The Chinese are certainly increasing their surface warfare and aerial warfare capabilities by leaps and bounds, to include the presence of new radars, 5th-generation aircraft, […]
Editor’s Note: As we’ve mentioned before, everyone in the industry is anxious to hear more details about the LRS-B and what it brings to the fight that our current strategic bombers simply cannot. While we at FighterSweep are just as curious as anyone else (and speculate amongst ourselves), it’s important to remember secrecy is incredibly […]
One of our resident Viper Drivers, Pilot X, previously wrote, “there arguably is no better weapon than the F-16C Fighting Falcon…-” when it comes to a BFM engagement. I’m happy that he included the word “arguably” in that statement, because it is my intention to make a different argument. The F-16C is superb in the dogfighting arena. […]
Editor’s Note: Commercial satellite imagery, thanks to the awesome folks over at DigitalGlobe, reveals Belarus has at least partially converted their S-200 SAM site at Polatsk to support the highly capable S-300 system. The S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble; SA-12 Giant/Gladiator; and SA-20 Gargoyle) is a whole family of Russian modern long range surface-to-air missile systems. As […]
Editor’s Note: This story coming out of India is one of many like it plaguing Antonov. As we have previously reported, the embattled company has recently been liquidated (or has it?) been the government of Ukraine. More than one hundred airplanes in need of upgrade is no laughing matter, and if the OEM upgrade doesn’t […]
Editor’s Note: I’ve known Khan for a few years and it’s really awesome to see the milestones he’s reached in his career thus far. 3,000 hours in the Eaglejet? That’s a pretty impressive number; less than 100 people have reached that mark in the forty-plus years the F-15 has been flying. Congratulations, brother! Very well done. […]
Editor’s Note: It’s difficult to imagine how today’s U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Strike Group could be rendered both impotent and vulnerable, considering how it’s been an amazing instrument of deterrence and power projection for the past several decades. While the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier off the coast of most potential threat nations–or within […]
On the 21st February 2016, the world lost a legendary aviator. At 97 years old, Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RN was the most decorated pilot in the history of the British Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm and held three Guinness World Records. These included the most aircraft flown by a single person, totaling 487 and […]
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