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“Can you fly this morning? We’ve had fallout,” my Director of Operations asked. I had been sitting in the base hotel room, getting ready to go to the gym since I wasn’t scheduled to fly my last flight in the F-16 for a couple of hours. I had moved from Homestead, FL to New Orleans […]
Victory by Valor. It’s the motto of Air Combat Command’s 20th Fighter Wing, located at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, and it’s especially fitting given the wing’s specialty – the Suppression and Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD/DEAD), also known as the “Wild Weasel” mission. With the Wild Weasel community celebrating its […]
Alright FighterSweep fans, we know that you absolutely love to watch airplane videos! So do we, as a matter of fact…a lot. That being the case, just for you, we have put together this little gem and we’re sure you’re going to love it. As a group, we have amassed quite a collection of footage […]
Against an enemy hell-bent on the destruction of the United States and her western allies, one might think the number of sorties flown by our guys and gals employing ordnance downrange would be a pretty impressive number. For example, the number of sorties flown in the forty-three days of Operation Desert Storm averaged over 1,100 […]
While it may look easy to the casual observer, air-to-air refueling is an endeavor that can be wrought with peril. Even so, it is a capability developed over decades that allows American airpower to be anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice. Whether or not you’re training at home or have just pulled off […]
All of us, at some point or other, have started a conversation with the question, “Wouldn’t it be cool if…-” Here at FighterSweep, we found ourselves in that exact scenario approximately four months ago. My most trusted colleagues and I were discussing possibilities for articles and projects, when Jonathan Derden asked, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool […]
“The weather is clear; you are executing a formation takeoff on Runway One-Seven-Right. At rotation, you hear a loud pop, bang, and buzz and the number two engine RPM rolls back. Lieutenant, you have the aircraft,” the instructor says as he stands behind the podium in the flight room reading the stand-up scenario of the […]
A recent article by the Washington Examiner begins to peel back the onion regarding the impact of decommissioning HSC-84 and 85. I would like to add some depth and put the argument in better context. The United States Special Operations Command’s rotary-wing deficit is one of the most important and consequential issues our Special Operation Forces face […]
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania–all former members of the Cold War-era Soviet Union–joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in March of 2004. In doing so, the task of maintaining air sovereignty in the skies over the Baltic Sea fell became NATO‘s full-time responsibility. That Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission consists of member nations providing aircraft and […]
As I previously mentioned in the Hornet vs Viper discussion, both of these legacy fighters are multirole. They’re designed to fight their way in to a target area using an array of air-to-air weapons, use their advanced targeting pods in conjunction with either “dumb” or “smart” bombs, and then fight their way back out. So […]
According to the Czech Republic’s Defense Minister, the crash of a Hungarian Air Force Saab JAS39D Gripen was not caused by a technical fault. Though no official cause has been named as the investigation has yet to be concluded, the Czech Air Force is no doubt breathing a giant sigh of relief right now. The […]
Strike Eagle. Mud Hen. Dark Gray. SLAM Eagle. The names vary, but the beauty and whoopass remain the same. The Boeing F-15E, originally designed by McDonnell Douglas, is an absolutely incredible blend of an airframe created to own the sky yet transformed into an in-your-face, low-level, death-dealing monster. Initially there was no interest in an F-15-derived […]
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