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Welcome back, FighterSweep fans! For this week’s edition of Milestone Monday, we’re going to take a look at yet another controversial aircraft – imagine that! – but this time one operated by several of our NATO partners and closest allies. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a modern, delta-winged, multirole strike fighter that made its first flight on […]
“There are threats out there that would be difficult to defeat and defend against with our current sensor suite.”
Yesterday, the DC Air National Guard’s 113th Wing reached a huge milestone for its Aerospace Control Alert (ACA) Detachment. When the klaxon sounded, it was alert event number 5,000. Even though the alarm resolved itself before takeoff and the Vipers never left the ground, it still went down in the books, a historic first in […]
For the purposes of full disclosure, I have a duty to inform you all that I am a U.S. Navy (Reserve) F/A-18 Hornet pilot. And while some may remark of a bias because of that, please follow along and draw your own conclusions. When I read the remarks of the current Chief of Naval Operations, […]
We have all seen the Pentagon briefings and clips on the news featuring vehicles with armed ne’er-do-wells inside fleeing an area at a high rate of speed, only to be interrupted–permanently–by the sudden arrival of a precision-guided munition. Especially noteworthy are aerial attacks on structures, even specific parts of structures, targeted in such a fashion […]
It’s that time again, everybody. Our weekly holiday trip to burnerville! Stupid? Yes. Accurate? Absolutely. For Burner Friday this week, we bring you some lovely plumage courtesy of our Viper-flying allies, the Polish Air Force. These are not your grandpa’s F-16s. They are powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 which produces a chest-thumping 29,000 […]
There is a long string of barrier islands extending north to south (ish) approximately two hundred miles from the southeastern corner of Virginia and it covers most of the coastline of neighboring North Carolina. Known as the Outer Banks, they are the narrow islands separating the Atlantic Ocean from Currituck Sound, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico […]
Here at FighterSweep, there is no denying we have some absolutely incredible opportunities. I’m not just talking about flying in fighters, producing world-class aviation imagery and video, or the knowledge, experience, and expertise of our contributors. Arguably, what delights us more than anything else is the chance to meet and spend time with fantastic people […]
If you spend any time at all with fighter pilots in the club or base or the squadron bar, there will be moments when your ears will be both assaulted and delighted by something reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 poem, The Raven: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of […]
Inserting SOF at night into an urban terrain LZ is one of the most exhilarating and dangerous things anyone can do in a helicopter.
This week marks the anniversary of the first flight of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey when, on March 19, 1989, the prototype tiltrotor briefly bested gravity for the first time at Bell’s facility in Arlington, Texas.
It looks like we’ll be seeing some AK-coded F-35As flying around the Last Frontier in the near future, as Eielson AFB is likely to become home to two squadrons comprising 48 Lightning II aircraft. The Air Force already announced Eielson as being a preferred Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) base for the 5th generation jet, and is holding […]
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