Category: Expert Analysis

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on June 6, 2018. It is being republished due to the recent news that the Marine Corps has once again decided to boost their corporate image by honoring a bulldog, Sgt. Chesty XIV, with a retirement ceremony while continuing to ignore requests to award the affected men of […]

Back in 2016, Fighter Sweep contributer C.W. Lemoine was asked what actually goes into a full fledged fighter mission by one of our readers. Lemoine, who aside from being an author also has plenty of seat time aboard both F-16s and F/A-18s, took the time to break down exactly what goes into each combat flight, […]

Analyzing threats to national security requires a geopolitically and chronologically macro-perspective. That’s increasingly difficult to adopt for an American public that is so deeply entrenched in a political system that chases daily headlines and that considers national policy to be in its twilight every three to six years as the nation prepares for a shift […]

Late last year, the Pentagon was forced to admit that they have been secretly funding a program that aimed at investigating military reports of unidentified flying objects, or as the Defense Department refers to them, AAVs — Anomalous Aerial Vehicles. The program, given the clunky title of “The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program,” was led by […]

Ukraine vs. Russia happens to be one of the most complicated situations to arise since the Cold War, but how did we get to this point? Which, if we are honest, is potentially military intervention in Ukraine, and — for all those who have not figured it out — we’re already back in the Cold […]

As NEWSREP has covered a number of times in the past, the Russian military has continued to expand — uncontested — throughout the Arctic region. Moscow’s success in the frozen north can be attributed to three things, and the fact that Russia has more Arctic coastline than any nation on earth is certainly one of […]

The Congressional Budget Office released a new report recently that indicated that America’s forthcoming air-superiority fighter, currently known only as the Penetrating Counter Air (PCA) program, could cost as much as $300 million per air frame. As a result, headlines painting the program as yet another example of rampant and unchecked government spending have flooded […]

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series focusing on the best encrypted apps and services available. Content has been provided by an anonymous security and privacy professional. Readers are encouraged to confirm this information on their own. Who is this for? Anyone who needs to communicate electronically. Sending an email or an […]

This is the second story in a series exploring the possibility of alien life visiting earth. To read about NASA, Harvard, and the Pentagon’s assertions, start by reading The UFO Question Part 1: NASA, Harvard, and the Pentagon are all taking UFOs seriously now. As discussed in Part 1 of this series, the resurgence of […]

Much has been made in the past week — on conservative talk radio and among the rest of the punditry — of the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant cert on an “abortion case” in which two lower federal courts had ruled that states violated federal law when they terminated Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates. […]

This past Monday, a paper written by Silvano Colombano, a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center, made international headlines thanks to the paper’s assertion that our planet may have been visited by extraterrestrial life. The ensuing media frenzy, Colombano admits, lost sight of his actual points in favor of exaggerated headlines and click-bait assertions… but […]

A few years ago, a Fighter Sweep reader asked about the real differences between the old F/A-18 Hornet and the updated Super Hornet. Now, with Block III upgrades for the Super Hornet on the horizon, it seems like a good time to revisit just what set the Super Hornet apart in the first place. The […]