Category: Aviation

Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida is the Birthplace of Naval Aviation. The air station was built in 1913 and is still in use today. It is home to the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Team Blue Angels, the Naval Aviation Museum, the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC), the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI), and Training Air […]

It is not very often (if ever) you see special operation forces invade a US city but last May if you were in Tampa, Florida you might have seen it happening as part of the International Special Operations Forces Week. This is one video you must see! Operations began quietly enough, with a team impersonating opposition […]

This video of President Trump onboard Marine One landing on the desk of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier to give a speech has a lot of interesting visuals to say the least. Definitely worth a watch for all military aviation fanatics. The video starts off showing a FOD walkdown on the flight deck, […]

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. James Hecker, 19th Air Force commander delivered the last new C-130J aircraft to the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base and presented a ceremonial key to Staff Sgt. Joshua Shields marking the occasion. This was the 14th and final C-130J model delivery and completes the 314th’s transition from […]

Enjoy the view from the cockpit of a U.S. Army CH-47F helicopter as it flies low over the desert and some mountainous areas in Djibouti, Africa last December. The Chinook is from the Army’s 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) which is stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The CH-47 Chinook is a twin engine, tandem rotor helicopter […]

The F-16 Fighting Falcon, in addition to being a premier air-to-air combat platform also performs a very important mission called SEAD or Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. Also known as “Wild Weasel” the mission is to enter enemy airspace early and disrupt or destroy their air defenses. This allows the main strike package of aircraft […]

Boeing announced Thursday that they intend to enter the competition to replace the Air Force’s venerable Huey helicopter with a MH-139 variant of the Leonardo AW139. Leonardo, an Italian aerospace company  says there are about 900 AW139s in service around the world in many countries including Ireland, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Thailand […]

March 3, 1969 was a memorable day for the US Navy (and for Tom Cruise) with the establishment of the famed Fighter Weapons School better known as ‘Top Gun’ at the former Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar, California. Watch: What is Top Gun? Background: During the early years of the Vietnam War the US suffered […]

Our military forces truly never sleep! They are deployed around the entire world, in every time zone and in many cases very remote locations. This photo shows our US forces hard at work where young Marine Corps Corporal Christopher Russell, a landing support specialist, oversees a CH-53E Super Stallion lifting a heavy concrete barrier. This […]

The commander of the Operation Inherent Resolve coalition, Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, said that Tuesday Russian and Syrian aircraft bombed militia forces that are supported by the US in Syria. It is being reported that the series of bombings came within about three miles of US forces operating in the area. US personnel advising and […]

China is advancing their drone capability with the first flight of their Wing-Loong II reconnaissance and strike drone on February 27. The state-run Xinhua News Agency also announced that they have received a large order from an unnamed customer for the aircraft system. First revealed in September 2015 and exhibited as a model at the Singapore […]

Fighter Sweep reported to you back on February 6th that an Army drone had gone missing after taking off from Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Well, guess what? They found the drone below a tree near Evergreen, Colorado over 600 miles from where it took off! The drone had been missing for 10 days before it was […]