Why The F-35 Is The Right Aircraft To Defeat ISIS

If you’ve been paying attention to our coverage of the developing situation in Syria in this past week, you know one thing – it’s bad and getting worse by the day. The Russian Bear has been poked, and they’re throwing their best at the problem. The latest news out of Syria is that Russia has […]

Inside Russia’s Mission To Rescue Its Pilots

Combat Search and Rescue is one of the highest risk missions that exist on the modern battlefield. The situation is often fluid and very dynamic; the “known” information is extremely small and the risk to the rescue force is usually high. The critical factor to the confidence of the fast-mover pilots flying over denied territory […]

BREAKING NEWS: Warplane Downed Near Turkish Border

Good morning, FighterSweep Fans. There’s breaking news coming out of Turkey: according to local sources, a warplane has been downed near Syria’s border with Turkey. A few grainy, cell-phone-quality photos have emerged, showing what appears to be a Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer in flames prior to impacting the ground a short time later. We don’t know […]

ROE for U.S. Pilots: Just How Restrictive Is It?

Happy Monday, FighterSweep Fans! It was a pretty busy weekend, so we’d like to catch you up on some of the latest coming out of Syria and the Rules Of Engagement (ROE) for U.S. pilots. This past Saturday, the U.S struck an additional 283 oil trucks in the eastern part of Syria. That report comes […]