Burner Friday: RAAF F-111C Aardvark

Burner Friday is upon us, FighterSweep Fans!  That means it is time for our weekly contribution to the FighterSweep afterburner photo album, and we hope you enjoy this one from the annals of Red Flag history, and courtesy of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)! For this week’s edition, we look back to February of 2009, when the […]

Australia's E-7A Wedgetail Reaches FOC

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has reached a major milestone in one of its critical military programs this month, declaring Full Operational Capability (FOC) on its fleet of six Boeing E-7A Wedgetails, the service’s airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft. Per the RAAF, “FOC is declared when the entire capability can be deployed […]

Royal Australian Air Force learning to GROWL

Five Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aviators recently completed training for the Boeing EA-18G Growler at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. Although the RAAF currently operates the two-seat Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet on which the Growler is based, this initial group is the first to undergo Growler-specific training with the US Navy. The Aussie aircrew trained with VAQ-129 […]

Video: Australian Hornet Ball

You all remember the Hornet Ball video we posted a while back, right? It is a video of captivating footage with Legacy and Super Hornets out on cruise, running low level training missions, shooting missiles, dropping bombs, and perpetuating absolutely everything cool about being a fighter pilot in today’s United States Navy. Ring a bell? Well, […]