Did Daesh Really Shoot Down A Libyan MiG-23?

Good afternoon, Fightersweep Fans! If you’ve been following the news, you may have heard that ISIS has claimed to shoot down a Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, while several other of these aircraft have mysteriously crashed over the past couple of months. It is known that Daesh may possess IR-guided SAMs, some light Anti-Aircraft Artillery, and possibly even […]

The CIA’s Back Channel to Putin: Preventing U.S.-Russian Clashes in Syria

During the course of an interview that aired on February 14, 2016, on the CBS program “60 Minutes,” CIA Director John Brennan revealed that he is personally acting as a back channel to Russian President Vladimir Putin, communicating through Russian intelligence, to deconflict U.S. and Russian operations in Syria. In the interview, Brennan stated that he had […]

Saudi, Turkish ground operation planning begins in earnest

DUBAI and ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Feb. 13 that Turkey and Saudi Arabia may join forces for ground operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL) in Syria. Although a senior Saudi military official said the Royal Saudi Air Force deployed fighter jets to the Incirlik Air Base in […]

Tanker Crew Saves F-16 Pilot Over Syria!

Editor’s Note: We like to capitalize on every opportunity to extol the virtues of our mobility folks. It is absolutely the truth when they say “No one kicks ass without tanker gas…no one!” This is the perfect example of how combat airpower works in unison with support assets, where the tanker crew made the call […]

“Maloney’s Pony” takes the fight to Daesh!

A Lockheed-Martin F-22A Raptor belonging to the “Fighting Eagles” of the 27th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia spent some time with the F-22 Combined Test Force at Edwards AFB, California this past year, playing a part in the Signature Management Program designed to help maintain the Raptor’s low-observable traits as radar and detection technologies improve. While that […]

JASSM: A Terrorist’s Worst Nightmare??

Good evening, FighterSweep Fans! We hope you’ve had a spectacular day and, as always, we’re delighted to bring you the latest and greatest from the world of aviation–especially on the tactical side. So tonight we bring you a data-dump on what could certainly be categorized as a terrorist’s worst nightmare. Take a moment–if you would–and […]

B-1B Lancers Downrange: Taking The Fight To Daesh

Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Faithful! We know the articles have been coming through in a trickle for the past couple weeks, but please bear with us; we’ve been on the road doing our thing and generating original content for your eyes and imagination to feast upon, and we promise you won’t be disappointed! So with that […]

What Happens When ISIS Loses?

Of course their tactics will continue to evolve even after the last Daesh bastions have fallen. They will shave their beards, throw on their civis, and melt back into the populace—a vanishing act all too familiar to them.

Elite U.S. Targeting Force Now in Iraq

An elite U.S. special operations targeting force has arrived in Iraq and will carry out operations against the Islamic State, part of a broader effort in 2016 to strike at the militants.