148th Fighter Wing Deploying 300 Airmen To RoK!

FighterSweep Fans, our friends from the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, Minnesota will be deploying sometime next month to provide PACific Air Forces (PACAF) with a Theater Security Package. The Bulldogs will be stationed at Osan Air Base, which sits approximately forty miles south of the DMZ, and is also home to our friends at […]

Modern Long-Range SAMs: New Threat to Air Superiority

This week two stories from different sides of the world reminded US air power advocates why achieving Air Superiority may be more difficult in the 21st Century than it was at the tail end of the last century. First, it was widely reported that China deployed indigenously produced modern long-range surface-to-air missiles (MLR SAMs) system, […]

Of Wristwatches And Weasels

The next step was the exclusivity. Translation: the Bremont Wild Weasel 50th Anniversary Watch is available only to current and former Wild Weasel pilots and EWOs, or to the spouses or direct descendents thereof. If you don’t have a Weasel number, or aren’t married to or related to someone who has one, you cannot purchase this watch…period. The Society of Wild Weasels has the roster and each purchase will be vetted accordingly.

Syria's IADS: A Reason to be Concerned?

On 23 September, a coalition led by the United States began an aerial bombardment campaign against ISIS targets in Syria. The strikes come as a response from the Obama Administration to the growing threat of both ISIS and other extremist groups training and operating out of Syria. A video released by the Department of Defense […]

Guest Commentary: “That’s My Leader”

If you don’t care about your people then you aren’t a leader, you’re just a manager and would be better served working in Corporate America – certainly not in the U.S. Military.

To Suppress and Destroy: A History of the Wild Weasel (Part 2)

The new Republic F-105F Thunderchiefs and their crews faced a significant challenge, as over 100 North Vietnamese SAM sites were operational by August of 1966. By that time the Weasels carried the new AGM-45 Shrike missile, which homed in on the radar antenna itself. Although the Shrike presented more of a threat than the weaponry […]