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Combined with extensive and frequent submarine patrols throughout the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea, and forward-deployed forces in Syria, Russia has the capability to hold nearly all NATO maritime forces at risk.
FighterSweep Fans, today marks a significant milestone in modern military aviation history. It’s not because someone did something exceptionally cool somewhere with an airplane. It is actually because a pretty remarkable movie made its debut on the silver screen. I can’t even count the number of friends who got their aviation careers started because, thirty […]
FighterSweep Fans, here’s a feel-good story coming out of Operation Inherent Resolve. Our brothers and sisters aboard the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) have been doing some outstanding work. In fact, Air Wing Seven has dropped a record amount of carrier-based ordnance during its most recent deployment–over 580 tons, in fact! Continuing the coalition fight […]
FighterSweep fans, we touched on this one a while back. As the Navy’s investigation delves deeper into the causes of the oxygen issues plaguing the Naval Aviation community, the statistics are alarming: 15 episodes were reported in 2009, concentrated in the Strike Fighter community, as well as the T-45C Goshawks aviators receive their jet training […]
India and the United States have been militarily courting for the past two years, following a prolonged freeze in defense diplomacy and U.S. sanctions after India’s nuclear-weapons testing in 1998 . U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has recently returned from a three-day visit to India, his second trip this year. Mr. Carter discussed logistical requirements for […]
FighterSweep Fans, fifty or sixty feet is close. Thirty feet is REALLY close. Especially when you’re talking about clearance between a ship underway and a passing fighter which happens to be motoring along at fairly high subsonic speed. What does that look like, exactly? Well, ask the crew of the U.S.S. Donald Cook, a Navy […]
FighterSweep Fans, if these allegations are true, this is not good news for us. Edward Lin, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and Naval Flight Officer (NFO) aboard one of the most advanced SIGINT (SIGnals INTelligence) aircraft in the inventory, has been accused of passing secrets to China. A U.S. naval flight officer (NFO) with an […]
The men (and women) of the Greatest Generation are leaving us, and before too much longer, none will remain. That’s why men such as Norman Kleiss should be celebrated for as long as we have them among us. A Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in the U.S. Navy, he is the last of his […]
American fighter bombers fly over across South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia dropping bombs filled with tiny fiberglass shards. A few hours later, Viet Cong insurgents — and anyone else unfortunate enough to move into the contaminated areas — begin to develop maddening itches and painful sores. Some go blind from glass in their eyes. This was […]
Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! Despite what the date on the calendar says, we can assure you, this is not an April Fools joke. Contrary to what many are saying, the F-35 program is actually making significant strides in its journey toward full operational capability and system maturity. While it is true the aircraft has a […]
FighterSweep Fans, it’s hard to know what to say about this one. It leaves a lot of unanswered questions, the answers to which have very serious repercussions for the safety and security of U.S. Navy personnel at other installations across the country. It makes one wonder how a vehicle was able to get past the […]
Editor’s Note: For every person I know who has flown The Big Fighter, every single of them to a man–or woman–misses flying the airplane. For those of us in the Top Gun generation of aviators, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an icon, but it’s so much more than that. It awakened something in us that […]
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