Fighter Sweep

Happy Birthday, Air Force! You’re Old!

September 22, 2021

September 18th marks the 74th birthday of the United States Air Force. Or, at least, the 74th anniversary of the adoption papers being signed. The Air Force’s Conception When View More ›

A Bridge Too Far: Operation Market Garden Begins on September 17, 1944

September 22, 2021

On September 17, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a bold and dangerous operation they had hoped would catapult their armies across the Rhine, into the heart of Germany, View More ›

Watch What Happens When Aircraft Are Almost Hit by Their Own Bombs

It happens so often, it is almost routine. An aircraft is trying to take out a ground target and moves in to drop its bombs. The bombs then leave the View More ›

The Air Force’s Software Chief Resigns as Pentagon Takes Control of Millions of IP Addresses

September 21, 2021

Nicolas Chaillan, the U.S. Air Force’s first chief software officer dropped his resignation letter, on LinkedIn, on September 2; he gave the reason as a lack of support. His resignation View More ›

AFSOC Moves Forward With Plans for an MC-130J Seaplane

September 20, 2021

Back in May during the annual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) said it was looking into the development of a plane that View More ›

The Green Hornets of 20th Special Operations Squadron Respond at Ground Zero

September 14, 2021

Members of AFSOC’s 20th Special Operations Squadron, also known as Green Hornets, responded to events at Ground Zero in the best way they could: by going where others could not. View More ›

Major Richard Bong, America’s Ace of Aces

September 14, 2021

Richard Ira Bong was rightly nicknamed America’s “Ace of Aces” during World War II. He is credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft during combat while flying a P-38 Lightning View More ›

3 Things You Didn’t Know About the F-22 Raptor

September 9, 2021

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter tends to garner the lion’s share of media attention, but it was the F-22 Raptor that introduced the world to the very concept of a View More ›

F-22 Raptor Vs F-35 Lightning II: Who Wins This Dogfight?

September 6, 2021

Conceived in the ’80s, born in the ’90s, is the F-22 that millennial kid who can’t get a job because of the recession? On the other hand, the F-35 is View More ›

Paul Tibbets, the Ace Pilot Who Bombed Hiroshima

September 6, 2021

Paul Tibbets was a retired Air Force brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In View More ›