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FAA Faults Pilot/USAF/USMC in Fatal Yuma Mishap

The investigation into the fatal March 2015 BAE Hawk mishap at MCAS Yuma has concluded, and the FAA is pointing in three directions. The Federal Aviation Administration has cited pilot View More ›

Navy Hornet Readiness a Major Issue

Both the Navy’s Legacy and Super Hornet fleets are having devastating readiness issues. Currently, three out of four Hornets are not ready to go to war. Why? The issue is View More ›

173rd FW Enjoys A Successful Deployment!

A Happy Saturday to you all, FighterSweep Fans! Our good friends down in the Land of No Slack recently embarked on a trip which took them to Kuopio, Finland. They View More ›

Thunderbolt Crash Into Hudson River (Update)

FighterSweep Fans, when things like this happen, we always hope and pray for a positive outcome. Unfortunately, yesterday’s crash of a P-47 Thunderbolt into the Hudson River did not turn View More ›

BREAKING: P-47 Thunderbolt Crashes Into Hudson

FighterSweep Fans, we’ve received news that a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City, where Fleet Week is currently underway. According to initial reports, View More ›

SOCOM To Test Laser Weapon on Apache

Does anyone remember the Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transports from the movie Short Circuit… Johnny 5? Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too? The film featured highly mobile robotics armed with small, View More ›

Barksdale B-52’s Fly 35-Hour Mission

In other words, don’t make any plans for the next two and a half days… In a mission to showcase the USAF’s long range strike capability, as well as participate View More ›

B-21: Former Air Force Senior Leaders Weigh In

FighterSweep Fans, we’ve heard a lot about folks who are disgruntled with the Air Force’s new B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber. Senator John McCain, as an example, has repeatedly threatened View More ›

China’s Dangerous Intercept of US Navy Aircraft

It appears as if no lessons were learned in the Hainan Island incident back in April of 2001. In that case, a US Navy EP-3 was intercepted by Chinese PLAN View More ›

Naval Research Laboratory’s CASA Camera Pod

On the technology front, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has designed a camera pod to carry on P-3’s and P-8’s that will provide video evidence of reckless intercepts by anybody View More ›

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