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Cope Tiger Concludes In Southeast Asia

Editor’s Note: Exercise Cope Tiger, a trilateral large force employment exercise between Singapore, Thailand, and the United States, has come to a close. The purpose of the Pacific Air Forces View More ›

Left Behind: Russia’s Forces Still In Syria

Editor’s Note: As promised, we’ve been watching the situation in Syria as the Russians have begun withdrawing their forces. Not surprising, the stay-behind contingent is still pretty formidable. It includes View More ›

Tomcat: A Fighter Everyone Wishes They Still Flew

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 View More ›

Is The Bronco Back Into The Fray For Good?

Editor’s Note: It will be curious to see what happens with the Bronco. The aircraft flew 134 sorties–120 of them in combat, and amassed 477.3 flying hours, and achieved a View More ›

Patagonia: Home To Secret Chinese Space Base?

Editor’s Note: I would say that we’re surprised, but we’re not. There’s nothing Secret about China’s ambitions to expand its influence all over the globe. They’ve been speaking with Portugal View More ›

Black Knights Fly Against Japanese F-15s

Editor’s Note: It’s not just the Air Force and Navy who get the good deals in the fighter world! VMFA-314, the Black Knights, had the opportunity to fly dissimilar air View More ›

Skunk Works: Invest In F-22 And F-35

Editor’s Note: If anyone has an appreciation for how difficult it can be to develop a next-generation aircraft, it would be the folks at Lockheed-Martin’s Advanced Development Programs division, better View More ›

U.S. Army Requests Small-Sized Drone

Editor’s Note: About five years ago, DARPA commissioned a program to develop a very small drone. AeroVironment’s “Nano Hummingbird” which looks a lot like its namesake, can actually hover in View More ›

C-17 Lands At Bryant Army Airfield!

We can log this one into our file of “firsts,” FighterSweep Fans: the Moose has gone where no Moose has gone before! Well, at least the winged variety of Moose. View More ›

Cost Of F-35A To Decrease By 2019

Editor’s Note: Here’s some good news coming from the F-35 program. According to Jeff Babione, Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 Program manager, the cost of the aircraft is going to drop significantly in View More ›

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