Expert Analysis Archives - Page 17 of 20

Why The F-35 Is The Right Aircraft To Defeat ISIS

November 30, 2015

If you’ve been paying attention to our coverage of the developing situation in Syria in this past week, you know one thing – it’s bad and getting worse by the View More ›

Happy Thanksgiving, FighterSweep Fans!

November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving, FighterSweep Fans! We wanted to take a few minutes of your time to say thank you. We cover a broad spectrum in our readership–from the young student who View More ›

Head To Head: Turkish F-16C versus Russian Su-24M

November 25, 2015

Comparing a Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer to a Lockheed-Martin F-16 Viper (Fighting Falcon for the nerds at home) is like comparing a heavy duty, ¾-ton pickup truck to a Corvette on View More ›

Inside Russia’s Mission To Rescue Its Pilots

November 24, 2015

Combat Search and Rescue is one of the highest risk missions that exist on the modern battlefield. The situation is often fluid and very dynamic; the “known” information is extremely View More ›

Carrier Flight Ops Aboard The Stennis

November 21, 2015

Great news FighterSweep Fans! We have a ton of great footage from the flight deck of CVN-74, the USS John C Stennis. We had the chance to go out and View More ›

Veterans Day And The Air Force Memorial

November 11, 2015

My travels recently took me to Washington D.C. and allowed me a brief visit at the spectacular United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. It was erected adjacent to View More ›

The World’s Safest Airlines

November 8, 2015

A quick search on Google yields plenty of varying methods of ranking the world’s airlines. You can easily sort airlines (at least those in the US) out by their on-time View More ›

Was There A Bomb On Metrojet 9268?

November 4, 2015

There are three leading theories regarding the loss of Metrojet 9268 on Oct. 31, 2015: 1) a missile fired from the ground, 2) mechanical malfunction which resulted in catastrophic damage, View More ›

Milestone Monday: The CH-47 Chinook At 54!

September 21, 2015

The history of aviation is one of constant innovation. When you consider that mankind went from powered flight to breaking the sound barrier in a mere forty-four years, finding this View More ›

9 Haunting Aviation Mysteries

August 29, 2015

Ever since flying machines began taking to the skies there have been instances of an airship or aircraft disappearing, sometimes with little or no trace, making it very difficult for View More ›