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SECNAV Frustrated Again Over Delay in Super Hornet Sale

June 24, 2016

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, in Germany for a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea last week, told Reuters he was frustrated by delays in approving the sale of the Boeing View More ›

2000th Strike Against ISIS for USS Harry S Truman

June 23, 2016

President Truman’s mantra “Give ‘em Hell” rings true with 2000th strike against ISIS Just prior to the end of her deployment, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman launched View More ›

US Navy Pivots to Asia with Dual Aircraft Carriers

June 19, 2016

PHILLIPINE SEA (June 18, 2016) The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class View More ›

Watch: USS Harry S. Truman strikes ISIS from Mediterranean Sea

June 6, 2016

Watch as F/A-18 Super Hornet jets and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) on June 4, 2016, in support View More ›

Dambusters Cruise: The Full Video!

May 31, 2016

FighterSweep Fans, I teased you a couple months ago with a little snippet of the Dambusters Cruise video. Ever since that video came out, we at FighterSweep have been accused View More ›

Navy Hornet Readiness a Major Issue

May 29, 2016

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 ›

Training To Fly The F-35 Lightning II

May 16, 2016

FighterSweep Fans, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the F-35 program and the associated topics. This piece we ran across is going to be a bit different, as View More ›

Top Gun: The Navy’s Best Recruiting Tool…EVER!

May 13, 2016

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 View More ›

Truman Drops Record Amount Of Ordnance!

May 10, 2016

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 View More ›

Navy: Pilots Losing Oxygen Regularly!

May 8, 2016

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 View More ›