Four A-10’s flew low over NFL Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday. The Air Force has grounded the aviators while an investigation takes place. Four Georgia-based View More ›
For decades the B-52 Stratofortess provided continuous support in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The aircraft was pivotal in ending the Vietnam War and has been the symbol for USPACOM’s continuous bomber View More ›
This opinion piece by former SECNAV John Lehman originally appeared in the Naval Proceedings Magazine in September 2011. By John Lehman The swaggering-flyer mystique forged over the past century has been View More ›
The F-35 Integrated Test Force at Edwards AFB recently completed 25 missions with Block 3F software comprised of 12 weapons delivery accuracy (WDA’s) and 13 weapon separation tests. The F-35’s newest View More ›
Editor’s Note: We recently saw a story that portrayed the DoD’s cost per flight hour of military aircraft. So we asked our resident FighterSweep financial expert and former F/A-18 pilot Brett View More ›
On August 19, 1981, F-14A Tomcat Fast Eagle 102 from VF-41 “Black Aces” shot down one of two Libyan Su-22’s. For years it sat in disrepair until it was restored by View More ›
Watch this cool time lapse video of a full day and night of carrier operations on the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) flight deck. It is pretty impressive to see View More ›
Two American fighter pilots who intercepted Syrian combat jets over northern Syria last week said they came within 2,000 feet of the planes. The Syrians were never aware they were View More ›
Ride along with F-16 pilot Nate “Buster”Jaros, as he takes us and his wingman for a night mission over Iraq to help an Army convoy in trouble. It was a View More ›
The USS Independence, a WWII aircraft carrier sitting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 30 miles off the coast of Northern California, as seen from an unmanned submersible. It View More ›