Fighter Sweep

China’s Dangerous Intercept of US Navy Aircraft

May 23, 2016

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

May 22, 2016

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 ›

Two Brothers Commanding JBLE Flying Units!

May 21, 2016

FighterSweep Fans, here is an awesome story which caught our attention over the last few days comes from our good friends over at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE). Brothers flying during View More ›

Live Ammo Hits Apache During Training

May 21, 2016

FighterSweep Fans, scenario-based training is a place where you absolutely cannot afford to have any lapses in your attention to detail. It doesn’t matter if you’ve done it one or View More ›

First F-35’s for JASDF to Fly by Year End

May 20, 2016

Japan’s first F-35’s will be flying sorties from Luke Air Force Base by the end of 2016 according to a Lockheed Martin spokesman. The first batch of four is slated View More ›

BREAKING: EgyptAir Flight Disappears from Radar

May 19, 2016

EgyptAir flight 804, which was headed to Cairo from Paris disappeared from radar shortly after it entered Egyptian airspace. The aircraft is an Airbus A320 with 66 people on board, View More ›

BREAKING – B-52H Crash at Andersen AFB

May 18, 2016

This morning there was a crash involving a B-52H deployed from Minot AFB. It appears as if the aircraft went down within the perimeter of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, View More ›

RAF Intercept Three Russian Aircraft in Baltic

May 17, 2016

Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons taking part in the Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission were scrambled to intercept three Russian aircraft last week. The intercept is really nothing new for View More ›

BREAKING: Vintage T-6 Crash in Arizona Kills Two

May 17, 2016

Earlier today at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona, a T-6 Texan crashed just off the end of the runway. Preliminary reports are stating that there were two souls on board, View More ›

3-D Printer Helping Ease Global Hawk Restrictions

May 16, 2016

I’m at the age that views 3-D printing as one part awesome, incredible technology, and another part pure sorcery. Obviously the pure sorcery thing is just because I don’t fully View More ›