Fighter Sweep

Burner Friday: Gomer On The Move!

March 18, 2016

Happy Burner Friday, FighterSweep Fans! Here’s a little shout-out to our good friends and Gomer brethren at the 64th Aggressor Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. As you all View More ›

Cost Of F-35A To Decrease By 2019

March 18, 2016

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 ›

Iraqi Combat Caravan Shot Down By Daesh

March 18, 2016

Editor’s Note: The Cessna AC-208B “Combat Caravan” is an Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) version of Cessna’s short-haul utility Caravan. Armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, the Combat Caravan View More ›

Su-35 versus Typhoon: Who Wins?

March 18, 2016

Editor’s Note: The Eurofighter EF2000 is one of the world’s most formidable multirole fighter aircraft. The result of the work of a consortium of companies–British Aerospace, Alenia Aermacchi, Airbus Group, View More ›

SkySniper: Autonomous Precision Strike!

March 17, 2016

Editor’s Note: Not only are the Israelis industrious, but they’re also pretty brilliant when it comes to developing advanced weapons technology. We talked a little about that in our various View More ›

Spawn Of Blackbird: Lockheed-Martin’s SR-72

March 17, 2016

One of our all-time favorite aircraft, the Lockheed-Martin SR-71 Blackbird, has spawned a successor to its place as the highest, fastest, most untouchable strategic reconnaissance platform that world has known View More ›

AFPC: Deployments Focus More On Mobility, ISR

March 17, 2016

Editor’s Note: The Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) reports the pace of deployments is slowing as compared to years past, but the current operational tempo the Air Force is maintaining View More ›

PACAF F-16 Demo Prepares For Season!

March 17, 2016

Editor’s Note: In all the years I’ve been attending airshows, I’ve only seen the PACAF F-16 Demonstration one time–and that was in Alaska of all places. A lot of folks View More ›

RuAF In Syria: “Mission Accomplished”

March 17, 2016

Editor’s Note: While there is some debate of what exact mission the Russian Air Force (RuAF) actually accomplished in Syria, Sputnik News has released a video depicting some of the View More ›

POGO: F-35 Not Ready For Combat Until 2022

March 17, 2016

Editor’s Note: It stands to reason that, while some of the POGO report is absolutely valid, it doesn’t take other things into account. Even in the past four and a View More ›