On December 14, 2005 the Commander of Air Combat Command (COMACC), General Ronald Keys declared the F-22A Raptor had reached Initial Operational Capability (IOC). In honor of its tenth birthday View More ›
Happy Tuesday, FighterSweep Fans! For this week’s milestone, we go back nine years to the first flight of the F-35 Lightning II. Love it or hate it, the F-35–in all of View More ›
In October of 2012, the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics presented a document outlining the need and justification to start development of a 6th Generation fighter aircraft to View More ›
A Russian Su-24M was shot down over Syria on 24 November by a Turkish F-16C, and the incident has brought about an interest in Russian aircrew escape and survival technology. U.S. View More ›
Happy Saturday, FighterSweep Fans! As some of you may know, there is a multinational exercise currently underway at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton Roads, Virginia–home of the 1st Fighter View More ›
On this day in 1986, at McDonnell Douglas’ production facility at Lambert Field in Saint Louis, Missouri, history was made when the very first F-15E Strike Eagle took to the View More ›
The UK’s Royal Air Force, having been a background player in the fight against Daesh, recently began their first strikes in Syria following a Parliament vote in favor of the campaign. Within View More ›
In October 2015, a pair of Lockheed Martin F-35Cs from the US Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23) and a test team from Patuxent River deployed aboard View More ›
Sixty-nine years ago today, the National Guard Bureau handed down the charter formally recognizing the 157th Fighter Squadron as a unit of the South Carolina Air National Guard. The Swamp View More ›
Those who work in the airshow industry have heard rumblings of this for the past couple years, but it appears as though the long-held speculation has turned into fact: the View More ›