Fighter Sweep

From The Cockpit: A-10C Warthog Flying RESCORT

November 29, 2015

Happy Sunday to you all, FighterSweep Fans! We’re having a pretty relaxing weekend thus far, so we thought it might be the appropriate time to share with you some video View More ›

Burner Friday: VFA-154 Black Knights F/A-18F

November 27, 2015

Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! For this week’s glorious homage to Mach Diamonds and heat haze, we bring you this spectacular image by Scott Dworkin. It features a Boeing F/A-18F Super View More ›

Happy Thanksgiving, FighterSweep Fans!

November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving, FighterSweep Fans! We wanted to take a few minutes of your time to say thank you. We cover a broad spectrum in our readership–from the young student who View More ›

BREAKING: F-16 Crash in New Mexico

November 25, 2015

U.S Air Force officials report a Lockheed-Martin F-16 crash earlier today. The aircraft was on a training mission in Southern New Mexico, and we are happy to report the pilot View More ›

Head To Head: Turkish F-16C versus Russian Su-24M

November 25, 2015

Comparing a Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer to a Lockheed-Martin F-16 Viper (Fighting Falcon for the nerds at home) is like comparing a heavy duty, ¾-ton pickup truck to a Corvette on View More ›

Inside Russia’s Mission To Rescue Its Pilots

November 24, 2015

Combat Search and Rescue is one of the highest risk missions that exist on the modern battlefield. The situation is often fluid and very dynamic; the “known” information is extremely View More ›

Russian Su-24M Shot Down: What Are The Facts?

November 24, 2015

As we’ve reported to you earlier, a Russian Su-24M Fencer was shot down this morning after it allegedly violated Turkey’s sovereign airspace. “Facts” and “Truth” are radically divergent at this View More ›

BREAKING NEWS: Warplane Downed Near Turkish Border

November 24, 2015

Good morning, FighterSweep Fans. There’s breaking news coming out of Turkey: according to local sources, a warplane has been downed near Syria’s border with Turkey. A few grainy, cell-phone-quality photos View More ›

ROE for U.S. Pilots: Just How Restrictive Is It?

November 23, 2015

Happy Monday, FighterSweep Fans! It was a pretty busy weekend, so we’d like to catch you up on some of the latest coming out of Syria and the Rules Of View More ›

Will The U.S. Buy New 4th-Generation Fighters?

November 22, 2015

Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Fans! We hope you’re having an awesome weekend thus far and have had the chance to enjoy yourselves with some down time, or perhaps even some time View More ›