How Eielson AFB aggressors provide realistic adversary training during Red Flag-Alaska
“We can go faster than any blue force is ever trained, up into almost Mach 2.0 to show them what it’s like if the enemy were to do that, which…
“We can go faster than any blue force is ever trained, up into almost Mach 2.0 to show them what it’s like if the enemy were to do that, which…
F-15 Eagle pilot Col. Rick N. downed a SU-7/17, making him the only wing commander to record an aerial victory in Operation Desert Storm On May 25, 2021, former F-15…
The nose art graphic is roughly 6 feet by 4 feet, featured on both sides of the F-15, and appears to display the American flag. But a closer look reveals…
The F-15C Eagle 85-0104 was flown by the 67th Fighter Squadron to commemorate this milestone Taken on July 1, 2020, at Kadena Air Base, Japan, the cool photos in this…
The three 493rd FS “Grim Reaper” pilots that shot down the Fulcrums were Lt Col Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez, Capt Mike “Dozer” Shower, and Capt Jeff “Claw” Hwang. Taken after the…
Combat aircraft aren’t some kind of medieval knights in a jousting tournament. They’re not even ‘Spitfires vs Bf.109s’ anymore. On the contrary, modern aerial warfare is one of the most…
‘At about two miles, I looked once again, but I was no longer thinking about taking a pre-merge shot. Instead, I planned to merge with the bogey just 50 feet…
Flown by LCDR Mark “MRT” Fox and LT Nick “Mongo” Mongillo on Jan. 17, 1991, each of these F/A-18C Hornets shot down an Iraqi MiG-21 Fishbed. On Monday, June 17,…
The 493rd FS would claim four Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Air Force MiG-29s destroyed during the brief campaign Operation Allied Force (OAF) followed repeated NATO warnings in 1998 to Serbian…
“This is the first time to my knowledge that an airplane scored a kill while carrying four 2,000-lb bombs, then continued to hit its target,” Lieutenant Commander Mark Fox, VFA-81…