Here’s your day before Thanksgiving fighter candy. It’s two Swedish JAS-39 Gripens taking off from RAF Lakenheath in England to practice dogfighting this week against USAF F-15C Eagles and F-15E Strike Eagles that are based there. No word yet on how well the new-ish Gripen have fared against the older F-15s. Here’s an Air Force […]
Air-to-Air Combat
Here’s the latest bid for what might be the world’s next stealth fighter design. Steve Trimble went to Seoul a couple of weeks ago and was all over the South’s KF-X stealth fighter contest. Well, here’s what’s likely Boeing’s bid on the effort to develop a South Korean stealth jet. The image comes from a Boeing […]
So Iraq finally bought those 18 F-16s that it’s been hoping to buy for years now. From Reuters: The value of the deal was not immediately known, but a senior U.S. military official said recently the offer on the table for the Iraqi government was valued at “roughly $3 billion.” Iraqi and U.S. military officials have said […]
The Internet was aflame this morning with talk of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’s statement to 60 Minutes last night that his department has the ability to shoot down aircraft. Naturally, this prompted people to ask if the department has some type of surface-to-air-missiles. We’ve seen talk about the militarization of America’s police departments over the past few […]
Here’s an interesting little nugget of info that came out of this week’s Air Force Association conference in National Harbor, Md: Hawker Beechcraft and Lockheed Martin’s AT-6 entry into the Air Force’s light attack competition has been tested by the Air National Guard in the Air Sovereignty Alert (ASA) mission that defends U.S. airspace. The […]
