Combat Aircraft – September 2019

CDR (ret’d) Joe ‘Yuri’ Guerrein was a student on the Skyhawk with VT-7 back then, before progressing to  y both the F/A-18C and ...

[tactical air navigation system]. That was it — not a great aircraft to bring back to the  eld in the morning fog at Meridian o ...

I thought it was an incredible honor to be one of the last students to fl y the TA-4J since this aircraft was an operational jet ...

have  own the TA-4J, TA-4F, the A-4E and the A-4F. I  ew the TA-4J as an adversary pilot, in test pilot school as well as in t ...

‘With its larger cockpit, the TA-4J was a more comfortable aircraft to  y than the T-45, although it was not as fuel- e cient, ...

I N MARCH, THE Navy Fighter Weapons School, otherwise known as TOPGUN, marked the 50th anniversary of the graduation of its  rs ...

weapons school as part of the reserve command’s Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 12 at NAS Miramar, California, for both the F-8 and the F ...

elevated to detachment status in 1971, TOPGUN had long fought for money and assets, including o ce space and aircraft. Indeed, ...

ended its TOPSCOPE program, merging some of its syllabus into the F-14 training RAGs VF-101 and VF-124, and started a traveling ...

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(FFARP, the Hornets called it SFARP), and also increased its role at ‘Strike U’, o ering an Overland Air Superiority Training ( ...

deployment, sent them through the nine- week course, and then placed them into one of several destinations: TOPGUN staff or one ...

New threats and technology From a tactics perspective, overseas operations in Afghanistan and Iraq had a significant impact on T ...

94 September 2019 //^ http://www.combataircraft.net DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINE OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY BY DAVID AXE Carlisle ...

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A-6E Intruder BuNo 154159 of VMA(AW)-242 ‘Batmen’ flies over the Pacific Ocean near San Clemente Island in the early summer of 1 ...

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