combat aircraft

Quickstrike mines. In early June 2018, two B-1Bs took of from Dyess AFB, Texas, and lew to the Baltic Sea, dropping inert Mk62s ...

F AST, SLEEK AND deadly, the F3D Skyknight was designed and built by Douglas as a carrier-based night ighter in the years immedi ...

It was equipped with two internal 200- watt jammers and could carry external electronic countermeasures (ECM) pods or cha dispe ...

to friendly air operations supporting ground troops in the area. In August 1966, the North Vietnamese placed a Soviet or Chinese ...

questions as how we got that hit [while]  ying at the directed altitude. ‘We were saved from these questions when 7th Air Force ...

low along the roads to intercept vehicles moving at night. Nocturnal  ights in support of USAF road tra c attacks were much di ...

we were supposed to ease down through the cloud to where we could pick up the C-130. All of a sudden, I saw  ashing lights. Eas ...

SAMs were oloaded from ships and sent out to all areas of North Vietnam. The toughest assignment the EF-10B had was trying to ge ...

Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian Kimball FREE DVD WHEN YOU TAKE OUT A 2 YEAR OR DIRECT DEBIT SUBSCRIPTION 2 E ...

VX-31 ‘Dust Devils’ is a squadron that operates out of sight, but performs some of the most important duties when it comes to fl ...

inventory of the US Navy. It’s an airborne testbed and a versatile platform for evaluating various test articles including seeke ...

explains Som erville. ‘They are the block upgrades and [account for] a considerable portion of our work here.’ Each SCS wraps up ...

to-and-fro process of ironing out problems. ‘You never get to a point where you can’t proceed, because you had all that hard eng ...

gone through  ight school and have done their  rst  eet tour with an operational squadron. After that, they are assigned to o ...

assignment every three years so their experience is not lost.’ The extremely specialist world of VX-31 is only possible thanks t ...

Screaming down a remote valley to hit a target with precision, banging down on a carrier deck, engaging fighters at range — VX-9 ...

‘Development test aircrews have the knowledge to test the systems out very thoroughly and strictly in their  ight pro les, wor ...

Right: A VX-9 EA-18G Growler down low and pulling hard on a mission near China Lake. Peter Steehouwer Left top to bottom: An F/A ...

and matures through fundamental safety checks. Eventually it reaches a point where the bugs have been worked out and it’s ready ...

Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) guidance kit that provides unguided 2.75in (70mm) rockets with laser precision gui ...