combat aircraft

N ÁMĚŠŤ AIR BASE in the Czech Republic seems an unlikely place to  nd Arizona Air National Guard (ANG) F-16s at work. However, ...

Above: Luftwaffe Eurofi ghters join an Arizona ‘Viper’ for close air support training over the Czech Republic. Left top to botto ...

BRINGING AN EXERCISE TOGETHER — THE LOGISTICS Maj Dowd told Combat Aircraft, ‘We attended an initial planning conference where w ...

everything including weather and any updates to the airield.’ Dowd described one speciic mission to Combat Aircraft. ‘One of the ...

that school at Luke [AFB] in 2012. I am one of the handful of CAS experts at the 195th. We had some tough weather the  rst week ...

ECR (Electronic Combat Reconnaissance). In 2016, Schafelhofer switched to the F-16 at Luke AFB before joining the Arizona ANG la ...

[things] much the same way as far as training and operating the squadron, so the transition is not that hard.’ One thing Scha e ...

T HE 1970S SAW the US Marine Corps’ three AV-8A Harrier- equipped ighter-attack VMA squadrons seizing every opportunity to show ...

In the conclusion of this two-part series, Combat Aircraft looks back at how the US Marine Corps fielded the AV-8A Harrier. REPO ...

On the road By 1974, the AV-8A was mature enough to take overseas. VMA-513 ‘Nightmares’ made the type’s  rst ‘WestPac’ (western ...

Rules are, there are no rules. I want you to screw with the Russians, because they’re going to be watching you real hard, and so ...

Atlantic when his air group commander tapped him for the mission. Spicer’s instruction was, ‘Rules are, there are no rules. I wa ...

HARRIER ‘PADDLES’ One of the biggest challenges in trying to land the Harrier was that while vertical landings required a descen ...

from the marines on the ground that rely on it for support. Absent of the ‘true’ test of combat, the periodic ‘Combined Arms Exe ...

AV-8A ORDNANCE Given its role as a daylight-only close air support (CAS) platform, the AV-8A carried almost all types of unguide ...

With BF-05 already safely on deck, Sqn Ldr Andy Edgell arrives above the HMS Queen Elizabeth in BF-04. Lockheed Martin 76 Decemb ...

S EPTEMBER AND OCTOBER were months of highs and lows for the F-35B short take-o and vertical landing variant of the stealthy Li ...

operations. Gray scored another  rst as he followed his maiden landing with the  rst launch from the ski-jump. This method of ...

modeling and simulation we have done over the years. I’ve  own more than 2,000 SRVLs in the simulator, and am honored to have b ...

DRIVING DOWN F-35 COSTS IN LATEST BATCH In the background to the operational scene, F-35 production continues apace. The US Depa ...