Aviation Specials - July 2018
T HE QUIET, REMOTE, desert of north Nevada isn’t quite where you’d expect the US Navy to perfect its war ghting skills. However ...
17s, MiG-19s and MiG-21s of the North Vietnamese Air Force. From 1965 through late 1968, when Operation ‘Rolling Thunder’ came t ...
Top: The initial TOPGUN instructors were part of VF-121’s Tactics Phase section. Shown here are several of the original instruct ...
air-to-ground instruction, which was later dropped in favor of additional air- to-air work. TOPGUN instructors, ying borrowed ...
Above: One of TOPGUN’s F-16Bs at work over the Fallon ranges. Most of the sorties on the course are relatively short air-to-air ...
although it was still exclusively air-to-air combat training. As the early 1990s progressed, TOPGUN moved into a brand-new facil ...
Left page top: One of TOPGUN’s freshly painted ‘Vipers’ returns to Fallon. Left page center: Instructors and graduates wear the ...
Headquartered at MCAS Yuma in Arizona, MAWTS-1 hosts the weapons and tactics instructor (WTI) course twice a year, with graduate ...
wing aircraft such as a C-17 or a C-5 can carry way more, but you can’t put those anywhere you want, whereas a ‘53’ can land in ...
cannons, ammunition, and personnel for an artillery battery, haul Humvees or light armored vehicles from ship to shore, move fue ...
Right top to bottom: The CH-53E can carry 30 troops as standard, but this can be increased if necessary. Supporting the troops o ...
A wonderful shot that conveys the sheer size and power of the CH-53E as a WTI crew flares for landing. (^32) UNIT REPORT US NAVY ...
integrate with other assets for large force operations. It also serves as a laboratory in which to validate emerging technologie ...
both students and ‘blue air’ enablers combining with an infantry battalion to create a MAGTF for the duration of the course, wit ...
In 2014, I got to lift a British Chinook in Afghanistan. It took some rounds doing a tactical operation and it lost its fl ight ...
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‘JOLLY ROGERS’ AT (^38) PHOTO REPORT US NAVY & MARINE CORPS AIR POWER YEARBOOK 2018 38-39 VFA-103 C.indd 38 01/06/2018 10:41 ...
F ORMED AS VF17 — an F4U Corsair operator — in January 1943, the ‘Jolly Rogers’ have existed under a number of guises, now as V ...
Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is on a roll. Having notched up its fi rst aerial kill, the US Navy is also standing behind the ...
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