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By Jon Lake 17th November 2023

… Stratofortress strategic bombers from the USAF’s 2nd Bomb Wing (BW) provided the backdrop for a historic visit by one … on the Korean peninsula.” Subsequently, on October 22, fighter aircraft from the USAF, JASDF and ROKAF conducted a … 80th Fighter Squadron ‘Juvats’ – a component of the USAF’s 8th Fighter Wing – four F-2A/Bs from the JASDF’s 8th Air Wing …

By Tom Kaminski 1st November 2023

… The Indiana Air National Guard’s (ANG’s) 122nd Fighter Wing (FW) celebrated the arrival of the first F-16C Block 40 … time after receiving them from the 54th Fighter Group’s 8th FS ‘The Black Sheep’ as part of a swap that sent F-16C/D …

By Khalem Chapman 2nd August 2023

… back more than 20 years, airmen assigned to the USAF’s 8th Fighter Wing (FW) in South Korea have once again trained alongside …

By Ben Dunnell 17th May 2024

… were flying the aircraft for us would take me under their wing and teach me. “And then, predominantly, I went into the … but what a well-built airplane. I love the P-51. It’s the fighter I’ve spent far and away the most time in, and it does … or anything like that. This one ties in so well with the 8th Air Force, but when we acquired the aircraft we didn’t …

By Khalem Chapman 18th July 2023

To honor the centenary of its air-to-air refueling (AAR) capability, the USAF conducted a series of tanker-focused flyovers across all 50 US states, as well as some of its deployed locations, as part of Operation Centennial Contact on June 27

By Jon Lake 19th December 2023

… 440 F-22s was judged to be sufficient to equip four F-22 fighter wings in a total USAF force structure of 20 wings … support three F-22 fighter wings in a slightly changed 20-wing force structure (12 active; 8 Reserve/National Guard). … squadron at Holloman to Tyndall AFB. At Holloman, the 8th Fighter Squadron was deactivated, and its aircraft were …

By Jon Lake 12th September 2023

… with the based Air National Guard F-15C unit, the 144th Fighter Wing flying multiple dissimilar air combat training missions. …

By Jon Lake 5th June 2023

… Elta EL/M-2032 fire control radar and is used for lead-in fighter training and light attack roles, and formed the basis … 2023. This training was provided by the 1st Fighter Wing at Gwangju Air Base, 329km south of Seoul, which had … of the 53rd Special Flight Group, based alongside the 8th Fighter Wing at Wonju. Two T-50B attrition replacements …

By Vladimir Kotelnikov 5th August 2023

… often overlooked combat theatre for R J Mitchell’s superb fighter. Soviet personnel got their first taste of a Spitfire … safely from a reconnaissance mission with a hole in the wing “though which the land could be seen”. Spare parts were … pilots usually making four or five sorties a day. On the 8th, four Spitfires led by Soldatov were to cover Ilyushin …

By Jon Lake 25th July 2023

… Raptor leads the way as a fifth-generation air superiority fighter, but its days appear to be numbered – Jon Lake … … List of F-22 operators Air Combat Command 1st Fighter Wing, JB Langley-Eustis, VA. 27th Fighter Squadron ‘Fighting … 25 June 2010) 7th Fighter Squadron inactivated 2 May 2014 8th Fighter Squadron inactivated 15 July 2011 301st Fighter …

By Dino Carrara 11th April 2023

… to Europe. Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptors from the 94th Fighter Squadron (FS) of the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia arrived in Europe … and April 7, but it was not until the third attempt on the 8th that the fifth-generation fighters arrived at Powidz Air …

By Christopher Miskimon 22nd September 2023

… by Maj J Tuck and 1st Lt J Rabeni of the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) hit him with an AIM-7E Sparrow … Col Robin Olds, a World War Two ace and commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW), decided to address the growing MiG menace and …

By Babak Taghvaee 12th September 2023

… of weapons. It included 18 single-seat MiG-29B Fulcrum-A fighter-interceptors, six dual-seat MiG-29UB Fulcrum-B combat-trainers and 12 Su-24MK Fencer-D fighter-bombers on November 15, 1989. An order for a further … two F-14A squadrons from the 6th TFB (Yasini) and 8th TFB (Babaei). All of the aircraft on order were delivered …

By ANDREW CRITCHELL 13th March 2023

… of you”, said Col Don Blakeslee on one occasion to his 4th Fighter Group colleagues — it illustrated his hard-bitten … pilot is Col Don Blakeslee, commanding officer of the US 8th Air Force’s 4th Fighter Group, a man who has been … the sortie apart from 30 B-17s of the 13th Combat Bomb Wing which hit the primary objective, an industrial area in …

By Babak Taghvaee 3rd June 2023

… a significant decrease in airworthy F-14A Tomcat fighter jets , due to the plan to replace them with Su-35SEs, … 40 aircraft so four transport squadrons and eight tactical fighter squadrons were tasked to prepare their pilots and … Tomcats, while the IRIAF’s F-14A overhaul centre at 8th TFB Isfahan, is performing the last F-14 overhaul. …