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3rd May 2018

… FLASHBACK // 35TH TFW THE REPUBLIC F-105 Thunderchief combined Mach 2 … Guard and Air Force Reserve units. The 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) was one of three Thunderchief units attached …

By Stefan Goossens/4Aviation 1st March 2018

… high in the Pacific theater. The US Air Force’s 8th Fighter Wing, the famous ‘Wolf Pack’, stands at the forefront … squadrons flying Block 40 F-16CMs at Kunsan Air Base. The 35th and 80th Fighter Squadrons of the ‘Wolf Pack’ regularly … Group, operating KF-16C/D Block 52s with the 111th Fighter Squadron. ‘We train with the 38th Fighter Group’, says …

By Peter Foster 15th February 2018

… and Nellis. Two F-102A Delta Daggers of the 196th Fighter Interceptor Squadron taking off from Ontario – this was only one of a … Douglas F-4C Phantom IIs, 23 F-4Ds and 29 F-4Es of the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW), plus seven West German Air …

By Thomas Newdick 18th January 2018

… interviews Colonel R Scott Jobe, the commander of the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa Air Base, Japan, and learns how the … focus on the SEAD or ‘Wild Weasel’ role. The 13th Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘Panthers’ and the 14th FS ‘Samurais’ are each …

By Nigel Pittaway 22nd February 2018

… of two US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning IIs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) ‘Green Knights’ based at Marine Corps … Air Force) display team, an F-16C from the US Air Force 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa, Japan and a Tentera Udara Diraja …

28th December 2017

… be delivered in the Spring of 2018), 140 ‘Golden Eagle’ Squadron based at Nevatim Air Base spent 12-months working-up … to an official inspection of all aspects required of a fighter squadron, everything from training to some elements … of the eighth production series of Tu-160, and the 35th Blackjack, not counting ground test prototypes, is …

By Babak Taghvaee 1st December 2017

… hours of flight. In 1953, technicians of the 335th Mira (squadron) of the 112th Ptérix (wing) experimentally installed … the 349th Mira were phased out. The unit changed role from fighter-bomber to recce. The primary role of the Northrops … Larissa to Volkel on July 29, 1988 to take part in the 35th anniversary celebrations of 306 Squadron. It was later …

19th October 2017

… for the current F-15C/Ds. The RSAF’s substantial offensive fighter force comprises a mix of F-15S Strike Eagles, … Wing structure F-15C serial 501 (80-0078) from the 5th Squadron (nearest camera) and F-15D 3437 (80-0113) from the … go ahead in due course. One further transport unit is the 35th Squadron at Dhahran-King Abdullah Aziz AB, which has …

By and photos: Ivan Voukadinov 6th July 2017

… home, as Lt Col Christopher Moeller, commander of the 13th Fighter Squadron, which deployed F-16CMs to Eielson Air Force Base, … is an F-16 instructor pilot with the 13th FS, part of the 35th Fighter Wing (FW). During ‘Northern Edge’, the 13th FS …

By report: Jamie Hunter 6th July 2017

… 2050 on current estimates. An F-16C Block 30 of the 187th Fighter Wing, Alabama ANG. Ugo Crispioni F-16CMs of the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa Air Base, Japan. Jim Haseltine … community has led to plans to form a specialist CAS F-16 squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The aim is to help …

By report: Jamie Hunter 6th July 2017

… from the continental US. A pair of 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1Bs punches out decoy flares from the dispenser … Guam detachment, evidenced here by a pair of Misawa-based 35th Fighter Wing F-16Cs flanking a B-1. Guam sits remotely in the …

By report: Warren E. Thompson 5th January 2017

… ‘Chico’ was F-4E serial 68-0339 of the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron, pictured here on its take-off roll. ‘Chico’ flew … the older F-4D and to bring in another squadron from the 35th TFS. Push had finally come to shove in the war and the …