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F-5s Team With Avenger Drone, Bizjet In Air-To-Air Infrared Sensor Test
A General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger drone, two Tactical Air Support F-5 Advanced Tiger aggressor jets, and a modified Rockwell Sabreliner business jet playing the role of a surrogate fighter, recently...
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Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50
“I would say we are more valid now than ever before. With the Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary of Defense saying their focus is China, China, China, that’s what we are here for. We are here to...
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Hawker Hunter Aggressor Pilot Recounts Ejection Right Out Of Top Gun
Former U.S. Navy Super Hornet pilot Roderick “Hot Rod” Kurtz was surprised. On a fair-weather summer afternoon in August 2017, just under two years after he retired from active duty flying F/A-18E/F...
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Lockheed Hints Again At The Existence Of A Secret High Speed Jet
For those of you active on Twitter, it would have been hard to miss the buzz surrounding the Oscars yesterday evening. Top Gun: Maverick, the second highest-grossing film of 2022, racked up an...
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New Air Force F-16 Aggressor Squadron Stands Up
The U.S. Air Force recently converted a reserve squadron into a new aggressor unit equipped with F-16C Viper fighter jets. The redesignated 706th Aggressor Squadron will focus on replicating threats...
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Navy Aggressor F-5 Crashes Off Key West
The pilot of a U.S. Navy F-5N Tiger II adversary jet has been rescued after ejecting from their plane off Key West, Florida, this morning. An initial statement from the Navy indicates that the pilot...
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Top Aces’ Viper The “Most Maneuverable F-16 I Have Ever Flown”
“I flew a dissimilar basic fighter maneuvers [BFM] mission a few weeks ago against an experienced F-22 Raptor pilot. After the mission, he told me it was the highlight of his year! We will take that...
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Su-27 That Mysteriously Vanished After Private Sale Resurfaces
The U.S. Air Force’s famed museum in Dayton, Ohio has acquired a Soviet-designed Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. This is hardly the first time its had gotten a foreign-made, once adversarial aircraft to put on...
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Navy F-16 Recovered After Running Off Runway
An F-16 operated by the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC), the organization that includes the famous TOPGUN school, ran off the runway at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, in...
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Hawker Hunter Aggressor Jet Ends Up In Field After Aborted Takeoff
A Hawker Hunter Mk 58 aggressor jet belonging to private contractor Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, or ATAC, came to rest on a grassy patch at Naval Air Station Key West yesterday after an...
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A-4 Aggressor Now Boasts Infrared Search And Track System
Top Aces, the Canada-based advanced training provider, that specializes in ‘red air’ adversary support, has shown off one of its Cold War-era A-4 Skyhawk jets fitted with an infrared search and track...
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F-16 Aggressor Squadron In Alaska Becomes Unique Air Defense Unit
The 18th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS) based in Eielson AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska, has changed its designation to the 18th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS). This is a major switch and the first time...
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Marine KC-130 Delivers First Of New Batch Of Ex-Swiss F-5s Destined To Be...
The first of a batch of 22 ex-Swiss Air Force F-5E/F Tiger IIs being converted into aggressor jets for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps is now in the United States. These aircraft, which will receive a...
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