Tag: ATAC
ATAC is flying with MK-58 Hawker Hunter aircraft and the F-21 Kfir aircraft, four pilots, and a team of eight maintainers to support the rigorous VMFAT-501 schedule Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) brought its Kfirs to MCAS Beaufort on Nov. 6 for two weeks of training with pilots from VMFAT-501. Interestingly, as you can see by looking at the pictures in...
According to the company these Mirage F1 aircraft are the best equipped and lowest time fighters of their kind available to the industry After ATAC and South African defense contractor Paramount Group, also Draken International buys surplus Mirage F1 fighters. The company in fact announced on Nov. 9 that it has acquired 22 Mirage F1M and F1B fighters from Spain. These fighters...
"The company's F-16 offer separates it from competitors, who are offering third-generation solutions trying to be fourth-generation," Garry Venman, Discovery Air Defence executive vice-president Discovery Air Defence has thrown its hat into the United States Air Force’s (USAF) massive combat air forces (CAF) Adversary Air (ADAIR) competition by offering the F-16. Garry Venman, Discovery Air Defence executive vice-president of business development...
Paramount Aerospace Systems will operate them alongside Mirage F1 fleet that was acquired from the South African Air Force in 2006 South African defense contractor Paramount Group has bought four surplus twin seat Dassault Mirage F1B fighter jets from the French government for aggressor training. The group’s subsidiary – Paramount Aerospace Systems – will operate them alongside its single-seat Mirage F1 fleet...
ATAC CEO Jeffrey Parker said that Mirage F1 fighters, the company is still sourcing for additional aircraft in order to meet USAF requirements As we have already reported Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) had bought 63 ex-French Mirage F1 fighters for 21 million euros. Now ATAC CEO Jeffrey Parker said to Flight Global that the aircraft will be upgraded to compete...
Between 30 and 45 Mirage F1 fighters will be refurbished to fly again as adversaries against U.S. military aircraft As it was reported last month by several media outlets American company Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) had bought 63 ex-French Mirage F1 fighters for 21 million euros. Between 30 and 45 aircraft will be refurbished to fly again as adversaries against...
The pilot was able to eject and was recovered by a helicopter attached to HSC-6 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt On Aug. 22, 2017 a Hawker Hunter aircraft operated by ATAC (Airborne Tactical Advantage Company) defense contractor crashed about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego while it was “providing support to the Composite Training Unit Exercise...
How four Cold War Era Hunter strike-fighter jets can be a credible threat for the latest USMC fifth-generation fighter remains weird As reported by Lance Cpl. Ashley Phillips in the article ATAC touches down in Fightertown, trains with Warlords, on Apr. 13, 2017 the Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) visited Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort to train with Marine Fighter Attack Training...
Because of the F-22 and F-35 ability to track and engage large numbers of aircraft, large numbers of adversary aircraft are needed to create a realistic scenario for training the pilots As reported by Seapower Magazine, Jeffrey Parker, a former U.S. Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot and CEO of Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) told that the F-35 is easily able to...
