Tag: DACT

To realistically carry out their duty U.S. Navy adversary pilots need the best aircraft to simulate the bandits during DACT sorties Replicating the real world threat that American fighter pilots can encounter in an air-to-air engagement is the primary task of U.S. Navy adversary pilots, hence to realistically carry out their duty, they need the best aircraft to simulate the...

Fighting Saints' F-5 Tiger IIs, are all painted in a variety of colorful paint schemes of blue, gray, brown and even black camouflage  Even if Fighter Composite Squadron (VFC) 13 "Fighting Saints" origins can be traced back to 1946, when VF-753 was commissioned flying F6F-5 Hellcats, today's squadron was born on Sept. 1, 1973, at Naval Air Station (NAS) New...