The video in this post features a Patrouille Suisse F-5 Tiger suffering a bird strike with a flock of birds… Read More
Super ace Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, once said that “of all the airplanes in… Read More
‘Every flight ended with the same result: MiG-21 lost, although he had much higher thrust-to-weight ratio,’ Vladimir Kondaurov, Soviet pilot… Read More
The Swiss Air Force F-5E Tiger II J-3089 featured the Swiss Air Force aerobatic team Patrouille Suisse paint scheme. A… Read More
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For Indonesia buying used weapons from other countries, such as the Austrian Typhoons, is an option to meet Minimum Essential… Read More
A Tunisian Air Force Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jet crashed in the morning of October 6, 2020 in the region… Read More
The Swiss government will decide next year among the Eurofighter from Airbus , the Rafale from France’s Dassault, Boeing’s F/A-18… Read More
A spokesperson from Armasuisse confirmed that discussions between the Swiss defense procurement agency and the U.S. Navy took place in… Read More
The F-5 in its current state only realistically offers MiG-21 'Fishbed' threat replication and desperately needs to be modernised to… Read More
Soviets had no mentality of ‘serving the customer’: they stuffed Arab air forces full of Su-7BMKs armed with R-3 rockets… Read More
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The Patrouille Suisse had to perform a flypast over Langenbruck to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Swiss aviator Oskar Bider’s… Read More
An offer to complement the Gripen E test aircraft with an operational Gripen C aircraft for the flight tests in… Read More
“Just as the first words from the radar operator came in "ten miles long final, gear down", I felt a… Read More
The Dassault Rafale, with its “Omnirole” capabilities, is the right answer to the capability approach selected by the Swiss Government. As… Read More
From the U.S. Navy perspective, short of actually having a Fulcrum or Flanker, the F-16N was as close to a… Read More
