“MANPADS s**k. They're Gollum... and you're Frodo, flying around in The One Ring,” Lynn Taylor, former A-10 Warthog pilot. The… Read More
Post-war CAPs were usually quite uneventful, and the biggest enemy that threatened most F-15C Eagle pilots during this period was… Read More
No doubt, ROEs favoured the USAF F-15C crews. However, this did not mean that the US Navy F-14s did not… Read More
During Operation Desert Storm F-15E Strike Eagle #89-0487, or “487” for short, from 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS, today 335th… Read More
‘I immediately selected AB, rolled the aircraft inverted, and pulled. All this while keeping the SA-2s on the beam. I… Read More
‘What about the AIM-9? No the desert sand is probably hotter than the target-it’s good gun shot,’ Capt. Todd… Read More
As the F-4G crew prepared to take off in ‘Michelob 61’ (F-4G 69 0270, which ended Desert Storm credited with… Read More
On Jan. 17, 1991, Marine Capt. Charles “Sly” Magill flying F-15C 85-0107 was leading a flight of eight F-15s on… Read More
During Operation Desert Storm Canadian CF-18 aircraft took the fight to the enemy in an unconventional way on the night… Read More
Sqn Ldr Pete Batson and Wg Cdr Mike Heath caught an Iraqi Air Force Mirage F1EQ, rather than ‘MiG’,… Read More
In the early hours of Jan. 17, 1991, dozen USAF MH-53J Pave Low III and US Army AH-64A Apache… Read More
Secret Squirrel remained classified until Jan. 16, 1992, when the aircrew members and maintainers who made the mission possible were… Read More
On Feb. 6, 1991 section of two F-15Cs were living BARCAP along the Iraq/Iran border when they engaged and… Read More
‘Out of the black night, a bright, orange, twisting, tumbling fireball flashes forward into our right two-o-clock as Jim keeps… Read More
As far as is known, this was the first-ever encounter between an Iraqi pilot and the shadowy stealth fighter of… Read More
Those of us who are GenXrs clearly remember the film "War Games." We will not rehash that film, but it… Read More
“I didn’t think anything like this could exist. The intensity of the response coming from the ground was incredible,” l’Armée… Read More
This website uses cookies.
