While no additional details about the intercept were provided ... FIS (Fighter Interceptor Squadron) based at Eielson Air Force Base. The unit, formerly 18th Aggressor Squadron, was the USAF ...

Greg “Papa” Wintill, commander of the 65th Aggressor Squadron — one of two squadrons ... for every U.S. plane that was shot down. For 18 years, the aggressors chalked up more than 250,000 ...

The Fighter Interceptor Squadron designation, last used during the Cold War, underscores the unit’s renewed focus on the air defense mission. The U.S. Air Force’s dedicated Aggressor unit in ...

15, 2024, show that at least one of the F-16Cs of the 18th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS), stationed ... The post U.S. F-16 In Aggressor Paint Scheme Intercepts Russian Navy Il-38 In The ...

Tasked with acting as sparring partners are the so-called Aggressor Squadrons, with the 64th presently doing so. Deployed with the 57th Adversary Tactics Group at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada ...

Currently, there are three Navy and Marine aggressor squadrons that fly the F-5N Tiger II, two that fly the F/A-18 Hornet, and TOPGUN, which flies a mix of F-16A/Bs Vipers, Hornets and Super Hornets.

For almost 10 years the JG-73 Fighter Wing flew as an aggressor ... squadrons in air combat against the Fulcrum. From Sep. 4 to Oct. 5, 2002, Exercise Agile Archer pitted Navy F/A-18 Hornets ...