Brown is a real-life Maverick, the iconic fighter pilot portrayed by Tom Cruise in ... s Top Gun program – he later returned as an F-16 Fighting Falcon instructor. Then, in 2005, he was assigned ...

Melaniya Podolyak, whose partner, fighter pilot Andrii “Juice” Pilshchikov, was killed in 2023 in a Soviet-era MiG-29 while waiting for the United States to send F-16 jets, posted a photo of a ...

"They are afraid to approach us," the pilot said. "After all, there is a living person sitting there, too, who also does not ...

A Ukrainian fighter pilot thanked Americans for their support in footage released on Tuesday, March 4. Footage released by F-16 pilot Vadim Voroshilov shows him holding a sign that reads, “Thank you ...

Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilots have thanked the American people for the opportunity to effectively defend Ukrainian cities from Russian aerial terror. Source: video ...

Noah D. Coger) The 56th FW has been the cornerstone of F-16 training, producing combat-ready pilots for both the U.S. and partner nations. The F-16 arrived at Luke AFB in December 1982 and pilot ...

The fighter jets help Ukrainians defend their cities from Russian terror. Ukrainian pilots of F-16 fighter jets have expressed gratitude to the Americans for the ...

Luke AFB has been home to both F-16 Fighting Falcon and F-35A Lightning II aircraft, and graduates more than 400 pilots annually, along with 300 air control professionals. The United States Air ...

Since 1997, when Taiwan procured 150 F-16 Block 20 fighter jets from the US, the Air Force had been sending about 10 aircraft and pilots at a time to train with the 21 st Fighter Squadron at Luke Air ...