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Upgrading the F-5 to the Advanced Tiger: The Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter is a small, highly aerodynamic  and maneuverable jet  which was built around two compact and high thrust General Electric J85 engines.  The F-5 was designed from the ground up to be an easy to maintain, simple to fly, inexpensive multirole fighter.  With its origins dating back to the 1950s the F-5 has stood the test of time, it has become a popular export aircraft for many nations  and is still used today by the United States as an adversary or aggressor aircraft. Recently a company known as Tactical Air Support or Tac Air has been outfitting its fleet of F-5s with advanced avionics and sensors, bringing this versatile 3rd generation fighter well into 4th plus generation territory, at a fraction of the cost of contemporary fighters. Tac Air  has dubbed their modified F-5 the F-5AT or Advanced Tiger.    Today we will take a look at these modifications made by Tac Air, and how  the F-5AT could be a sensible addition to countries that need to upgrade their air forces due to the rise of near peer threats.

More information at Tactical Air Support:
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Listen to the interview with Future War series author FX Holden.  We discuss modern military tactics, 5th generation stealth fighters, and how he works with a beta team of experts to help source material for his books.

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Revealed to the world at the 2021 MAKS Air Show, the Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate is a planned single engine fifth generation stealth fighter for the Russian Air Force and as an export option for Russia’s allies.  Internally the fighter is designated as the T-75.

The model revealed at the air show is essentially an early engineering prototype; today we will take a look at what we know about the Checkmate including some interesting design inspirations, its reported capabilities, and which nations might consider adopting the Checkmate as their frontline fighter.

Video about the Checkmate:
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Let’s take a look at the X-51 Waverider and how the Super Hornet could be getting a hypersonic weapons upgrade!
The Navy’s current air deployed anti-ship weapon is the AGM-84 Harpoon, which has been in service for decades.  With over 7,000 examples built it is hard to argue that the Harpoon has been a successful design, however with its subsonic speeds and the quickly escalating capabilities of near peer adversaries, a faster longer ranged missile is needed.  As a result the  US Navy has begun  researching what it would take to produce a hypersonic anti-ship missile that could be deployed from the Super Hornet.  

Today we will take a look at some of the developments in the ongoing hypersonic missile research programs and how they would conceptually work on the Super Hornet. 

Video about the Completion:
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The Tejas is a single-engine multirole fighter which features a tailless, compound delta wing design that omits horizontal stabilizers in the tail.  This allows for better close-combat, high-speed, and high-alpha performance characteristics than comparable traditional wing designs.  Extensive wind tunnel testing on scale models and complex computational fluid dynamics analysis have optimized the aerodynamic configuration for minimum supersonic drag, a low wing-loading, and high rates of roll and pitch. Tejas is designed with "relaxed static stability" for enhanced maneuverability and agility. Originally intended to serve as an air superiority aircraft with a secondary ground-attack role, its flexibility permits a variety of guided air-to-surface and anti-shipping weapons to be integrated for multirole and multi-mission capabilities.


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Credits/Attributions
Cover art photo of the IAF HAL Tejas:

Venkat Mangudi, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Recently the Philippine Air Force or PAF has stepped up its efforts to obtain modern fighters, narrowing down their final selection to either the advanced Block 70 F-16 or the Saab JAS 39 C and D Gripen. This competition comes at a time with ever increasing tensions in the South China Sea.  

The economic and geostrategic importance of the South China Sea cannot be understated: Some one third of global maritime shipping passes through it, accounting for over 3 Trillion Dollars in trade each year. 

Today the PAF operates some 12 Korean Aerospace Industries FA-50 Fighting Eagle Light combat aircraft.  These FA-50s began operations for the PAF in 2015, after a decade long hiatus following the 2005 retirement of the Northrop F-5.

Either the Block 70 F-16 or JAS 39 Gripen would be a significant step up from the FA50, let’s take a look at the proposed offers for each aircraft along with their pros and cons for the PAF

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Dassault Rafale - The Omin Role Fighter

The Dassault Rafale is a French Designed and produced multirole fighter.  Intended to perform aerial reconnaissance, air superiority, interdiction, ground support, strike missions, anti-ship, and even  nuclear deterrence missions.  Because of this vast range of  missions, the Rafale is often referred to as the OmniRole fighter.  Notable features include a delta wing, canards, twin engines, a single vertical stabilizer and a permanently extended refueling probe.  The word Rafale translates to gust of wind or burst of fire in a more military sense.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro

0:45 Armament

2:26 Sensors

4:20 Development

9:22 Operational History

11:12 Future

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My Guest today is Rick "Kluso" Tolini who wrote an excellent book entitled "Call Sign Kluso - An American Fighter Pilot in Mr. Reagan's Air Force"

You can pick up a hardcover or digital copy of the book here:
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We discuss his experience leading up to and in Desert Storm, including his shoot down of a MiG-25 Foxbat.  We also get into what makes a good fighter pilot, the tempo of air to air combat, and effective leadership skills.  Rick's book is an absolute gem and I could not put it down when I started reading it.

Podcast Chapters:
0:00 Intro

0:28 Early Life

7:15 Kadena Air Force Base

14:30 Air Combat Tactics

19:13 The Human Factor

26:38 Desert Shield

38:44 Desert Storm

46:48 Training to fight

54:54 Add Value

58:11 Strafing in the Eagle

1:05:11 Why you wrote the book

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Covering over 100 years of the fighter in 10 minutes, we will take a look at the evolution of the fighter plane.  From canvas and wood biplanes to supercomputer equipped composite stealth fighters.

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It’s official, Switzerland has chosen the Lockheed Martin F35A Lightning II as its newest fighter plane.  In a 5.5 Billion Dollar deal that adds a 15th nation to the growing base of F35 users, the agreement also comes alongside an additional 2.1 Billion dollar deal to buy the surface to air Patriot missile defense system.  Switzerland’s decision to procure the F35 has sent shockwaves throughout Europe.  The Lightning II beat out the  Dassault Rafale which is produced in France, the Eurofighter Typhoon which is jointly produced by Germany, Italy, the UK and Spain, and even the Boeing Super Hornet.  Additionally, Swiss voters decided to remove the Saab Gripen from Switzerland's fighter competition some seven years ago. 

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Part of the NASA technology demonstrators, X-31 was designed to test thrust vectoring technology by using a delta wing, canards, and vectored thrust from the engine.   Designed and built by  Rockwell and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm or MBB, The X-31 was  part of a joint US and German project known as the Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability program or EFM.  The goal of the EFM was to use thrust vectoring and an advanced flight control system to provide enhanced control authority in pitch and yaw, this resulted in significantly more maneuverability than most conventional fighters.

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Listen to the origin story, current state and future of the F-22 Raptor.

Widely considered the best air superiority fighter in the world, the Lockheed Martin F-22 is a fifth generation, twin engine, single seat, all weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft.  Developed from decades of air combat experience the F-22 excels in its one true mission:  to defeat any air adversary it encounters. This is accomplished by the Raptor’s incredible performance, advanced avionics, and stealth profile. Notable features include twin tails, a trapezoidal wing, and a golden canopy which is coated with a thin layer of Indium Tin Oxide or ITO  which acts like an EM shield to maintain stealth characteristics.

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Lets listen to the story of  the latest version of the Super Hornet - the block III

Recently the US Navy has begun accepting deliveries of the Block III super Hornets.

This latest version enhances the already legendary Super Hornet to be even more survivable and networked into the modern battlefield.  

Previous Episodes about the F/A-18 Hornet:

From Cobra to Hornet:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1555784/7294126

From Hornet to Super Hornet:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1555784/7465435

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The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a Mach 2 single engine light multirole fighter which implements fly-by-wire controls and makes use of a relaxed stability design for improved maneuverability.  Notable features include a delta wing with forward canards, and side air intakes.  Manufactured by Saab, a Swedish aerospace company, the Gripen was designed to replace the Draken and Viggen, both successful previous Saab designs.  The Gripen is designed to be easy to maintain, and have quick turnaround times between missions. 

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The F-16XL is a cranked arrow  delta wing variant of the hugely successful F-16 Fighting Falcon or Viper.   Initially conceived as a technology demonstrator for General Dynamics, the F-16XL was entered into the Enhanced Tactical Fighter competition, and has reemerged as a potential solution for today's Air Force.

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The Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly capable fourth plus generation multirole fighter with exceptional performance, advanced avionics, and superior maneuverability. The product of lessons learned from the Cold War, the Typhoon is the result of an extended collaboration between Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK. 

Notable features include canards, a delta wing, dual engines with a split intake under the belly, and an extensive amount of hardpoints for mounting weapons. 

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Easily one of the most interesting looking X planes, the X-32 was a technology concept demonstrator built by Boeing  which competed for what was at the time called the largest military contract in history, the Joint Strike Fighter or JSF.  The X-32 was a single engine delta wing stealth multirole fighter that would have been produced in three variants: an Air Force version, a carrier based Naval version, and a Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing or STOVL version.    This episode takes a look at how the X-32 was developed, the design decisions that were made along the way, and its competition against the X-35.


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The F-18 HARV or High Alpha Research Vehicle was a NASA testbed used to study performance at high angles of attack or alpha.  The aircraft flew from 1989 to 1996 in a 3 phase research program that progressively added modifications to the Hornet.  

The aircraft that would become the F-18 HARV was actually a pre production F/A-18 and the sixth one ever built.  Having been assigned  Bureau Number 160780, this particular F18 was chosen as a testbed because it had a spin chute installed as the NAVY had used it to evaluate spin performance and recovery.  Under NASAs use the aircraft was designated aircraft number 840. 

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I recently read From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot by retired USAF Colonel Steve Ladd.  I reached out to Steve to see if I could interview him for my podcast and he graciously agreed. 

Take a listen to this episode where Steve touches on some of the highlights of his illustrious Air Force Career.  To get the whole story be sure to check out the book on Kindle or hardcover format at:

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08NSJ4SKW&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_WPQDTM32PHDYFRNQ25F4

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Let's listen to the story of the EC-130Q and its mission to communicate with nuclear ballistic missile submarines in case of an attack.  Scott, who worked on the TACAMO mission shares with us details on how modified C-130s are used to "drag a wire" and orbit - creating an incredibly powerful transmitter that can send signals for hundreds and even thousands of miles.  This system is still in use today, learn all about the mission, and the personnel who maintain readiness 24/7. 

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