Capt. Nathanial Welch, callsign “Icarus,” flew close to the enemy, and protected other aircraft as they carried out their attack run.

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Dave Berke is a retired Marine fighter pilot and Top Gun instructor who explains what it's like to fly combat missions from ...

The U.S. fighter pilot who was shot down over Iran in April reportedly described seeing multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish, before ...

Retired Navy TOPGUN fighter pilot Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley criticizes Iran's 'radical Islamic terrorists' and stresses that ...

THE AMERICAN F-15 fighter jet shot down over Iran is feared to have been targeted by a swarm of drones operating in a jellyfish formation. The pilot told investigators after he safely ejected that ...

Pilots regularly grapple with high “G forces” while in the cockpit—forces that the human body is not meant to handle, and that lead to stress-related injuries over time. Flying a fighter jet is often ...

Hollywood can exaggerate to the point of lunacy, and that's especially true of many military films. But when you see an actor remove his mask while pretending to fly a fighter jet, it may not actually ...