Fighter Weapons Squadron News Today

The Aggressor Force at Nellis Air Force Base includes some especially tough customers. The aggressors will fly stealthy F-35A fighters that simulate a difficult-to-kill enemy.

We got unprecedented access to see for ourselves what it is like flying on a Combat Archer air-to-air missile shoot sortie.

Evaluating the efficacy of a missile starts with how it is assembled and loaded on the ground and ends with it scoring a 'kill' or not.

Combat Archer is designed to give fighter squadrons a final evaluation before deployments that could see them in real air-to-air engagements.

Why the Air Force puts its fighter squadrons through the exhaustive Weapons System Evaluation Program prior to deploying into harm's way.

An Air Force two-star general has been named the next director of the Missile Defense Agency, replacing Vice Adm. Jon Hill.

The first thing I notice are the posters. They portray heroic workers toiling for the Motherland, their brawny figures drawn in the uncompromising lines...

Tyndall Air Force Base hosted biannual exercise Combat Hammer and Combat Archer respectively during two-week-long Weapon System Evaluation Program-East 23.01 to provide squadrons from across the Department of the Air Force a multi-platform training environment to conduct air-to-ground and air-to-air combat operations.

The largest-ever maritime version of the Air Force Weapons System Evaluation Program will be staged at Eglin AFB test ranges from April 4-7.

The Weapons System Evaluation Program will include testing of both air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions, according to Heflin.