by John Waters | Oct 23, 2026 | Beehiiv
Edited by Sidney McAlearThe WhatFor the past two months, we’ve taken you inside the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Roughly 6,900 people work there, about 96 percent of them civilians, and they sustain nearly every aircraft in the Air...
by John Waters | Oct 20, 2026 | Beehiiv
Edited by Sidney McAlearThe WhatOn September 29, 2026, the Navy picked Boeing over Northrop Grumman to build its next carrier fighter, the F/A-XX, with a full-scale development contract worth more than $20 billion that covers multiple test aircraft….not production....
by John Waters | Oct 14, 2026 | Beehiiv
Edited by Sidney McAlearThe WhatTaiwan’s first two new F-16C Block 70s landed at Chihhang Air Base on October 2. They’re the first of 66 ordered in 2019 for about $8 billion, and they arrived more than three years late. Weeks earlier, Air & Space...
by John Waters | Jun 22, 2026 | Beehiiv
Operation Midnight Hammer through the eyes of the F-16 Wild Weasel pilots who flew it. This is the firsthand account of the 55th Fighter Squadron and the 20th Fighter Wing. These are the pilots who fly Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, known as SEAD, the crews who...
by John Waters | Jun 17, 2026 | Beehiiv
In December 2025 and January 2026, we spent several days at Shaw Air Force Base interviewing the men and women of the 20th Fighter Wing & 55th Fighter Squadron, who executed Operation Midnight Hammer. From the F-16 pilots who flew into Iran to the intelligence...
