Fight's On! The Threat

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

History, Personal Journals, Technology, Society & Culture, Government, Leisure, Aviation

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

“The Threat” describes the nature of America’s aerial adversaries and how we simulate them. Host stories and experiences explain the concept and need for DACT and OPFOR while also discussing the changes over time in potential enemy aircraft, the surface-to-air threat, and our own Aggressor/Adversary aircraft including the declining ability of traditional Aggressor aircraft to model modern threats.

Fight’s On! is an eight-episode series about combat aviation training focusing on how the U.S. takes newly minted (warrant) officers and molds them into combat aviators able to fight and win in today’s high-tech battlespace.

Told through the stories and experiences of U.S. military aviators in their own voices, Fight’s On! takes the listener on the journey of combat aviators from Initial flight training through advanced tactical training and multi-unit exercises, ultimately describing the current and near future systems and programs that will ensure American air dominance into the future.

Fight's On! is a production of Authentic Media in association with BVR Productions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Fightson is produced with commercial consideration from Kubik Corporation.
0:04.2	Since 1972, Kubik's ACMI has been a cornerstone of air combat range instrumentation.
0:10.8	Kubik's LVC will expand that capability into the future across multi-domain operations.
0:16.9	Truth in training, Kubik LVC, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
0:22.7	Welcome back to Fightson. Today, we're talking about how the U.S.
0:26.2	bottle's threat aircraft and tactics, specifically through the employment of U.S.A.F.
0:31.0	aggressors squadrons. Joining us today is a familiar voice to listeners of the Fighter Pilot
0:35.9	podcast, U.S.A.F.F.16 Pilot Trevor Boat Boswell. In addition to serving in the combat air force
0:42.8	as an F-16 pilot and instructor, Boat was also an aggressor, flying the F-16 out of
0:48.2	Ilson Air Force Base in Alaska, simulating potential threats to better prepare U.S.
0:53.1	aviators to go in harm's way. So get ready, comrades, because fight is on.
1:02.7	We want to meet better and harder than any adversary to defeat than you will ever experience
1:08.8	in combat. You know, they would freeze and they'd blow through the merge and they wouldn't do
1:16.0	what they were supposed to do. To be successful at first sight of these in combat,
1:22.2	it could take away some of the mystery of what these enemy aircraft these pigs could do.
1:28.0	The aggressors are entering the air space at this time.
1:48.6	Turn in, fight on.
1:50.9	All right. Welcome back, everyone. We're here with Trevor Boat Boswell, U.S.A.F.F-16 Pilot
1:57.5	instructor pilot and aggressor pilot, also co-host of the Fighter Pilot podcast
2:03.6	and host of the Warbird segments on the Fighter Pilot podcast. Welcome Boat.
2:08.1	Thanks, Scott. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Well, hey, can you tell us a little bit about
2:12.4	yourself, your background that led you into the air force and to the Viper?
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