Fight's On! We'll Make You Better

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

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This episode explores the world of post-graduate fighter training through the lens of the Air Force Weapons School. Listeners will hear about the evolution of BFM and air superiority as technology changed from guns to first generation missiles through today’s high off-boresight weapons. This episode also introduces the limitations of physical ranges due to high speeds and long ranges of modern aircraft, sensors, and weapons.

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.
0:04.3	Since 1972, Kubik's ACMI has been a cornerstone of air combat range instrumentation.
0:11.0	Kubik's LVC will expand that capability into the future across multi-domain operations.
0:17.1	Truth in training, Kubik LVC, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
0:22.9	Welcome back to Fightson! Thanks for sticking with us through that last marathon episode.
0:27.8	There was a lot of information to take in. In true AAR spirit,
0:32.1	I'm taking some of your listener feedback and breaking this next episode into two entirely separate
0:37.2	parts. Part one of Will Make You Better features Air Force F-16 pilot and weapon school instructor
0:44.0	Andy Chaos Davis talking to us about the USAF weapon school, its history, concept, and execution,
0:51.2	and then we'll go a little deeper talking about the F-16 school specifically,
0:55.5	with air-to-air, air-to-ground, and suppression of enemy air defense missions.
1:00.1	So get ready to roll in on target because the fight's on.
1:06.9	BFM is a game of inches. We got to figure out how to one defeat his shots that are coming into
1:16.8	us and also kill him as quickly as possible.
1:20.7	So we're teaching our students how to have to drop bombs in very close coordination with friendly
1:28.5	guys on the ground. A lot of our bombs were not blowing up high order.
1:50.4	All right, welcome back. We're here today with Andy Chaos Davis Air Force F-16 pilot
2:02.0	and weapon school instructor to talk about the US Air Force weapon schools, their weapon school
2:07.5	system, how they teach, and what they teach. So welcome Andy.
2:11.5	Hey Scott, thanks for having me on the show today.
2:14.4	Yeah, absolutely. So I'll call you Chaos if that's okay. If you don't mind,
2:18.9	I give us a little background on what brought you to the Air Force, what took you to the F-16,
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