Patrick Roegies and Jurgen van Toor report on the developments taking place within the US Navy adversary squadrons
NAWDC is the last remaining legacy Hornet unit within Naval Aviation. With their final withdrawal from use, the Navy is faced with a shortage of adversary capacity
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United States Naval Aviation operates three different types of aircraft in the adversary role. It’s a job for the older experienced pilots with bags of air-to-air combat skill, wh ‘fight’ in the air with younger more inexperienced pilots of operational strike fighter squadrons. Their aim is to pass their skills on to the newer generation of Navy fighter pilot.
