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A podcast all about fighter planes, military aircraft, and aviation history. We will take a look at the pilots, designers, engineers, and maintainers who have flown or worked on some of the most iconic aircraft in history. Available on all podcast steaming platforms, you can find a full directory here:https://pilotphotog.buzzsprout.comWant even more content? You can subscribe to my free newsletter here: hangarflyingwithtog.comFollow me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @pilotphotogNow you

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23:18

How The AIM-424 Malice Gives The Navy Stealthy 250...

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2026/09/02

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: Support the show To help support this podcast and become a PilotPhotog ProCast member: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1555784/support If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to this podcast, you can find links to most podcast streaming services here: PilotPhotog Podcast (buzzsprout.com) Sign up for the free weekly newsletter Hangar Flyingwith Tog here: https://hangarflyingwithtog.com You can check out my Y...

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136:09

Rhino: The Navy’s Do-It-All Fighter

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2026/08/24

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: The jet that lost to the F-16 didn’t fade into history, it became the backbone of US carrier aviation. We follow the improbable rise from the YF-17 to the F/A-18 Hornet, then into the larger F/A-18E/F Super Hornet “Rhino,” a platform built to launch off a pitching flight deck, take punishment on landing, and still show up the next day ready to fly. We break down what made the Hornet family so valuable: true multirole de...

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31:19

The Navy’s All-Weather Workhorse

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2026/08/10

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: One of the most capable strike aircraft the US Navy ever put on a carrier deck was also one of the least glamorous. The Grumman A-6 Intruder was subsonic, broad-nosed, and routinely called names like “Double Ugly” but it could do something rivals struggled to match: find and hit defended targets through clouds and darkness, then bring its crew home. We start with a hair-raising Vietnam War night raid over North Vietnam t...

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23:28

How The EF-111A Raven Blindfolded Enemy Radar

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2026/07/21

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: Radar makes modern air defense possible. So what happens when you bring an aircraft whose whole job is to make radar lie, scream, or go blind at exactly the wrong moment? That is the EF-111A Raven, a Mach 2-plus tactical jamming jet with zero weapons on board and a reputation so strong that fighter pilots wanted it on their wing anyway. We walk through the Cold War problem set that created it: Soviet Ground Contro...

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18:08

Six Aircraft That Guard American Freedom

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2026/07/04

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: 250 years ago, the United States began as a risky idea written on parchment. Today that idea is protected by something you can hear, see, and measure: air power built to deter wars before they start and to win if deterrence fails. We tell that story through six aircraft that form a living bridge between America’s past and its next century, from fighters that own the sky to bombers that reach the unreachable. We begin wi...

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16:55

How The B-21 Hit Flight Test Milestones In Record Time

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2026/07/01

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: A stealth bomber that moves from concept to prototype to flight faster than expected is already rare. A stealth bomber that then crushes its own developmental flight testing timeline is almost unheard of. We dig into how the B-21 Raider is pulling that off at Edwards Air Force Base and why the real story isn’t just the flying wing shape, it’s the process behind it. When a Combined Test Force can finish a 180-day test pla...

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24:53

The Navy’s Forgotten Spy Jet

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2026/06/23

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: A carrier strike doesn’t start with bombs, it starts with knowing what’s watching you. Today I’m telling the story of the ES-3A Shadow, one of the Navy’s most unusual aircraft and one of its most valuable: a carrier-based SIGINT and ELINT platform designed to listen, identify, and geolocate enemy radar and communications while orbiting safely outside SAM range. With its spine canoe, bulbous fairings, and more than 60 ant...

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11:44

How A Billion Dollars Turns The F-35 Into An...

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2026/06/01

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:Stealth isn’t “dead” and it also isn’t enough. What actually decides who lives in contested airspace is who can sense, sort, jam, and adapt faster across the electromagnetic spectrum, and that’s why the F-35 is getting a nearly billion-dollar Barracuda electronic warfare upgrade. We walk through what the AN/ASQ-239 is built to do, why wideband transmitters and smarter receivers matter against modern, networked air defense

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16:41

The Super Hornet Endgame

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2026/05/25

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:The Navy’s do-everything fighter is heading toward the end of the production line, and the question behind the headlines is bigger than one airplane: what replaces a carrier workhorse when budgets, engineering capacity, and strategy all collide? We dig into the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet story from the moment the Navy needed a lifeline after the Cold War drawdown, the A-12 “Flying Dorito” fiasco, and an aging flight deck that was

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14:13

Why The A-10 Still Wins Over The Strait Of Hormuz

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2026/05/05

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:The A-10 Warthog was supposed to be done. Too slow, too old, and too exposed for modern wars. Then Operation Epic Fury kicks off and suddenly the most advanced stealth jets run into a problem they can’t solve cleanly: small, fast attack boats weaving through commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, plus high-pressure missions that demand hours of persistent overwatch and instant, precise firepower.We walk through how the A-10

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11:23

Operation Epic Fury And The F-35’s Real Combat Test

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2026/04/22

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:A stealth fighter gets hit by a surface-to-air missile deep inside enemy territory and still makes it home. That single moment in Operation Epic Fury forces a hard reset on everything we think we “know” about fifth-generation airpower and it puts the F-35 Lightning II under the brightest possible spotlight: real combat, real damage, real outcomes.We walk through what Epic Fury reveals after more than 13,000 sorties, starting

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15:04

A $300 Million Combat Rescue Behind Enemy Lines

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2026/04/06

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:A single ejection over Iran turns into a 48-hour nightmare: one airman recovered fast, the other wedged into a mountain crevice while patrols sweep the ridgelines and a bounty spreads across the highlands. We walk through how that kind of isolation becomes a strategic crisis, not just a rescue problem, especially after years of assuming near-total aerial invulnerability. When a nation is hunting one person, every radio burst,

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9:35

How The Air Force Pulled A Downed F-15E Crewman Out...

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2026/04/04

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:Support the showTo help support this podcast and become a PilotPhotog ProCast member: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1555784/supportIf you enjoy this episode, subscribe to this podcast, you can find links to most podcast streaming services here: PilotPhotog Podcast (buzzsprout.com)Sign up for the free weekly newsletter Hangar Flyingwith Tog here: https://hangarflyingwithtog.com You can check out my YouTube channel for many videos on

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25:57

How The Navy Built A Digital Submarine Hunter

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2026/04/01

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:The ocean is the perfect place to hide a weapon you never want seen, and nuclear submarines proved it. We follow the moment the US Navy realizes its World War II era anti-submarine warfare playbook can’t protect billion-dollar supercarriers anymore, then track the unlikely solution: a compact jet that sounds like a vacuum cleaner and thinks like a computer. The Lockheed S-3 Viking, nicknamed the “Hoover,” isn’t built for speed

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18:54

The Four Jets That Win Carrier Wars

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2026/03/13

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: An aircraft carrier can look like a steel monument to power, but the real story is what happens when it stops being a symbol and becomes a system. We walk through Operation Epic Fury as a blueprint for modern carrier warfare: two carriers in two seas creating a shield and sword, dividing the battlespace, and forcing an enemy to defend against multiple launch points, multiple tempos, and overlapping layers of surveillance...

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20:21

Bone At The Gates

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2026/03/09

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:A freezing South Dakota night, wrenches crusted in frost, and a bomber built to bend physics and distance to its will. We take you from the flight line to the target area to unpack how the B‑1B Lancer—once a controversial Cold War project—became America’s relentless conventional strike hammer during Operation Epic Fury.We break down the numbers that matter: thrust‑to‑weight at max takeoff, wing loading versus runway length, and

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14:52

Eagles Down Over Kuwait

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2026/03/02

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message: A blazing flat spin over Kuwait wasn’t the story anyone expected during Operation Epic Fury. Three F-15E Strike Eagles—flown by some of the most experienced crews in the world—were knocked down by a friendly battery while defending vital energy infrastructure under alarm-red conditions. We walk through the chain that made it possible: saturated electronic warfare drowning IFF handshakes, clean-profile Eagles at low altit...

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10:04

Invisible Hours Before Sunrise

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2026/03/02

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:The sky over Tehran burned at 0300, but the outcome had been scripted hours earlier in the dark. We pull back the curtain on Operation Epic Fury to show how a fifth‑generation architecture—Raptors, Lightnings, carriers, growlers, drones, and tireless tanker crews—shaped the fight before the first Tomahawk ever left its tube. This isn’t a tale of single jets and hero shots; it’s a story about networks, timing, and the people who

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14:45

Cheap Drones, Costly Lessons

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2026/02/23

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:What if the smartest move isn’t building the strongest shield, but flooding the sky with cheap spears? We unpack the rise of LUCAS, a $35,000 one-way attack drone that turns the cost math of modern warfare on its head and forces a rethink of deterrence, doctrine, and industry. By studying adversary tactics and embracing “good enough,” we show how the United States pivoted from slow, exquisite programs to rapid, scalable

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15:14

The C-17 Globemaster And The Quiet Power Of Logistics

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2026/02/16

Enjoyed this episode or the podcast in general? Send me a text message:A cargo jet that doesn’t dogfight, doesn’t sneak, and rarely breaks the speed of sound reshaped modern power by doing one thing better than anyone else: showing up with the right cargo, at the right place, right on time. We dig into the C‑17 Globemaster’s improbable rise from near‑cancellation to cornerstone of air mobility, and why professionals talk logistics when the stakes are highest.We take you from the Cold War gap that

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