USAF Fighter Weapons School

USAF Fighter Weapons School The Fighter Weapons Schools accomplished their mission by providing graduate-level instructor academic and flying courses to Combat Air Forces.

RF-4C Reconnaissance Weapons School taught graduate-level instructor courses, which provided the world's most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment to flight officers of the combat air forces. The School conducted extensive technical off-station training and liaison with CAF units from the U.S. Navy and NATO Air Forces. The School publishes the quarterly USAF Weapons Review with worl

dwide readership. All positions are competitively manned and students are elected in a highly selective process. Only students of the highest academic and flying weapon proficiency (the top two percent) are accepted into the course with nominations from the Wing Commanders, state Adjutant Generals, and a Weapons School Commander recommendation. In 1986, the Fighter Weapons School expanded its course, adding the Air National Guard (ANG) Reconnaissance Weapons School detachment, located at Gowen Field Idaho, training both USAF and ANG aircrews in the RF-4C. The ANG RF-4C's were equipped with the AIM-9M air-to-air missile and crews completed the final phase of training at Nellis AFB, NV in the combined FWIC exercise. The RF-4C FWIC continued to train instructor aircrews until the retirement of the RF-4 in the mid 1990s.

02/14/2015
05/15/2012

http://www.f-4.nl/f4_9.html great bio on the McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II.

The RF-4C (Model 98DF) was the unarmed photographic reconnaissance version of the USAF's F-4C. The armament and radar of the fighter version was removed and replaced with equipment specialized for photographic reconnaissance. Perhaps the most readily-noticeable difference between the F-4C and ...

The McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II, a tandem, twin-engined (J79), all-weather, long-range supersonic tactical reconn...
04/24/2012

The McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II, a tandem, twin-engined (J79), all-weather, long-range supersonic tactical reconnaissance jet fighter. Top speed of Mach 2.23, an initial climb rate of over 41,000 ft/min, and a service cieling of 60,000+ ft.

FAC at the FWIC, Gowen Field, Bosie ID. After another week of flying, briefings, presentations, testing, more flying, a...
03/20/2012

FAC at the FWIC, Gowen Field, Bosie ID. After another week of flying, briefings, presentations, testing, more flying, and good debates on tactics, it is time for a cold beer.

Col (ret) Robert Athan, 155th Tactical Reconnasaince Group, Nebraska Air National Guard, Lincoln, NE. Graduate of the F...
12/06/2011

Col (ret) Robert Athan, 155th Tactical Reconnasaince Group, Nebraska Air National Guard, Lincoln, NE. Graduate of the FWIC at Boise, ID in December 1987 with Brad Norton. Commander was Col Jim Davies and FWIC instructors were Bill (B.C.) Crum, Chuck Lax, Sal, and Sherm. Good times and one hell of a course.

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