Our good friend Frank Crebas of captured these amazing images of a 64th Aggressor Squadron F-16C refueling high over the while an ominous sandstorm rages below. The shots were taken at the height .

We know that the U.S. military loves to train in as accurate battlefield conditions as possible, but this is a whole other level. Sand storms in the middle east . Most famously, a The event shutdown almost all combat operations and turned the battlefield into a eerie post-apocalyptic like landscape.

This crazy Heads Up Display camera video, supposedly shot in the Persian Gulf in 2003, shows a…

Oddly enough, one of most celebrated F-16 missions of all time, flown by F-16 pilot extraordinaire , took place during this crazy atmospheric event.

20 years, over 600 combat hours, 151 combat missions, 21 hard kills on surface-to-air missile…

If anything else, the mission showed that even under the worst flying conditions imaginable, the F-16 remains an incredibly deadly weapon system when flown by the right hands. For more reading, I Dan Hampton’s memoir, . The recounting of this medal-earning mission alone is worth the price of admission.

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