Zweikorps Basilikaricha Stossjägerschula



The Zweikorps Basilikaricha Stossjägerschula (ᚶᚹᛂᛁᚦᚬᛡᛈᛊ ᛔᚨᛊᛁᛚᛁᚦᚨᛡᛁᚭᚨ  ᛋᛏᚬᛊᛊᛃᚴᚷᛂᛡ) (transl. 'Two-Corps Imperial Strike Fighter School'), more popularly known as the Panther-Akademie, teaches fighter and strike tactics and air manuever techniques to selected pilots of the Zusian Himmelkorps and Marinakorps, who then return to their operating units as surrogate instructors. It began as the Marinakorps Lufttruppa Waffenschula, established on 3 March 1969 to improve the standards of aviation within the navy. The modern program was created following an agreement with the air force in 1975, during which the school acquired its current location at Seafort Flinthaven.

The Stossjägerschula first entered the popular consciousness after the blockbuster 1986 film , in which a rivalry between Starmer pilots and Yellow Squadron pilots plays out at a fictionalized version of the academy. The rivalry between those two units remains a fixture of life at the school, and popular perceptions thereof.

Course
The academy conducts three Stossjäger Ausbilder (StAu) (transl. 'Strike Fighter Instructor') classes every year. Each lasts nine weeks and includes nine Marinakorps and nine Himmelkorps aircraft, usually Komma Kintaalas or the s. Nicknamed the "Pantherkursus" (transl. 'Panther course'), the StAu classes are designed to train already-experienced navy and air force aircrews at the graduate level in all aspects of strike-fighter aircraft employment, including tactics, hardware, and techniques. The course includes eighty hours of lectures and twenty-five sorties that pit students against Panther instructors. Each year, a small number of aircrews do not meet the academy's standards and are dropped from the course.