Red Flag 17-3 Report
The first of two summer Red Flag exercises was held at Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada desert from July 10th to 28th. This iteration of Flag (RF 17-3) is the one RF training event of the year...
Category: Exercises
Sentry Eagle 2017
Mantegani Photos – Robert, Steven, & Scott Mantegani Sentry Eagle 2017 – July 20-24, 2017 Sentry Eagle is a joint Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force, and Navy air-to-air combat training exercise hosted by the 173rd Fighter Wing at...
Tactical Weapon Meet at Florennes AB/Belgium 2017
The Tactical Weapon Meet was organized by the 1st Squadron of the Belgium Air Force. Nowadays, the 1st Squadron is part of the 2nd Wing and based at Florennes, in the Ardennes in the south of Belgium. The Squadron...
Austrian Air Force Eurofighters Train in Northern Germany
The central European country of Austria is quite small, at nearly 83,000 square kilometers (or 32,000 square miles and roughly the size of the state of South Carolina); the possibility to train with its’ Eurofighters is very limited. So the...
NORTHERN LIGHTNING 2017
You could easily miss its’ twenty three hundred acres, nine thousand foot runway and forty acres of ramp space when driving by on Interstate 90. We are referring to Volk Air National Guard Base located in west central Wisconsin,...
ATLANTIC TRIDENT 17 Sharpens the Cutting Edge
Photography by Howard German except where noted. Written by Ken Kula with Shirl Kula. Langley Air Force Base, Virginia was the site of a trilateral military aviation exercise featuring three long-time allies with cutting edge aircraft and systems. In...
Coalition Integration: Red Flag 17-2
Red Flag is America’s premier training exercise for today’s warfighters. Originally developed to improve our nation’s air to air kill ratio during Vietnam, it has grown into much more than strictly air to air tactics. Red Flag 17-2, which...
Frisian Flag April 2017, Leeuwarden AB/Netherlands and EART 2017
Article and photography by Peter Boschert The 2017 edition of Frisian Flag was conducted between March 27th to April 07 2017 at Leeuwarden AB in the North of the Netherlands. The participating refueling aircraft were stationed at the NATO...
DACT ’17 at Las Palmas – Gando
Air to Air fights where others go on holiday! DACT – Dissimilar Air Combat Training – is a yearly exercise of the Spanish Air Force, which took place in 2017 from 13th January to 27th January at Gando –...
RED FLAG 17-1 MEDIA DAY
As I board the bus to head over to the media briefing and interview panel, I can’t help but think about how incredibly fortunate I am to be able to be a part of Red Flag Media Day 17-1....
The Lightning Strikes At Red Flag 17-1
USAF F-35As were the highlight and most interesting participant of the Red Flag 17-1 exercise, which took place from 23 January to 10 February 2017. The F-35As came from the 34th FS of the 388th FW of the Hill Air...
Frisian Flag April 2016, Leeuwarden AB/Netherland and EART 2016
e 2016 edition of Frisian Flag was conducted between 11th to 22nd 2016 at Leeuwarden AB in the North of the Netherlands. The participating refueling aircraft were stationed at the NATO Base Eindhoven and belonged to the EARC. This...
