Red Flag 18-2 Review
The second of three scheduled Red Flag exercises for fiscal year ’18, (RF 18-2) concluded on March 23, 2018. Red Flag is the United State’s premier air combat exercise and is coordinated at Nellis Air Force Base near Las...
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Red Flag 18-1- Fighting With Close Allies
All content by Peter Boschert, except where noted. Red Flag 18-1 took place at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada from 26th of January to the 16th of February 2018. Next to the more or less usual aviation units...
Winds of Change to Standard Red Flag Operations.
In late January, the first of three planned Red Flag exercises for fiscal year 2018 kicked off at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. All four branches of the United States Armed Forces, as well as those...
The U.S. Air Force is Seventy Years Old
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird The United States Air Force will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of its founding on September 18, 2017. Seventy years of aviation history is hard to imagine, there is no way we could portray all of the individual...
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...
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...
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....
Flying Gas Station of the USAF during Red Flag 13-1 and 13-2 (Blue Forces)
The famous Red Flag exercises includes refueling flights for training and support, usually with the KC-135 Stratotanker. A typical Red Flag mission includes three KC-135 aircraft, although often more aircraft are deployed to have airspares. One tanker is for the Red Forces...
Flying Gas Station of the USAF during Red Flag 12-3 (Red Forces)
Our tanker mission (Callsign “Gulf 17”) included the refuelling of four F-15C/D (Callsigns “Flanker 1 – 4” and six F-16C (Callsigns “Ivan 1 – 4”) of the 65th and 64th AGRS from Nellis AFB, Nevada. The mission was planned...
Aggressor Squadron Nellis AFB (64th and 65th AGRS)
The two Aggressor Squadrons belong to the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base. The 64th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS) was activated at Nellis in 1972. At that time, the Squadron was equipped with the T-38A Talon and in April...
2016’s Summer of Flags
From July 11-29, and from August 15-26, 2016, the United States Air Force’s 414th Combat Training Squadron hosted a pair of ‘Red Flag’ exercises at Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. These exercises are advanced aerial...
European Air Forces at Red Flag
The well-known Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas in Nevada, are not only used by their sponsor, the United States Air Force (USAF), but by many armed forces. With multinational operations more common in...
