Tagged: 493rd Fighter Squadron

air force / Exercises / fighters / military

February 19, 2015

Red Flag 15-1 marks ‘Forty Years of Flag’

Forty years ago the United States Air Force needed to improve their success rate in aerial combat over Vietnam, where it had fallen from 10:1 during the Korean conflict, to lower than 1:1 at times, during the decade long Vietnam...

air force / Exercises / fighters / military

February 3, 2015

493rd Fighter Squadron at Red Flag 15-1

The 493rd Fighter Squadron, known as the “Grim Reapers” and based at RAF Lakenheath in England, deployed 12 F-15’s (11 C’s and 1 D) to Nellis AFB to participate in Red Flag 15-1. The exercise runs from January...

air force / europe / fighters

September 17, 2014

Peter Boschert at the 493rd Grim Reapers in Lakenheath

RAF Lakenheath, 493rd FS GRIM REAPERS, the last fighters of United States Air Force Europe The 493rd Fighter Squadron “Grim Reapers“ of the 48th Fighter Wing, the “Liberty Wing“ looks back to a long and proud history. The squadron...