Tagged: Eurofighter

air force / europe / Exercises / fighters / military

July 28, 2017

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...

air force / Base Visits / europe / Exercises / fighters

May 27, 2017

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...

air force / europe / military

October 13, 2015

Tankerflight with German Airbus A.310MRTT at Joint Warrior 2015

The German Air Force bought four Airbus A.310-304 aircraft between 1996 and 1999 for the refueling of their fighters (Tornado and Eurofighter). They were initially converted into Multi-Role-Transport (MRT) aircraft and later received additional removable equipment to refuel aircraft at Dresden,...

air force / fighters / military

October 10, 2015

TUTOR ET ULTOR – “Protector and Defender” Holloman AFB

The base was founded as Alamogordo Army Air Field on 10th of June 1942 as a training field for much needed pilots in the USAAF. On 13th January 1948, the base was renamed to honor Colonel George V. Holloman, a...

Exercises / fighters / military

August 17, 2014

Operation Red Flag/Nellis AFB 1978-today

This exercise is taking place at Nellis Air Force Base (at the northwestern edge of Las Vegas) 3-4 times a year since 1975. Red Flag is organized by the United States Air Force Warfare Center (USAFWC), while it is...

Airshow / assignments / europe

February 25, 2014

Bahrain International Air Show

With an ever smaller world the time that you could use a long winter to sort out your photos of the previous year is well behind us. Nowadays there is an air show in reach every month of the...

air force / featured / fighters / military / photocalls

June 22, 2012

Bigger, Bolder: Red Flag – Alaska

The name Red Flag has been synonymous with large scale flying exercises since the early 1970s. Originally developed at Nevada’s Nellis AFB to help pilots survive their first ten missions in Vietnam, Red Flag has become an important test...