Military Excercises Archivi - Aviation Report

US Eisenhower and Truman aircraft carriers

USA Ike and Truman aircraft carriers conduct dual carrier and joint air wing operations with B-52 in the Arabian Sea

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) began dual carrier strike group and joint air wing operations with a B-52 Bomber from U.S. Air Forces Central Command in the Arabian Sea March ... Read More...

Merlin Mk2 from Royal Navy 814 NAS “Flying Tiger” get claws into NATO Submarine Exercise Dynamic Manta 2020

The Flying Tigers of 814 Naval Air Squadron are once again Britain’s representatives at NATO’s annual test of anti-submarine forces staged in the Ionian Sea. Nine nations – Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Spai... Read More...

Nato’s anti-submarine warfare exercise Dynamic Manta 2020 is underway in Italy

NATO exercise Dynamic Manta (DYMA20) began today Feb. 24, off the coast of Sicily. Ships, submarines, aircraft and personnel from 9 Allied nations are converging in the Central Mediterranean Sea for advan... Read More...

After Sentry Aloha 20-1 USAF 18th Aggressor Squadron replicates threats during exercise Cope North 2020

Twelve Soviet-style blue, black and forest flanker-themed F-16 Fighting Falcons took flight from a frigid 20-below-zero airfield in the Alaskan frontier to traverse the Pacific to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam,... Read More...

18th Aggressor Squadron leaves Hawaii for Guam to partecipate at exercise Cope North 2020

The 18th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS) are leaving Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, after participating in Sentry Aloha 20-1 Jan. 8-22, 2020. The 18th AGRS sent a mobile training team (MTT) to the island to ... Read More...

Exercise Sentry Aloha 20-1 comes to an end

More than 1000 personnel from the U.S. Air Force’s active, national guard and reserve components participated in the decade’s first Sentry Aloha exercise Jan. 8-22, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The air-to... Read More...

USAF F-16 aggressors from 18th AGRS fly south for mobile training

From snow to palms no big deal for US Airmen

The 18th Aggressor Squadron departed Eielson this week to participate in exercise Sentry Aloha 20-1, which is scheduled to take place Jan. 8-22 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawai, hosted by Hawaii Air Nat... Read More...

Amphibious exercise for the Egyptian Naval Forces

For the first time attack helicopters AH-64D and KA-52 of Egyptian Air Force were spotted together aboard the L1010 Gamal Abdel Nasser ship

The Egyptian Naval Forces conducted a massive amphibious operation in the Mediterranean Sea on 11 December 2019, with the following participants: ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser (L1010), a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ... Read More...

Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon in Iceland

Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon to patrol Icelandic skies for NATO

RAF Typhoons FGR4 have arrived in Iceland where they will spend the next month protecting the airspace as the UK’s contribution to NATO’s Icelandic Air Policing Mission. The jet fighters from 1(Fighter) Squadro... Read More...

NATO allied nations complete exercise Dynamic Mariner 2019

Eighteen Allied nations participated in the NATO Maritime Command’s exercise Dynamic Mariner 2019 off the coast of Spain Oct. 8-18. The exercise brought together 32 surface ships, two submarines and 18 aircraft... Read More...

Exercise Combat Archer 2019: the first operational testing of the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile

F-15C Eagle, F-15E Strike Eagle and F-22 Raptor fighter jets and pilots assigned to the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron and 433rd Weapons School took to the skies to participate in Combat Archer 19-12, Sept.... Read More...

Italy first to deploy F-35 fighter aircraft to NATO mission in Iceland

For the first time modern 5th generation fighter aircraft will execute NATO’s peacetime Air Policing mission safeguarding Icelandic airspace for three weeks in October. Italy will be the first Ally to deploy si... Read More...

UK international exercise Cobra Warrior come to an end

This week saw the conclusion of Exercise Cobra Warrior at RAF Waddington. A multi-national tactical training event, Exercise Cobra Warrior saw affiliated forces aiming to develop the tactical skills of their ai... Read More...

UK F-35B Lightning jets train with USAF B-2A stealth bombers

A Bomber Task Force deployment of B-2A Spirit stealth bomber aircraft, Airmen and support equipment from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, have arrived in the U.S. European Command area of... Read More...

Exercise Cobra Warrior 2019 Eurofighter Luftwaffe

Exercise Cobra Warrior starts in UK

Aircraft from the German, Italian and Israeli Air Forces have arrived at RAF Waddington to participate in Exercise Cobra Warrior. They will join aircraft from the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force in... Read More...

Payerne air base: exercise Epervier 2019

From August 23rd to 30th, 2019, six Mirage 2000-5F from the fighter squadron 1/2 "Cigognes" based in Luxeuil (BA 116) in the department of Haute Saône (North East of France), participate to the exercise Epervie... Read More...

USMC F-35B completes simulated Combat Air Patrol with live AIM-9X missile

First operational F-35B live-fire of the AIM-9X missile in the Indo-Pacific region

Marine fighter pilots with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, launched from the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp , deployed in the Pacific Ocean, to rehearse Combat Air Patrol... Read More...

Operation Rapid Forge 2019 concluded July 25 at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany

The 10-day operation helped ensure U.S. forces’ ability to fulfill the European Deterrence Initiative, a policy to assure and defend NATO allies, while promoting deterrence in an increasingly complex security e... Read More...

Exercise Anatolian Eagle 2019

The challenge between Turkey and Greece for the supremacy over the Aegean Sea passes even trought the aim to hold the most important exercise in the southern border of NATO alleance. The Anatolian Eagle exer... Read More...

British F-35Bs complete first operational missions over Syria and Iraq

UK becomes the third country to send F-35s Joint Strike Fighter into combat

The UK Ministry of Defense has announced and confirmed that its newest F-35B fighter jets have flown alongside Typhoon aircraft on operational flights over the skies of Syria and Iraq, as part of the ongoing fi... Read More...