Military Excercises Archivi - Aviation Report

Portuguese Air Force F-16s train with Polish Air Force Mig-29s during NATO Assurance Measures 2020 exercise

The Portuguese Air Force deployed approx. 70 military personnel and four of its F-16M fighter jets on 4th September to Malbork Air Base, Poland. This operational training detachment takes place under the um... Read More...

Hill AFB’s F-35A Lightning IIs to conduct night flying operations during combat exercise

Communities surrounding Hill Air Force Base will notice flying operations late into the evening Sept. 14-17, 2020 as the base’s fighter wings conduct a local combat exercise. The active duty 388th Fighter Wi... Read More...

US, UK and Holland in Exercise Point Black 2020-4 a large force exercise over North Sea

Airmen and F-15s from the 48th Fighter Wing participated in Exercise Point Blank 20-4, Sep. 10, with other U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa units, as well as the Royal Air Force, Royal Netherland... Read More...

Czech Republic to host international JTAC – Joint Tactical Attack Controller training during international live-fly and live-firing exercise Ample Strike 2020

The international live-fly and live-firing exercise Ample Strike 2020 will take place in the Czech Republic from August 31 to September 19, 2020 offering participating Joint Tactical Attack Controllers (JTACs) ... Read More...

Luke F-35s from 62nd and 308th Fighter Squadrons trains in Gunfighter Flag exercise

The 62nd and 308th Fighter Squadrons participated in the Gunfighter Flag Large Force Exercise, Aug. 17-21 at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The five-day exercise deployed U.S. and foreign partners’ fighte... Read More...

USAF B-52H and F16 royal norwegian air force train together

Stunning images of Norwegian F-16 fighter jets exercise together with US B-52H strategic bombers

As part of a large American exercise in Europe, six US Air Force nuclear-capable strategic bombers are training along with Norwegian fighters. Both Norwegian F-16AM Fightning Falcons and F-35 Joint Strike Fight... Read More...

USAF 25th Fighter Squadron A-10 Warthogs fly on Guam

U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs assigned to the 25th Fighter Squadron (FS), assigned to the 51st Fighter Wing, Osan Air Base, South Korea, are honing their flight skills while at the Farallon de Medinilla R... Read More...

US Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses return to Europe for ally and partner training

Six U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft from the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, arrived Aug. 22, 2020, at RAF Fairford, England for a long planned training mission where the a... Read More...

Finland: exercise Baana 20 to bring F/A-18s to a highway strip in Lapland

Lapland Air Command will conduct the Baana 20 road base exercise at the Hosio highway strip in Ranua, Lapland from 7 to 11 September 2020. The regional road no. 924 will be closed during the exercise. Readines... Read More...

Royal Air Force Typhoons join key German Air Force exercise

Typhoons fighters from RAF Coningsby have this week taken part in a major German Air Force exercise over the southern North Sea. In a sign of the growing relationship between two key European NATO Allies, th... Read More...

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...