The Brazilian Air Force organized the international exercise Cruzex 2024 involving 16 countries and more than 50 aircraft, held at the Natal air base, in the north-east of Brazil, from 3 to 15 November 2024. In addition to the entire…
Between April 8th and April 18th, exercise INIOCHOS 2024 was carried out in the clear blue Hellenic sky. Also, this year again, three new members were welcomed to the continually expanding international INIOCHOS family: Montenegro, Qatar and Romania. The number…
Two US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing from Aviano Air Base, Italy, conducted bilateral air-to-ground training with joint terminal attack controllers from U.S. Special Operations Command Europe and Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina…
U.S. European Command participated in NATO’s annual Cyber Coalition 2023 exercise, which hosted 35 participant countries, the largest number to date, from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1. Cyber Coalition 2023 expanded on lessons learned from previous exercises, emphasizing coordination and…
Iniochos in Greek means Charioteer, and it is the most important exercise for Polemiki Aeroporia (Hellenic Air Force). The first edition of the exercise took place in 1988, as a small-scale exercise involving only Hellenic Air Force, and the aircraft…
Between 28th of March and 7th of April, the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) organised the seventh edition of the annual international INVITEX-exercise INIOCHOS 2022. All participants, except for certain HAF-squadrons, were operating from Andravida AB, home of the last Phantom II…
A Turkey more far away from NATO is the impression that emerges after our visit to the Anatolian Eagle exercise 2021. No NATO aircraft was partecipating in the exercise, except the obeservers. Estabilished in 2001, the Anatolian eagle viewed in…
After the cancelation last year due to COVID-19 and despite the ongoing epidemy, the Hellenic Air Force organised successfully this year the 6th international edition of exercise INIOCHOS. The 2021 edition saw again an increase in participating countries, number of…
Exercise Red Flag 21-2 underway at Nellis AFB, one of the U.S. Air Force’s largest combat training exercises. The 57th Wing’s 414th Combat Training Squadron (CTS) conducts Red Flag exercises to provide mission commanders, maintenance personnel, ground controllers, and air,…
British, French and American paratroopers have given a powerful demonstration of how they can go side-by-side into battle by air. Some 20 helicopters carried the 1,300-strong 2 PARA Battlegroup into action on Exercise Wessex Storm. Mounting at Keevil airfield on Salisbury…
The F-35B Lightning jets have stepped up to the next level of training after the pilots completed their carrier qualification in both day and night time conditions. 617 Squadron, ‘The Dambusters’, and the US Marine Corps’ VMFA-211 jets, spent three…
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, the Typhoons, from XI (Fighter) Squadron, together…
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) of the French Mistral class, and its combat team…
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 exercise was born on 2001 to…
The exercise scenario for the final week of COPE North 2019 evolved from a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation to combat air operations after an aggressive nation downed a friendly aircraft. This brought about a combined effort from three…
Also this year we were on board the naval units and on the ASW aircraft to follow the annual exercise of the forces of the "Atlantic Alliance" where the participants will refine their skills and test the tactics against the…
The 493rd Fighter Squadron Grim Reapers assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England recently completed exercise One Sky over the sovereign skies of Poland Sept. 18 – 20. The bilateral U.S., Poland training event focused…
The Baana 2018 exercise led Finnish military fighters to train on an highway stretch of the Northern European nation. The Satakunta Air Command organized this exercise from 14 to 20 September 2018. A temporary air base was set up on…
Between 18th and 29th of June, the clear blue skies over the Czech Republic made acquaintance with some lethal birds, that are rarely seen in Europe. The F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 182nd FS (149th FW) of the Texas Air…
Iniohos in Greek means Charioteer, and it is the most important exercise for Polemiki Aeroporia (Hellenic Air Force). The first edition of the exercise took place in 1988, as a small-scale exercise involving only Hellenic Air Force, and the aircraft…