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The 606th Air Control Squadron successfully used TORCC during the May 13-21 Astral Knight 21 exercise to relay integrated air and missile defense and C2 information to to pilots, "including directions for missions and threat awareness," according to the 31st Air Wing. By   Theresa Hitchens on May 26, 2021 at 5:49 PM NATO Commanders attending the Command and Control Commanders Conference April 20, 2021 listen to a briefing about exercise Astral Knight 21 in Chania, Crete. WASHINGTON: The Air...

By Staff Sgt. Valerie Halbert, 31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs / Published May 21, 2021 Senior Airman Neil Farbotnik, 555th Aircraft Maintenance Unit F-16 Fighting Falcon crew chief, inspects an F-16 that flew in Astral Knight 2021 (AK21) at Aviano Air Base, Italy, May 18, 2021. Eight F-16s assigned to the 555th Fighter Squadron are participating in AK21, which is a joint, multinational exercise designed to test integrated air and missile defense capabilities. The participatin...

12 AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy – In support of Astral Knight 2021 (AK21), a joint multinational exercise involving six different countries and approximately 1,900 combined joint forces, two 606th Air Control Squadron (ACS) teams are operating out of forward-deployed locations in Slovenia and Croatia. At Aviano, the 606th ACS is on active standby to provide backup air control for the forward-deployed locations. “Communication during any exercise is important, starting with the ini...