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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...

3 The F-35A Lightning II training syllabus encompasses several training components over eight months. As part of the program, student pilots must complete air-to-air combat training against aircraft simulating adversary air, commonly referred to as ADAIR or Red Air. Typically, enemy aircraft are simulated by F-35A instructor pilots alongside F-1 Mirages out of Tyndall Air Force Base. From May 3-14, visiting F-15C Eagles from Kingsley Field, Oregon, took on the role of “Red Ai...

13 A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots from the 190th Fighter Squadron and special warfare tactical air control party Airmen from the 124th Air Support Operations Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard made history when they dropped live 500-pound Mark 82, low-drag bombs from A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in the Orchard Combat Training Center, south of Boise, Idaho, May 18-19, 2021. “We have never dropped live ordinance at the OCTC in the history of the Idaho Air National Guard,” said Lt. Col. M...

Adm. Sam Paparo, a native of Morton, Pennsylvania graduated from Villanova University and was commissioned in 1987. He is the son of a former enlisted Marine and the grandson of a World War 2 enlisted Sailor. He has earned a Master of Arts in International Studies from Old Dominion University and a Master of Science in Systems Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College, the Air War College, the Naval War College and the Joint and Comb...

US F-35s, French Rafales fly joint exercises 19 May 2021 by Gareth Jennings Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and Dassault Rafale jets have begun flying joint exercises geared at enhancing fourth- and fifth-generation interoperability between the United States and France. US F-35A and French Rafale fighters flying their first joint exercises geared at enhancing fourth and fifth generation integration, combat readiness, and fighting capabilities. Exercise ‘Atlantic ...

TYNDALL AFB — Tyndall Air Force Base is hosting more than 2,000 personnel and more than 70 fighter jets from all over the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy for Checkered Flag training. Checkered Flag is one of the largest air-to-air combat simulation exercises the Department of Defense has to offer. Pilots get real-life training by shooting live missiles at targets. Checkered Flag started last week and will run through Friday. Tyndall hosts Checkered Flag twice a year, with the other one u...

Air Force report on 2020 Eglin F-22 crash not yet ready for release EGLIN AFB — Almost a year after an F-22 Raptor fighter jet crashed on the bases range, an Air Force Accident Investigation Board report still is not ready for public release. The F-22 Raptor, part of the 325th Fighter Wing, was on a routine training mission with the 33rd Fighter Wing when it crashed about 9:15 a.m. May 15, 2020, in a closed area of the Eglin Air Force Base reservation about 12 miles northeast of the main sect...

Sounds of freedom back at Tyndall with air-to-air combat training near Panama City © CONTRIBUTED Fighter jet taking off to conduct the Checkered Flag exercise TYNDALL AFB — Tyndall Air Force Base is hosting more than 2,000 personnel and more than 70 fighter jets from all over the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy for Checkered Flag training. Checkered Flag is one of the largest air-to-air combat simulation exercises the Department of Defense has to offer. Pilots get real-life training by s...

When It Comes to War Games, the F-35 Just Keeps Winning Simulations give us a sense of how powerful and high-tech the stealth fighter is, and right now the verdict is that it is tough to beat. Heres What You Need to Know: The Red Flag exercise, and annual live combat-like training event, drew from an unprecedented amount of advanced threat scenarios, representing "near-peer" threats. Red Flag aggressors, according to the Air Force report, included “advanced integrated air-defense systems, an...

Tyndall AFB, while also supporting two additional locations, like the forward operating base constructed at NOLF Choctaw. The planning for NOLF Choctaw aligned capabilities from different units under a single commander to deliver Agile Combat Employment using the Air Base Squadron concept of operations. “The Air Force, and specifically ACC, needs to refine and clearly articulate expectations for the role of a lead wing as an instrument of air power in support of strategic national objectives,...