Amazing Photo Shows American F-35s Meet French Rafales Mid-Air, Not a Rendering 24 May 2021, 9:42 UTC · by A quick, superficial look at the photo we have here, and one might be duped into believing this is either a rendering of some kind or some still taken from an upcoming video game or something. Only it’s neither, but a real photo, taken in our real world, showing real fighter jets. 1 photo What you’re looking at are four airplanes, two American and two French, conducting a joint exercise over France. The American planes are F-35A Lightning IIs from the Hill Air Force Base in Utah, while the French ones are Dassault Rafales deployed with the Saint-Dizier-Robinson Air Base.