Air Force F-16 assigned to the 64th Aggressor Squadron receives air-to-air refueling from a KC-135R Stratotanker during the Red Flag exercise over Nevada on March 23, 2023. “We are training to generalized Russian-based threat a lot of the Russian-based threats are in these other nations in the area of responsibility,” Hutchinson said.Ī U.S.

learn “how other countries develop tactics, techniques procedures, and we can learn from them as they learn from us.” The F-35s, he added, specifically participated in drills involving the suppression of air defenses and trained to neutralize simulated threats. The IDF noted that the U.S.-led exercise strengthens “operational cooperation between the two militaries as key partners committed to maintaining security in the Middle East.”įor his part, Hutchinson said these events help the U.S. There were “a wide-range of training drills, including long-range aerial scenarios, achieving aerial superiority in the region, joint aerial strikes, area defense, interception of enemy aircraft, low-altitude flights and flights in areas abundant with anti-aircraft equipment,” according to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces.

Air Force)Įxercise participants confronted simulated air defenses as well as static and mobile targets. An Israeli F-35I Adir taxis out for a drill during Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on March, 15 2023.

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