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I spent three days sitting off the north end of Nellis Air Force Base shooting photos of the participants in the Red Flag 00-02 exercise. The Royal Air Force and the Turkish Air Force were there.
Visit the web site of Nellis Air Force Base.
Visit the Red Flag
web site.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 40D Fighting Falcon
88-535 of the 31st Fighter Wing based at Aviano Air Base in Italy
carries tail code AV. It is equipped with Low Altitude Targeting
and Infra-Red for Night (LANTIRN) pods on the engine inlet and is
carrying free-fall gravity bombs for ground-pounding.
Visit the web site of the 31st Fighter Wing.
Visit the web site of Aviano Air Base.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon 86-0331
of the 27th Operations Group based at Cannon Air Force base in
New Mexico. It carries tail code CC and the colors of the
squadrons of the 27th Fighter Wing on its vertical stabilizer.
Visit the web site of the 27th Fighter Wing.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 30E Fighting Falcon
86-366 of the 27th Fighter Wing based at Cannon Air Force base in
New Mexico carries tail code CC.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 50D Fighting Falcon
91-361 of the 55th Fighter Squadron of the 20th Fighter Wing
based at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina carries tail code
SW. It is equipped with AGM-88 Hypersonic Anti-Radiation Missiles
(HARM) for suppression of adversary radar.
Visit the Air Force Fact Sheet about the AGM-88 HARM missile.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 50D Fighting Falcon
91-382 of the 55th Fighter Squadron of the 20th Fighter Wing
based at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina carries tail code
SW.
Visit the web site of Shaw Air Force Base.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon 87-0362
of the Air Warfare Center's 53rd Fighter Wing based at Eglin Air
Force Base in Florida carries tail code OT. A large portion of
the 53rd Wing's test activities involve testing software upgrades
used in combat aircraft and weapons, and radar systems in
operation-oriented missions. Test missions involve the use of
avionics in realistic scenarios in order to test systems and
tactics in combat-like situations. This F-16C is carrying AIM-120
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM).
Visit the web site of the 53rd Fighter Wing.
Visit the Air Force Fact Sheet about the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 50 Fighting Falcon
90-0803 of the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group of the 53rd Fighter
Wing based at Nellis Air Force Base carries tail code OT.
Visit the web site of the 53rd
Test and Evaluation Group.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon "Red
69" of the 414 CTS of the 57th Wing based at Nellis Air
Force Base carries tail code WA.
Visit the web site of the 57th Wing.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 42H Fighting Falcon
90-728 of the 57th Wing carries tail code WA.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 32C Fighting Falcon
86-220 "Red 20" of the 57th Wing based at Nellis Air
Force Base carries tail code WA.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 32H Fighting Falcon
87-307 "Red 07" of the 57th Wing based at Nellis Air
Force Base carries tail code WA.
Lockheed-Martin F-16D "Red 27"
Fighting Falcon of the 57th Wing based at Nellis Air Force Base
carries tail code WA.
Turkish Air Force Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block
40A Fighting Falcon.
Turkish Air Force Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block
40H Fighting Falcon 91-0006 carries a wolf's head on its vertical
stabilizer.
A pair of Turkish Air Force Lockheed-Martin
F-16C Block 40A Fighting Falcons fly overhead as a F-16C of the
Thunderbirds flies the approach to Runway 21 right.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon of the
Thunderbirds.
Visit the web site of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds.
Visit the Lockheed-Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon product page.
Visit the Air Force Lockheed-Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon fact sheet.
McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle 83-023 of the 1st Fighter Wing
"Spads" based at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia
carries tail code FF.
McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle of the 1st Fighter Wing based at
Langley Air Force Base in Virginia carries tail code FF.
Visit the web site of the 1st Fighter Wing.
McDonnell-Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle carries
conformal fuel tanks with built-in hardpoints.
McDonnell-Douglas F-15C-40 Eagles 85-118 and 85-115 of the 19th
Fighter Squadron of the 3rd Fighter Wing based at Elmendorf Air
Force Base in Alaska carry tail code AK. The call sign of the
19th is "Gamecocks"
Visit the web site of Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Press release about the visit of the 19th Fighter Squadron to Red Flag.
McDonnell-Douglas F-15D-31 Eagle 81-063 of the 53rd Fighter Wing
based at Nellis Air Force Base carries tail code OT. It is
suffering some kind of hydraulic failure and has deployed its
arrester hook to engage the restraint on Runway 21 left. It was
met by a large number of emergency vehicles with their red lights
flashing
McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle of the 57th Wing based at Nellis
Air Force Base carries tail code WA.
Visit the Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle fact sheet.
Link to Boeing's F-15 product page.
Go to the second page of pictures
from the Red Flag 00-02
exercise.
Robert Coram has written a biography of John
Boyd, titled BOYD: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of
War. John Boyd served as an instructor at the Fighter
Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base in the 1950s. He had a
standing bet that any pilot could put his fighter behind Boyd's
airplane, and Boyd would be behind the other pilot in less than
40 seconds or pay him $40. No pilot ever won that bet. Read my review of the book to see whether
you want to buy it from Amazon.com.
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