Red Flag 16-1 underway at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas.
With RF16-1 underway, cool images and footage showing Red Flag participants taking off and recovering to Nellis have started to pop up.
Here’s an interesting one, filmed by Dave Stein, showing a VAQ-138 EA-18G Growler on base turn for final: take a look at the heat distortion and wingtip vortices highlighted by the desert mountains in the background.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
A P-8A Poseidon from Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 captures surveillance footage of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) conducting land reclamation operations in the South China Sea. On May 20, a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol […]
Late Billionaire Paul Allen’s Expedition Ship Makes Remarkable Discovery. In a sensational story that seems torn from a Clive Cussler fiction novel, the private research vessel funded by late billionaire Paul Allen has located the […]
An amazing shot from a Super Hornet fighter pilot This photo was taken by an F/A-18E Super Hornet pilot with the U.S. Navy’s Strike-Fighter Squadron 27 (VFA-27) “Royal Maces” during a night gun strafe practice. […]
1 Comment
In the ongoing discussion about how effective that S-400 deployed in Syria is, I can see that this is that kind of “un-cool” plane that no one considers while it makes the difference in the battle-space.
In the ongoing discussion about how effective that S-400 deployed in Syria is, I can see that this is that kind of “un-cool” plane that no one considers while it makes the difference in the battle-space.