Air Combat Exercises

Latest Air Combat Exercises Stories

NATO Will Hold Its Biggest Air Exercise In History This Summer

By Emma Helfrich / Updated Apr 13, 2023

Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50

By Jamie Hunter / Updated Jan 26, 2023

Biggest U.S.-Israel War Games Ever Are Underway

By Emma Helfrich / Updated Jan 25, 2023

Aircraft From Area 51 Are Flying In Latest Air Force Red Flag Exercise

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 21, 2022

28-Drone Swarm Just Led The Way For A Simulated Air Assault Mission

By Dan Parsons / Updated May 24, 2022

Air Force’s Black Flag Test Exercise Goes International With Focus On China

By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 20, 2022

Adversary Air Contract For Nellis Air Force Base Won’t Be Renewed

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 7, 2022

Marine F-35s Fight F-117 Aggressors, Train For Very Long-Range Combat In Huge West Coast Exercise

By James Deboer / Updated Mar 18, 2022

U.S. Air Force Trains With Japan’s US-2 Flying Boat As It Looks Forward To Its Own Amphibious Plane

By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 23, 2022

KC-46 Tanker Shows It Can Rapidly Unload Tons Of Fuel To Thirsty Fighters At Austere Airstrips

By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 16, 2022

Air Force Releases List Of What’s In Its Famous ‘Petting Zoo’ Threat Training Facility

By Brett Tingley / Updated Jan 4, 2022

Watch This C-130 Run For Its Life At Low Level From A Mock Enemy Missile Crew

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 31, 2021

F-117 Aggressors Photographed Low Over The Nevada Desert During Red Flag War Games

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 21, 2021

War Games In California And Florida Linked To Test Massive “Kill Web”

By Jamie Hunter / Updated Jul 10, 2021

Chinese Pilots Are Also Dueling With AI Opponents In Simulated Dogfights And Losing: Report

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 18, 2021

Legion Infrared Search And Track Pods Can Now Carry Their Own Datalinks For More Lethal Targeting

By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 8, 2021

How The Air Force Fires Live Missiles To Make Sure Pilots And Weapons Function In Actual Combat

By Jamie Hunter / Updated May 18, 2021

B-52 Simulated A Hypersonic Weapon Strike During Massive Alaskan War Games

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 6, 2021

Air Force Combines Wargames To Make The Mother Of All Airpower Testing Events

By Jamie Hunter / Updated Mar 11, 2021

F-35s And F-16s Set To Operate From Austere Jungle Airfield During Major Exercise On Guam

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 27, 2021

Black Flag Rises: New “Super Bowl Of Test Exercises” Pushes USAF’s Top Weapons To Their Limit

By Jamie Hunter / Updated Jan 13, 2021

F-117 Nighthawks Now Appear To Be Flying As Adversaries In Red Flag Aerial War Games

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020

Red Flag Is Back In Business As Two Of The Big Air Combat Exercises Kick Off Simultaneously

By Jamie Hunter / Updated Aug 4, 2020

Air Force Aggressor Squadron Has A Surprising Secondary Mission

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020

Check Out All The Airpower On Guam For Exercise Cope North In This Exclusive Satellite Image

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 17, 2020

This Is What Nellis Air Force Base’s Ongoing Red Flag Exercise Looks Like From Space

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 3, 2020

Here’s What Really Happened When U.S. Marines Brought F-35Bs to Red Flag

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 29, 2019

Jaded Thunder Exercise Trains Elite Troops to Call in Almost Any Sort of Fire Support

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

Blue Flag Exercise Has Dozens of Foreign Fighter Jets Over Israel Training For War

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

NATO Members Train to Nuke a “Fictional” Enemy After Major Russian Drills

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

Watch This Russian KA-52 Attack Chopper Accidentally Fire Rockets at Exercise Observers

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

F-22s Team Up With Combat Rescue Personnel to Practice for Quick Deployments

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

USAF’s Reboot Of Its Huge International Air Mobility Exercise Has Begun

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

F-15C Eagle’s New Infrared Search And Track Pod Spotted At Huge Exercise In Alaska

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 18, 2019

Marines Want Contractor-Flown Russian Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Gunships At More Exercises

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 30, 2018

USAF Is Jamming GPS In The Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 26, 2018

How Sly RAF Tornado Crews Repeatedly Killed U.S. Navy F-14s And F/A-18s In Training

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 9, 2017

Pentagon Flight Testers Now Have Their Own Mock Air War Called “Orange Flag”

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2017

Alaskan Aggressor F-16 Emerges In Awesome New Forest Green “Splinter” Camouflage

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 9, 2017

One Of North Korea’s Most Dangerous Weapons Is The Ancient An-2 Biplane

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 27, 2017

Aggressor F-16C Appears At Red Flag Alaska In SR-71 Blackbird Like Paint Scheme

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 2, 2017

Check Out These Sizzling Photos From Two Of Europe’s Premier Air Combat Drills

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 12, 2017

U-2 Flies in Alaska Exercise for First Time, But Not as a Spy Plane

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 22, 2017

Let’s Talk About Those F-35 Kill Ratio Reports From Red Flag

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 8, 2017