🇧🇪 FA-102 Belgian Air Component General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon (Viper) 🇧🇪

Exercise Cobra Warrior After my afternoon visit on Tuesday 14th March, where I just missed photographing the visiting fighters arriving back at base, I made up for it on the following Friday 17th - managing to record the departure home of all six of the Belgian Air Component F-16s, four of the Finnish Air Force F-18s and a pair of the 'exotic' Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s 😎 :)

 

In this view we see FA-102 - the last in line of the four Belgian Air Component F-16s that departed Waddington around 09.30 - arrived at the holding position with the fourth aircraft FA-102 behind.

 

Exercise Cobra Warrior is a biannual exercise run by the Royal Air Force and is designed to exercise participants in high intensity large force tactical training. This year's exercise is taking place from the 6th to the 24th of March, controlled by directing staff at RAF Waddington. More info on Exercise Cobra Warrior here: www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/international-participants-f...

 

Cobra Warrior Participants

 

Based at Waddington

 

🇧🇪Belgian Air Force (Force Aérienne Belge)🇧🇪

General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon (Viper) x6

 

FA-77

FA-102

FA-116 (349 sqd special tail)

FA-127

FA-134

FA-136 (display special)

 

🇫🇮 Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) 🇫🇮

McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornet x6

 

HN-406

HN-411 (small bull on nose)

HN-422

HN-424 (black lynx on nose)

HN-438

HN-448

 

🇮🇳 Indian Air Force 🇮🇳

Dassault Mirage 2000 x5

 

KF112 - 2000I

KF118 - 2000I

KT208 - 2000TI

KT211 - 2000TI

KT213 - 2000TI

 

Based at Coningsby

 

🈂 Royal Saudi Air Force 🈂

EF2000 Eurofighter Typhoon x6

 

1020 - T3

316 - FGR4

8019 - FGR4

1019 - FGR4

1022 - FGR4 (Green Canard)

8018 - FGR4

 

More info here: www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=455&t=...

 

Low-res shot taken with an iPhone 6s iPhone photography - apologies for the poor quality of some of these phone photos - sometimes they're nice and sharp - sometimes they're all pixelated and not up to my usual standard. The videos are better :)

 

You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/

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