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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- F-16s from the Pakistan Air Force fly near a KC-135 after refueling at Red Flag July 20, 2010.Approximately 100 Pakistan air force F-16B pilots and support personnel are participating in Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. This is the PAF’s first time participating in this event. Red Flag-Nellis is a realistic combat training exercise held four times annually involving the armed forces of the U.S. and its allies. It provides a peacetime “battlefield” within which combat forces can train. Inside that battlefield, aircrews train to fight, survive and win together. The exercise is conducted on the 15,000-square-mile Nevada Test and Training Range, north of Las Vegas, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo/ A1C Daniel Phelps)
While we were in the Hefei area, we scored a ride in a most unusual car, the Mao era Red Flag.
Stalin presented Mao with five Russian-built limousines in the early 1950s and Mao liked them so much he decided China should build its own. Virtually hand made, the cars sported a red pennant-shaped hood ornament and on the front, a sign with the Chinese characters hongqi, meaning red flag, that was handwritten by Mao himself. Beginning in the 1960s, the Redflag car was designated for the use of Chinese officials with ranks higher than vice-minister and visiting foreign heads of state who were driven to meet the Chairman in these cars.
An Army Paratrooper from the 725th Brigade Support Battalion runs to the troop door of a C-130 Hercules from the 36th Airlift Squadron before parachuting over the drop zone during a training sortie Aug. 1, 2014, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. For several paratroopers, this was the first jump to initiate their training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chad C. Strohmeyer/Released)
A 1st Fighter Wing F-22 Raptor pilot conducts a walk-around his aircraft before boarding during Red Flag 17-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan 26, 2017. The Raptors out of Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., are working alongside the F-35A Lightning II to suppress enemy targets and provide targeting and cover for fourth-generation aircraft. (U.S Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Natasha Stannard)
I'll stop here (for the time being). :o)
Red Flag 09-3 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
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Pilots with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 exit F-35B Lightning II’s after conducting training during exercise Red Flag 16-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, July 20, 2016. This is the first time that the fifth generation fighter has participated in the multiservice air-to-air combat training exercise.
Panavia Tornado F.3
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Red Flag 09-3 (Nellis AFB: Las Vegas, Nevada)
No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron RAF
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An F-22 "Raptor", assigned to the 95th Fighter Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., disconnects from the boom of a KC-135 "Stratotanker" after receiving fuel to continue on its training sortie during exercise Red Flag 16-1 Feb. 4, 2016.