Italian Eurofighter Typhoons Make Red Flag Debut | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-10.28.24

Airborne-NextGen-10.29.24

Airborne-Unlimited-10.30.24

Airborne-Unlimited-10.24.24

Airborne-Unlimited-10.25.24

Mon, Mar 14, 2016

Italian Eurofighter Typhoons Make Red Flag Debut

First Appearance At Exercises Held At Nellis AFB

Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons have this week made their first appearance at one of the world’s best-known military exercises.

Exercise Red Flag, at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air, space and cyber forces of the United States and its allies.
 
Eight Italian Eurofighter Typhoons, from the 4th, 36th and 37th  Fighter Wings in Grosseto, made their inaugural appearance at the Base, led by Detachment Commander Marco Bertoli. They are taking part in a series of exercises along with 76 other aircraft exploring different combat scenarios, utilising a military training area with more than 15,000 square miles of airspace.
 
The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) is the U.S. Air Force’s premier military training area and the Exercise will provide 1,900 possible targets, realistic threat systems, and an opposing enemy force that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world. Nellis  AFB  and  the  NTTR  are  the  home  of  a  simulated battlefield,  providing  combat  air  forces  with  the  ability  to  train  to  fight  together  in  a peacetime environment, and to survive and win together.
 
The responsibility for executing Red Flag lies with the 414th  Combat Training Squadron. Aircraft depart Nellis twice a day and may remain in the  air  for  up  to  five  hours.
 
The Italian Eurofighter deployment to Red Flag is just one of a series of deployments all around the world for the Eurofighter Typhoon community, which have involved the multi-role swing role combat aircraft recently.

Others include:

  • Deployment of six Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons to Cyprus on counter Daesh operations
  • Eurofighter Typhoons from all four core nations, the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain for the Baltic Air Policing mission
  • Deployment of RAF Eurofighter Typhoons on multi-aircraft interoperability exercise in the United Arab Emirates
  • Deployment of eight German Eurofighter Typhoons to Alaska on a previous Red Flag exercise

In total more than 470 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft have now been delivered and the total fleet of aircraft across an active customer-base of six international operators has accumulated more than 330,000 flying hours with unprecedented levels of reliability.

(Source: Eurofighter news release. Image from file)

FMI: www.eurofighter.com

 


Advertisement

More News

Senator Pushes FAA to Accelerate Rocket Launch Licensing

States That Current Process is Damaging National Aerospace Development US Senator Jerry Morgan is pushing the FAA to speed up the process for rocket launch licensing. He argues tha>[...]

Classic Aero-TV: RJ Gritter - Part of Aviation’s Bright New Future

From 2015 (YouTube Edition): Model Aviator Aims For Full-Scale Career While at the 2015 Indoor Electric RC Festival, referred to as eFest, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell>[...]

Aero-FAQ: Dave Juwel's Aviation Marketing Stories -- ITBOA BNITBOB

Dave Juwel's Aviation Marketing Stories ITBOA BNITBOB ... what does that mean? It's not gibberish, it's a lengthy acronym for "In The Business Of Aviation ... But Not In The Busine>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.27.24)

Aero Linx: Cardinal Flyers Online The Cardinal Flyers Online Web site was created and is maintained by me, Keith Peterson. My wife Debbie and I have owned a 1976 RG since 1985. Wit>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.27.24): Clearance Void If Not Off By (Time)

Clearance Void If Not Off By (Time) Used by ATC to advise an aircraft that the departure release is automatically canceled if takeoff is not made prior to a specified time. The exp>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC