RED FLAG 15/2
Red Flag 15/2 was held at Nellis Air Force Base between 2nd and 13th March 2015
RAPCON were privileged to be invited to the Media Day held on 3rd of March and are indebted to our hosts 99ABW Public Affairs Office and the excellent access they gave us to the runways.
As usual, the Exercise was conducted on the vast instrumented Combat Ranges north of Nellis and was organised by the 414th Combat Training Squadron, Nellis AFB. It followed the usual pattern of two airforces, The Blue Airforce Package with AWACS, Tankers, Bombers, SEAD Fighters and defending Fighters pitched against the Aggressor Squadrons of the Red Airforce. This was billed as the last time F-15 aircraft would appear as aggressor aircraft and 3 examples took part assigned to the 64th AGRS as the 65th AGRS had already disbanded
BLUE AIRFORCE
422nd TES, 53rd FW, Nellis AFB flying F-15C aircraft
125th FS, 138th FW, Tulsa Vipers ,Oklahoma ANG from Tulsa Int. flying F-16C aircraft
421st FS, 388th FW,Black Widows, Hill AFB flying F-16CM aircraft
INTERDICTION
37th BS, 28th BW, Tigers , Ellsworth AFB flying B-1B aircraft
23rd BS, 5th BW, Bomber Barons, Minot AFB flying B-52H aircraft
SEAD
55th FS, 20th FW, Shooters. Shaw AFB flying F-16CJ aircraft
VMAQ-3, MTEW3, MCAS Cherry Point, flying EA-6B aircraft
COMMAND AND CONTROL
NATO flying E-3A aircraft
REFUELLING
344th ARS, 22nd ARW, McConnel AFB flying KC-135R aircraft
INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS
Royal Norwegian Air Force flying C-130J and F-16AM aircraft
United Arab Emirates flying Mirage 2000-9 aircraft
RED AIRFORCE
64th AGRS, 57th ATG, Nellis AFB flying F-16C and F-15C aircraft. These are painted in colours representing the former Communist country airforces and fly in a similar way to those countries to give participating pilots a realistic training environment similar to that which they might encounter in a real engagement.
BLUE AIRFORCE – 125 FS, 138 FW.
