{"id":1600,"date":"2015-03-03T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rapcon.org\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:27:03","slug":"red-flag-nellis-afb-2015-2-intro-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"Red Flag Nellis AFB 2015-2 (Intro & Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

RED FLAG 15\/2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red Flag 15\/2 was held at Nellis Air Force Base between 2nd and 13th March 2015<\/p>\n

RAPCON were privileged to be invited to the Media Day held on 3rd of March and are indebted to our hosts\u00a0 99ABW Public Affairs Office and the excellent access they gave us to the runways.<\/p>\n

As usual, the Exercise was conducted on the vast instrumented Combat Ranges north of Nellis and was organised by the 414th<\/sup> Combat Training Squadron, Nellis AFB.\u00a0 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<\/sup> AGRS as the 65th<\/sup> AGRS had already disbanded<\/p>\n

BLUE AIRFORCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

422nd<\/sup> TES, 53rd<\/sup> FW, Nellis AFB flying F-15C aircraft<\/p>\n

125th<\/sup> FS, 138th<\/sup> FW, Tulsa Vipers ,Oklahoma ANG from Tulsa Int.\u00a0 flying F-16C aircraft<\/p>\n

421st<\/sup> FS, 388th<\/sup> FW,Black Widows, Hill AFB flying F-16CM aircraft<\/p>\n

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INTERDICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

37th BS, 28th BW, Tigers , Ellsworth AFB flying B-1B aircraft<\/p>\n

23rd<\/sup> BS, 5th<\/sup> BW, Bomber Barons, Minot AFB flying B-52H aircraft<\/p>\n

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SEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n

55th<\/sup> FS, 20th<\/sup> FW, Shooters. Shaw AFB\u00a0 flying F-16CJ aircraft<\/p>\n

VMAQ-3,\u00a0 MTEW3, MCAS Cherry Point, flying EA-6B aircraft<\/p>\n

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COMMAND AND CONTROL<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATO flying E-3A aircraft<\/p>\n

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REFUELLING<\/strong><\/p>\n

344th<\/sup> ARS, 22nd<\/sup> ARW, McConnel AFB flying KC-135R aircraft<\/p>\n

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INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Royal Norwegian Air Force flying C-130J and F-16AM\u00a0 aircraft<\/p>\n

United Arab Emirates flying Mirage 2000-9 aircraft<\/p>\n

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RED AIRFORCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

64th<\/sup> AGRS, 57th<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n

BLUE AIRFORCE\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 125 FS,\u00a0 138 FW.<\/p>\n

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