{"id":717,"date":"2010-03-01T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rapcon.org\/?p=717"},"modified":"2012-09-21T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:39:27","slug":"red-flag-nellis-afb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Red Flag Nellis AFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"flickr_72157631565769346_5533\"><div class=\"slickr-flickr-galleria landscape m800  original\" style=\"visibility:hidden;\"><p class=\"nav m800\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"prevSlide\">&laquo; previous<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"startSlide\">start<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"stopSlide\">stop<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"nextSlide\">next &raquo;<\/a><\/p><ul><li class=\"active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8321\/7999625162_cca5709ab6_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8321\/7999625162_cca5709ab6_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;IMG_0353&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" 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\/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8180\/7999631202_12c89f8e63_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8180\/7999631202_12c89f8e63_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;IMG_6890&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><p class=\"nav m800\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"prevSlide\">&laquo; previous<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"startSlide\">start<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"stopSlide\">stop<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"nextSlide\">next &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/div><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Red Flag 2010-3 at Nellis AFB 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Feb to 6<sup>th<\/sup> March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Participating Units<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Red Air<\/h1>\n<p>64<sup>th<\/sup> AGRS from Nellis\u00a0\u00a0 F-16<\/p>\n<p>65<sup>th<\/sup> AGRS from Nellis\u00a0\u00a0 F-15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Blue Air<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Escort<\/h1>\n<p>7<sup>th<\/sup> Fighter Squadron from Holloman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F-22<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Interdiction<\/h1>\n<p>28<sup>th<\/sup> Bomb Squadron from Dyess\u00a0 B-1B<\/p>\n<p>77<sup>th<\/sup> Fighter Squadron\u00a0 RAAF\u00a0\u00a0 F-18A<\/p>\n<p>VMFA-122 Warewolves from MCAS Beaufort\u00a0 F-18<\/p>\n<p>4 Squadron from RAF Cottesmore\u00a0 Harrier GR9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>SEAD<\/h1>\n<p>VAQ-209 fromWhidbey Island\u00a0\u00a0 EA-6B<\/p>\n<p>41<sup>st<\/sup> ECS from Davis Montham\u00a0\u00a0 EC-130<\/p>\n<p>55<sup>th<\/sup> Fighter Squadron from Shaw AFB\u00a0\u00a0 F-16CJ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Command and Control <\/strong>(Only flew night missions)<\/p>\n<p>E-3 from Tinker AFB<\/p>\n<p>E-8 from Robins AFB<\/p>\n<p>RC-135V\u00a0 from Offutt AFB<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Air Refuelling<\/h1>\n<p>52 ARW from Fairchild, WashingtonKC-135T<\/p>\n<p>155 ARW from Lincoln, Nebraska\u00a0 KC-135R<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Flag Exercises<\/strong> are held 4 times a year at Nellis AFB in Nevada &amp; the purpose of these exercises is to\u00a0provide aircrew with a near wartime combat experience including live weapons firing before they actually go to war.\u00a0 Use is made of the vast instrumented ranges north of Nellis AFB &amp; particularly Ranges 74-76. The specially trained agressors of\u00a0 65<sup>th<\/sup> and 64<sup>th<\/sup> AGRS flying their F-15s and F-16s are pitched against a package of Fighters and interdiction aircraft supported by SEAD and\u00a0 Command and Control Aircraft as they attack targets in the ranges. The instrumentation on the ranges, allows for a\u00a0 complete debriefing after each sortie thus pilots can learn from any mistakes made and improve their capabilities as a consequence<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately &amp; due to a lack of personne at Nellis, thus\u00a0 there were no media days for this particular Red Flag, so all photography was taken from outside the base from the Speedway and Cheyenne Avenue locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Flag 2010-3 at Nellis AFB 22nd Feb to 6th March 2010 Participating Units &nbsp; Red Air 64th AGRS from Nellis\u00a0\u00a0 F-16 65th AGRS from Nellis\u00a0\u00a0 F-15 &nbsp; Blue Air &nbsp; Escort 7th Fighter Squadron from Holloman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F-22 &nbsp; Interdiction 28th Bomb Squadron from Dyess\u00a0 B-1B 77th Fighter Squadron\u00a0 RAAF\u00a0\u00a0 F-18A VMFA-122 Warewolves from MCAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}