Atlantic Trident 2017 - Langley AFB

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Atlantic Trident 2017 - Langley AFB

Post by RyanS » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:37 pm

Today was the media day for the Atlantic Trident 2017 exercise, held at Joint Base Langley-Eustice. They had a short airshow with an F-22 demo, a French Rafale demo, and the Patrouille de France. The media were also invited to film mass takeoffs as part of the exercises.

Here is video of the full Rafale C demonstration by the French Air Force. We will add more videos and photos to this thread soon!

https://youtu.be/GzVkBsPrDOg
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Post by RyanS » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:37 pm

From the USAF press release:
Atlantic Trident 2017, hosted by the 1st Fighter Wing, focuses on air operations in a highly contested operational environment through a variety of complex, simulated adversary scenarios. The goal of the exercise is to enhance interoperability through combined coalition aerial campaigns.

“This exercise was designed to encourage the sharing and development of air combat TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures) with our French and U.K. partners, against a range of potential threats leveraging U.S. Air Force fifth-generation capabilities,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Peter Fesler, 1st Fighter Wing commander. “This is not only an opportunity to share the capabilities of the aircraft, pilots and maintainers between our nations, but to build friendship, trust and confidence that will improve our interoperability as we go forward.”

While various exercises are held with allied and partner nations throughout the world, this exercise is one of the first to focus on greater integration of U.S. Air Force fifth-generation capabilities.

Joint Base Langley-Eustis hosted a similar exercise in December 2015, but the upcoming exercise will be uniquely valuable with the addition of the F-35 Lightning II to the training.

Atlantic Trident 2017 will feature the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II; the RAF Eurofighter Typhoon; and the FAF Dassault Rafale. U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles and T-38 Talons will play the roles of adversary aircraft.

U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry and KC-10 Extender aircraft will also provide support during the exercise.
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Post by F22raptor_ganoe » Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:01 pm

Here is a picture I captured with my iPhone 7 Plus of an F-35 Lightning II joining the fighters already here for Atlantic Trident 2017!
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Post by F22raptor_ganoe » Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:05 pm

Here are some more fighters I got while hanging around Langley AFB.
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Post by AndyMedic » Sat Apr 22, 2017 1:29 pm

This was a pretty cool event. I had to go out of town for a few days right after it. I cant wait to go home and go over all the pics I took at this event. Langley did a bang up job putting this together
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Post by RyanS » Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:01 pm

Here is our video (filmed by Ricky) of the takeoffs and recoveries on media day. Nonstop jets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1KdPqd0XY
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Post by AGMore » Mon May 01, 2017 12:06 am

Atlantic Trident 2017, Langley AFB, 12-28Apr17
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Post by AndyMedic » Mon May 01, 2017 11:03 pm

ImageIMG_9842 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr

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ImageIMG_8116 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
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