Atlantic Trident 2017 - Langley AFB
Atlantic Trident 2017 - Langley AFB
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
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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Ryan Sundheimer
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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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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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Here are some more fighters I got while hanging around Langley AFB.
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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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Here is our video (filmed by Ricky) of the takeoffs and recoveries on media day. Nonstop jets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1KdPqd0XY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1KdPqd0XY
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Ryan Sundheimer
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Atlantic Trident 2017, Langley AFB, 12-28Apr17
https://photo01aviation.smugmug.com/SE/ ... pr17Apr17/
https://photo01aviation.smugmug.com/SE/ ... pr17Apr17/
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IMG_9842 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_9814 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_9430 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_9390 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_8116 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_9814 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_9430 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_9390 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
IMG_8116 by Andy Backowski, on Flickr
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Check out my current Airshow Photographs here: https://andybackowski.zenfolio.com/f382726257
Andy also wrote this article up for us!
Atlantic Trident 2017 Exercise Combines Eurofighters, Rafales, And Raptors To Strengthen Ties Between Allies
Atlantic Trident 2017 Exercise Combines Eurofighters, Rafales, And Raptors To Strengthen Ties Between Allies
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