Cobra Warrior 2024-2

Image courtesy of Mike Hiley

Exercise Cobra Warrior 2023-2 hosted at RAF Waddington during September 2023. The exercise ran for several weeks, and was home to a pair of NATO E-3A Awacs aircraft and CF-18 Hornet aircraft from the Royal Canadian Air force and 2 Gulfstream G-550A aircraft from the Italian Air Force.

Cobra Warrior 2024-2, as usual run by 92 Squadron from RAF Waddington, included assets from around the world, as well as visiting aircraft at Waddington. Aircraft taking part from RAF Lakenheath and Mildenhall included the above videos of visiting F-16 and F-35A Lightnings,

KC-135 Tankers from Mildenhall  did the air-to-air refueling of the American aircraft.

Images courtesy of Stuart Thurtle.

Aircraft based at Waddington included the Royal Canadian F-18 Hornets and the F-16 from the Polish Air Force.

Images courtesy of Mike Gaukwin.