![]() ![]() Scott Mills, the 57th Operations Group commander and an F-35 aggressor pilot, said in a recent statement. "My job is not to give blue an easy day," Col. Red Flag, which takes place at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, started as an air-combat exercise but has evolved to include not just increasingly advanced aerial aggressor threats but also surface-to-air, space, and information threats. The US Air Force turned up the pressure this month at its premier air-to-air combat-training exercise, for the first time adding F-35 stealth fighters flown by dedicated red-air aggressor pilots - who emulate the tactics of an enemy force - into the mix of threats that blue-air pilots face.
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