
JOINT-BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – On a crisp and overcast afternoon in late October, four T-38A Talon trainers and two F-22 Raptors fighter aircraft from Air Combat Command’s 71st Fighter Training Squadron took off one by one from Langley Air Force Base in southern Virginia and reconvened over the Atlantic Ocean to conduct an aggressor training exercise. The 1960s-era T-38s played both ally and adversary for the fifth-generation F-22s. But that combination of aircraft is liable to change in the next…