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Contracted Services to Provide Options, Flexibility for Air Force Red Air Training

Contracted Services to Provide Options, Flexibility for Air Force Red Air Training
F-22 Raptors and T-38 Talons from the 1st Fighter Wing fly in formation of the Atlantic Ocean during training off the coast of Virginia, Oct. 30, 2019. The 1st Fighter Wing is home to the 94th Fighter Squadron, 27th Fighter Squadron and the 71st Fighter Training Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech Sgt. Carlin Leslie)

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…

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