page_title: Red Flag – Alaska
section_title: Red Flag-Alaska
hierarchical_section_title: Red Flag – Alaska / History / Red Flag-Alaska
caption_attribution_description: English: A pair of F-16 Fighting Falcon Aggressors fly over the Alaska Range during RED FLAG-Alaska 10-2, April 20, 2010, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. RF-A provides participants 67,000 square miles of airspace, more than 30 threat simulators, one conventional bombing range and two tactical bombing ranges containing more than 400 different types of targets. The F-16s are assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron.
context_page_description: Red Flag-Alaska is a realistic, 10-day air combat United States Air Force training exercise held up to four times a year. It is held at Eielson Air Force Base and Elmendorf Air Force Base in the State of Alaska. Each Red Flag-Alaska exercise is a multi-service, multi-platform coordinated, combat operations exercise and corresponds to the designed operational capability of participating units. In other words, exercises often involve several units whose military mission may differ significantly from that of other participating units. Red Flag-Alaska planners take those factors into consideration when designing exercises so participants get the maximum training possible without being placed at an unfair advantage during simulated combat scenarios.
context_section_description: Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces sponsored exercise. Since its inception, thousands of people from all four branches of the US military, as well as the armed services of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Philippines,  Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, have taken part in multinational Red Flag-Alaska exercises.
  Participating aircraft include A/OA-10, B-1B Lancer, B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress2, C-130, C-160, E-2 Hawkeye, E-3 Sentry, F-15C, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-18, F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II, EA-6B, EA-18, KC-130, KC-135 Stratotanker, KC-10 Extender, HC-130, various helicopters and Panavia Tornado, Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, Vickers VC10, 
  Aero L-159 Alca, Sukhoi Su-30MKI, Eurofighter Typhoon, Mitsubishi F-2, and SEPECAT Jaguar as well as Stinger Teams from the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
caption: 18th Aggressor Squadron F-16's from Eielson AFB during a Red Flag-Alaska mission.
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