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Royal Australian Air Force Avionics Technicians standby as pilots perform pre-flight checks on their F-35A Lightning II aircraft during Exercise Red Flag 26-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, United States. (Defence)
Keeping the fighters flying at Exercise Red Flag
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As fighter jets thundered across the skies above the Nevada desert and complex air combat scenarios played out, much of the success of Exercise Red Flag Nellis 26-1 was being delivered well away from the public eye on the flight line.
Behind every sortie launched at one of the world’s most demanding air combat exercises was a team of aircraft maintainers working around the clock to keep jets serviceable under intense operational pressure. For Australia, that task fell to personnel from No. 75 Squadron, who were responsible for sustaining the Royal Australian Air Force’s fifth-generation fighters throughout the exercise.
Red Flag, run several times each year by the United States Air Force, is designed to replicate the complexity, tempo and stress of modern high-end air warfare. Allied air forces operate in a contested, coalition environment against a sophisticated adversary, testing not just pilots but the entire force that supports them.
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