Checkered Flag, the largest fighter exercise in the DoD, is a large-scale aerial exercise designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of Air Force aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on the integration of F-22 Raptor, F-35A Lightning II and legacy aircraft in a large-force exercise. Checkered...
Checkered Flag 17-1 involves air power assets from six Air Combat Command installations which will be evaluated on their ability to mobilize, integrate, deploy and employ combat air power assets on a much larger scale than most other exercises. The focus is on the tactical integration of three fighter squadrons and select units to form a large scale total force integration element with the...
Red Flag is the Air Force's premier air-to-air combat training exercise. Participants often include both US and allied nations' combat air forces. The exercise gives pilots the experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties in the safety of a training environment.
