Video by Travis Minyon | F-35 Joint Program Office | 04.04.2022
The 71st Fighter Training Squadron and 421st Fighter Squadron participate in Exercise Agile Tiger. The four-day interoperability exercise is an opportunity to develop new and non-traditional communications tactics, techniques and procedures. The F-35 Joint Program Office is the Department of Defense's focal point for the 5th generation strike aircraft for the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and......
Video by Travis Minyon | F-35 Joint Program Office | 04.04.2022
The 71st Fighter Training Squadron and 421st Fighter Squadron participate in Exercise Agile Tiger. The four-day interoperability exercise is an opportunity to develop new and non-traditional communications tactics, techniques and procedures. The F-35 Joint Program Office is the Department of Defense's focal point for the 5th generation strike aircraft for the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and......
Video by Ronald Bradshaw | 388th Fighter Wing | 10.23.2020
Pilots with the 421st Fighter Squadron return to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Oct. 23, 2020, following a six-month deployment to Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. (U.S. Air Force video by R. Nial Bradshaw)...
Video by Airman 1st Class Bryan Guthrie | Nellis Air Force Base | 02.10.2020
F-35 Lightning II fighter jets assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron underneath the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, performed night operations during Red Flag 20-1....
Video by Ronald Bradshaw | 388th Fighter Wing | 02.07.2020
Pilots and maintainers in the 421st Fighter Squadron launch and fly the F-35A Lightning II in their first Red Flag together. The exercise, from Jan. 27-Feb. 15, is meant to give at least 10 combat-representative sorties to younger pilots to better prepare them for real combat against very capable adversaries. The 421st Fighter Squadron is the most recent squadron to transition to the F-35A in......
Video by Airman 1st Class Chanceler Nardone | 52nd Fighter Wing | 07.18.2019
U.S. Air Force F-35A Lighting II aircraft, assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron and F-15E Strike Eagles, assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina participate in Operation Rapid Forge. Rapid Forge aircraft are forward deploying to bases in the territory of NATO allies in order to enhance readiness and improve interoperability....
Video by Airman 1st Class Chanceler Nardone | 52nd Fighter Wing | 07.16.2019
U.S. Air Force F-35A Lighting II, assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron participates in Operation Rapid Forge. Rapid Forge aircraft are forward deploying to bases in the territory of NATO allies in order to enhance readiness and improve interoperability....
Video by Senior Airman Kevyn Allen | AFN Aviano | 06.05.2019
F-16 and F-35A aircraft participate in support of Astral Knight 2019, a joint and multinational exercise held June 5, 2019, on Aviano Air Base. This exercise is an integrated air and missile defense exercise where training focuses on conducting integrated air and missile defense of various terrains. (U.S. Air Force video video by Airman First Class Kevyn Allen)...