How F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor Pilots Train for War

The U.S. Air Force’s Atlantic Trident 17 exercise brought together some of the NATO alliance’s most capable combat aircraft including the fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter as well as the British Eurofighter Typhoon and the French Dassault Rafale at Joint Base Langley Eustis in Virginia.

But to train for war, someone has to play the part of the bad guy—or Red Air in Air Force parlance. In the case of Atlantic Trident, the task of flying as red air fell to the 366th Fighter Wing’s 391st Fighter Squadron, which flies the powerful Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle, and the 1st Fighter Wing’s 71st Fighter Training Squadron, which flies the T-38A Talon.

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