Fighter squadrons, including a class of F-22 student pilots, from across the East Coast recently convened in Georgia for the Air National Guard’s largest fighter integration and air-to-air training exercise. The event, Sentry Savannah 16-3, included F-22s along with T-38s, F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, and KC-135 tanker support at Savannah ANGB, Ga., according to an Air Combat Command release. F-22 student pilots from Tyndall AFB, Fla., flew in the exercise as a graduation event in a “dynamic and stressful training environment to put the skillsets they have learned to the test” in the exercise, Capt. Troy Pierce, 43rd Fighter Squadron A-flight commander, said in the release.
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack planes in the Middle East are flying with fresh modifications as the Air Force looks to make the plane more versatile amid America’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports and a tenuous ceasefire in the U.S. air war against Iran.