Israel withdraws F-15s from Red Flag Alaska

Israel has decided that its F-15 fighters will not be heading to Alaska for this year’s Red Flag exercise. The Israelis were supposed to be making its debut in the Alaskan edition of the annual air combat exercise.

Two F-15I Ra'am
By TSGT KEVIN J. GRUENWALD, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Recent tensions between Israel with Iran and Syria were cited as the reason to keep the planes at home.