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F-16V to test counter Cruise Missile Defense role

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The U.S. Air Force has been busy testing the new M7.3 update for the F-16 and will later the role of counter Cruise Missile Defense using jets equipped with the new AN/APG-83 AESA radar.

Lt. Col. Stephen Graham, 84th TES electronic warfare test director, taxis on the flight line as he prepares to conduct Force Development Evaluations of multiple systems on the F-16, Dec. 15, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Major Mike Giaquinto)

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Most advance F-15s in operation join U.S. forces in Gulf for exercise

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F-15SAs from the Royal Saudi Air Force join U.S. Air Force F-15Es and F-16s in a combined joint air operations in the Gulf on Dec. 17-18.

201217-N-PS962-1450 ARABIAN GULF (Dec. 17, 2020) – The Royal Saudi Naval Force corvette HMS Badr (612), front to back, the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), Navy patrol coastal ships USS Squall (PC 7), USS Firebolt (PC 10), Coast Guard patrol boats USCGC Monomoy (WPB 1326), USCGC Maui (WPB 1304) and USCGC Wrangell (WPB 1332) transit the Arabian Gulf with Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA fighter jets, U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets, a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter and a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft during the joint and combined air operations in support of maritime surface warfare (AOMSW) exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Dec. 17. Combined integration operations between joint U.S. forces are regularly held to maintain interoperability and the capability to counter threats posed in the maritime domain, ensuring freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce throughout the region’s heavily trafficked waterways. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV)

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355th FS reactivates

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Eielson Air Force Base now has a second F-35A squadron when the 355th Fighter Squadron was reactivated on Dec. 18.

The 355th Fighter Squadron flagship F-35A Lightning II aircraft is parked in a hangar during the squadron reactivation ceremony at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Dec. 18, 2020. The 355th FS’ primary mission is the suppression of enemy air defenses and offensive counter-air missions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jose Miguel T. Tamondong)

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