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A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 492nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), Royal Air Force (RAF), Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK), armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, and GBU-12 500-pound Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, flies over the no-fly zone during a mission flown in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 555th FS (Fighter Squadron), armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), GBU-12 500-pound bombs, and a GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), photographed following at refueling mission flown over Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 492nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), Royal Air Force (RAF), Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK), armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, and GBU-12 500-pound Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, flies over the no-fly zone during a mission flown in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), refuels from a KC135 Stratotanker aircraft from the 163rd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), California Air National Guard (ANG), during a mission in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. The aircraft is armed with GBU-12 500-pound Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, AGM-65 Maverick Missiles, and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle fighter, 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho (ID), piloted by USAF Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Stephen Rusin and Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) USAF Major (MAJ) Timothy Lewis, receives fuel from a tanker above Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Strike Eagle is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, and GBU-16 1,000-pound bombs. It is also equipped with an AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING AT targeting pod

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft from the157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (FS), 379th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), armed with AIM-120B Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AGM-88 High-Speed Antiradiation Missile (HARM), and one AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, prepares for its next mission at a forward deployed location during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Over Iraqi skies, two US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle fighters from the 492nd Fighter Squadron (FS), Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, England (ENG), tuck-in close while carrying Paveway Laser Guided Bombs and AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM) Slammers, during a mission in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

An F-15E Strike Eagle, 366th Air Expeditionary Wing, 391st Fighter Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, taxies to the runway at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, as it heads out for its first bombing mission into Afghanistan, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. It is equipped with the LANTRIN Navigation and Targeting System pod and carries two racks of GBU-12 500-pound bombs with CCG MAU-169 guidance system, AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and AIM-9 Sidewinders, and 600-gallon drop tanks

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 494th Fighter Squadron (FS), Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM); AIM-9 Sidewinders Missiles; GBU-12 500-pound bombs, and a GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), in flight over the skies of Iraq on a combat sortie in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Aaron D. Allmon II, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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An US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon from the 78th Fighter Squadron (FS), Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, releases a GBU-31 2,000 pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) over the Eglin AFB, Land Range during a test mission

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U.S. Air Force AIRMAN 1ST Class Christopher Redmond, from the 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, performs swaying to a Guided Bomb Unit 12 (GBU-12) Paveway II laer-guided weapon on an A/OA-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft during the Load Crew of the Quarter competition at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on Jan. 10, 2005. (USAF PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Christina D. Kinsey) (Released)

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