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US Navy (USN) SEAMAN (SN) Cody Brissey, Plane Captain Technician, Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41), (Black Aces), prepares an F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft prepares to take off from Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), for a training mission during Exercise COOPERATIVE COPE THUNDER, the largest multinational air combat training exercise in the Pacific. This 15-day exercise simulates wartime combat conditions so that military personnel from 12-nations can sharpen their air fighting skills, exchange air operational tactics, and build closer relations with each other

A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft, Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (AIRTEVRON) Nine (VX-9, ßVampiresß), Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS), China Lake, California (CA), is on landing approach to NAWS China Lake after flying an operational flight test mission over the Owens Lake region of the Eastern High Sierras and Mojave Test Ranges to evaluate the prototype of the APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar

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Base: Naws China Lake

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: CDR Ian C. Anderson, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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