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Over the Gulf of Mexico, US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Dave Evans, right, an F-15 Eagle test pilot with the 46th Test Wing (TW), Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, flies formation with this Soviet-built MiG-29 Fulcrum being flown by Luftwaffe Major (MAJ) Ron Triegel, with Germany's (DEU) 73rd Fighter Wing (FW), Laage Air Base (AB), during a live-fire training exercise

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US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) Murray Nance, Jr., an F-15C Eagle instructor pilot assigned to the 2nd Fighter Squadron (FS), from Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, flies over the Gulf of Mexico after firing an AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) at a sub-scale aerial target drone. His unit participated in an air-to-air Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) known as Combat Archer

US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Ed "Gus" Rinke (foreground), and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jamie Blattner, both assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing (FW), inspect an AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) on a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, as part of Phase I of the Operation Readiness Inspection (ORI) at Swanton, Ohio (OH)

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Over the Gulf of Mexico, US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) Ed Corchoran, an F-15C Eagle pilot with the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES), Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada (NV), leads a pair of MiG-29 Fulcrum's flown by Luftwaffe pilots Major (MAJ) Ron Triegel and MAJ Peter Meisberger, both from Germany's (DEU) 73rd Fighter Wing (FW), Laage Air Base (AB), Germany

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Country: Gulf Of Mexico

Scene Major Command Shown: ANG

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Michael Ammons, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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A Bulgarian air force MiG-29 Fulcrum taxis after landing

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A US Navy (USN) Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41, Black Aces) aircrew member (left) signals to the USN VFA-41 F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft pilot prior to his taking 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

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