Two British Royal Air Force (RAF) ground crew members us a Rotozoom machine in order to install a Magnetic Detector Unit (MDU) on the upright tail stabilizer of a GR-4 Tornado fighter-bomber aircraft that is parked on the tarmac at Eielson FB, Alaska (AK), 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
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Eielson Air Force Base
State: Alaska (AK)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ricky A Bloom, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
27/07/2004
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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