"... Lt. Col. Jason Monaco climbed six miles above the desert, his fighter soared into the sky with a hoarse roar. He tilted his double F-16D to the right, maneuvering against his fellow pilots. Through the dark visor of the helmet, he suddenly saw the plane of his "opponent". so, the bad news. "Well, - he said, “We just died.”. In a gray helmet with five-pointed red stars on each side, symbolizing communism, Monaco looked like this, as if he could be a foreign pilot, attacking american planes. In fact, he is the commander of the 18th squadron "Aggressor" of the US Air Force, which depicts the "red"….»
F-35 fighters are flown to Alaska
Так The Washington Post in publications from 14 May described the exercises at the Ailson Air Force Base in Alaska, where is the pentagon, notes this edition, getting ready for war with China and Russia.
The platform for war games is the Alaskan Range Complex 77 000 square miles. The Ailson air force base located there is being modernized to prepare pilots for air combat in modern conditions. In April, the first of 54 new aircraft F-35 cost 80 million dollars each. Dozens of climate-controlled hangars planned, modern rocket simulators of the ground-to-air class. The Pentagon trains its pilots to deal with the Chinese J-20 and Russian Su-57. Base expansion plans include the emergence of two new fighter squadrons and an increase in the number of pilots with 1750 to 3200. Fifth-generation airplanes deployed at the base are within the same flight from Eastern Europe and South Korea.
For "immersion in the atmosphere" of a future war, the walls of the building, where the headquarters of the aggressor squadron is located, decorated with five-pointed red stars and portraits of Stalin and Mao Zedong. During the briefing, the commander addresses the pilots “Comrades!», and instructing ends with the performance of the anthem of the Soviet Union. In a programme, known as Skyborg, pilots F-35 must learn to control jet fighter drones with a combination of artificial intelligence and remote piloting, US Assistant Secretary of State Will Roper said. 10-full-time exercises are held three to four times a year; such exercises are also being held at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Other types of armed clashes with the Russian Federation are being worked out.. In February 2020 years rehearsed a nuclear strike on Russia. According to the scenario of exercises, Russia created a "contingency situation" and attacked Europe, what followed by a retaliatory strike. Pentagon chief Mark Esper and members of the US Congress participated in working out the conflict with the use of nuclear weapons..
American technology, arrived at the exercises
NATO's largest exercises to resume in June Defender Europe 2020, which were originally supposed to start in March. Pentagon has developed a strategy Multi-Domain Battle (battle in many environments), and the upcoming exercises should become its test in real conditions with the use of new components of the armed forces - cyber military, space troops, etc.
planned, that will take part in the exercises 18 countries - 17 NATO member states plus Georgia. The total number of personnel was to be almost 40 thousand. human; It was supposed to use thousands of units of land equipment, hundreds of aircraft and a huge amount of ammunition of all classes. The bulk of the troops (29 thousand. human) in the exercises in Europe should have put the United States.
Tanks in exercises
According to plan, exercises were supposed to take place on the territory 10 nations, Germany should serve as the main logistics hub for the NATO Alliance. According to the scenario, the conflict occurs in 2028 year, Alliance forces face conditional adversary from Eastern Europe. It was planned to simultaneously land three airborne assault forces in different sections of the conventional front - in Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia.
Symbols of the teachings of Defender Europe 2020
However, a viral infection has made adjustments to these plans.. 25 March Inspector General of the Bundeswehr E. Zorn stated, that exercises in Poland, Lithuania and Germany canceled. It is in Central and Eastern Europe. And in Alaska, American pilots continue to practice attacks on a conditional enemy, whose identification marks are five-pointed red stars.
The title photo: American pilots in Alaska fly with Soviet-era markings
Vladimir Malyshev
