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 This article is in fact a 3 in 1 edition, concerning: 1- Refuelling 2- profession of Boomer 
3- The Fighter exercise Frisian Flag in combination with eachother. A very large exercise in The Netherlands in 2014

PART 3 - FRISIAN FLAG

Finally then there are the fighters, operating from Leeuwarden Airforcebase in exercise Frisian Flag (Belgian F-16)
Many countries participate in this annual happening....
...it appears that so many want to join that sometimes some requests have to be rejected. (Danish F-16)
In combination with EART this year gave extra experience to advanced and new younger pilots.
There was air-to-air training, but also air-to-ground actions on improvised targets such as this inflatable example.
Finnish Hornets in action.
Leeuwarden AFB is a large base in the meadows of the Province of Leeuwarden..
Fighters on their way to the meetingpoint with the tanker to be refuelled.
Dutch twin-seat F-16B.
F-16 in action against ground target.
Ground targets were positioned in the exercise to be discovered and 'eliminated'.
German Eurofighter in dogfight.
Frisian Flag exercise planes on the platform at Leeuwarden Airbase.
Some Spanish Eurofighter images...
The 'Wild Bunch' coming in ........   ;-)).
Cobham Company took care of jamming and generating annoying interferences for the pilots to handle.
Detco's (Detachment Commanders) are always willing to give an interview, that leads to the articles you can read.
There's humor in everything, you just have to see it ;-)))  Thanks for being with us in this story !
   
We hope you liked this combination of three exercises in one, a large Dutch operation in 2014 
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