Mysterious Exercise Off Baja Brought Nellis AFB, USS Nimitz Aircraft Together

The Drive ^ | JUN 8, 2022 | JOSEPH TREVITHICK, TYLER ROGOWAY

[American Number 181269513]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good thing we have all those stealthy jets that nobody can find.

[devane617]

Marines lost a V22 with five aboard today(all dead) in the vicinity.

[pfflier]

Good thing we have all those stealthy jets that nobody can find.

If they were used, no one did.

[proust]

Burning up a lot of fuel, flying in circles. Gotta justify those budgets. Use it or lose it.

[higgmeister]

I'll say again, a fully loaded KC-135 taking off is the loudest aircraft I have ever heard.   Our apartment was just a few hundred yards from the main gate at MacDill and our infant daughter...

[CivilWarBrewing]

That map is insane.

NONE of our tactical maneuvers should be open source and traceable. This should be classified, WTF!

Also, I thought the F-117 was decommissioned and out of service?

Further, we see F-35's flying around here ALL THE TIME. Occasional F-16's, LOTS of V-22's, etc.. We ALSO see an UNKNOWN craft being escorted by what we think are F-35's but not sure as this only happens AT NIGHT. The unknown craft leading the formation has CONSTANT AFTERBURNER GLOW, unlike the F-35's escorting it. The F-35's have singular halogen-type marker lights while the lead unknown has no lights whatsoever. Okay, I'll shut up now.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Something tells me the inter service rivalry will lead to failure even when they cooperate.

[hardspunned]

You could have bought all that equipment mentioned, including a brand new carrier battle group, with the money pi$$ed away in Ukraine LAST MONTH! Xi plays the dolts in DC or just watches the dolts play themselves.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Louder than an F4?

[CivilWarBrewing]

People bash the V-22 as unsafe but there are large numbers of them flying every day. LOTS.

[SIDENET]

E-3, serial number 75-0558

I've got some seat time in ol' 558.

[CivilWarBrewing]

The F-111 Aardvark is pretty loud, too, especially in terrain-following RADAR mode.

[dragnet2]

[Tijeras_Slim]

I had one of those go about 100 feet over my head when I was near the east west runway in Albuquerque. It was pretty loud too.

[DuncanWaring]

Not as loud as a B-36.

[dragnet2]

[SIDENET]

Also, I thought the F-117 was decommissioned and out of service?

They brought them back into service, and I think they've been flying missions in Syria.

I read an article a while ago about the 117s coming back. I'm trying to remember the specifics, but they kept a decent number of them flyable, and moved them back to active service without saying anything about it. I wanna say that they are flying out of Tonopah vs their old digs of Holoman AFB, NM. I guess that Tonopah was their home before Holoman anyway, so they are back to their ancestral homeland. (lol)

If anyone has better open source info, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[The Free Engineer]

I think some F-117s are still used as training adversaries.