The “Typhoon Flag” exercise event, which involved personnel and assets from all F2000 Line Departments, has concluded.
From 20 June al 15 July The most important exercise of the year for the “ Line took place“Eurofighter“and the latter was conducted jointly by 4th Wing of Grosseto and from 36th Fighter Wing of Gioia del Colle (BA). For the circumstances, the skills and the Logistics of both Departments.
Starting at their respective Military Bases, the “Typhoon Flag” saw F2000 assets from the 4th, 36th, 37th and 51st Wings redeploy to the airport for two weeks at Gioia del Colle. During this period of redeployment, activities were carried out numerous missions, including some with setups F-35 del 32nd Wing of Amendola, in order to favour ever more concrete integration between aircraft 4th and 5th generation.
Essentially aimed at train future fighter pilots,’exercise it proved to be an excellent opportunity to train in advanced missions within the scope of“Weapons Instructor Course“, also in view of the next training activity called “Cobra Warrior”which the Italian Air Force will conduct in Great Britain next month's September.
The “Typhoon Flag” exercise involved all Eurofighter Squadrons (4th, 36th, 37th and 51st Squadrons) and received support from the Integrated Air and Missile Defence Unit, the 14th Squadron with CAEW and KC767 aircraft, the 16th and 17th Squadrons, as well as the Electronic Warfare Operational Support Unit, for the production of Mission Data. It also enabled the conclusion of the training programme for pilots attending the 33rd Operational Conversion Course to acquire combat readiness on the F2000 aircraft. Both operational conversion and weapon instructor courses are organised by the 20th OCU (Operational Conversion Unit) of the 4th Squadron with the support of all the Squadrons in the line.
For all pilots of the Linea F2000 Who was involved in the exercise, the “Typhoon Flag”It represented an excellent training stage where [we could] compare and standardise techniques and Procedure of use of the’Eurofighter, further consolidating the amalgamation among pilots flying this Weapons System, as well as developing new tactics and techniques related to its use Software P2E of the aircraft and the new related armament.
