Agile Combat Employment Exercise Across UK

The Royal Air Force and UK-based US Air Force held an Agile Combat Employment exercise known as Agile Shield between September 2 and 6, 2024.Agile Combat Employment exercises involve participants dispersing their aircraft and personnel to other locations at short notice and continuing to operate without their usual ground support. These exercises are intended to strengthen participants’ capability to rapidly deploy from their home base at short notice with minimal support, and then establish and sustain combat airpower.Four of the