Duels in the desert

The third iteration of Blue Flag was Israel’s biggestever multinational exercise. Around 1,200 air and ground crews and some 70 aircraft generated dozens of joint sorties over the Negev Desert in the south of the country. Amit Agronov and Noam Menashe were there. Exercise Report Blue Flag 2017 F-16C Block 40 Barak 514 (CJ-7, 90-0855) gets airborne from Ovda. This was one of six 101 Squadron ‘First Fighter’ jets involved in Blue Flag 2017. Amit Agronov The Blue Flag training