Check Out These Photos From Cobra Warrior 24-2 – Including a Revelation About a Canadian Hornet | Aviation

Cobra Warrior 24-2 is a large multinational exercise taking place in the UK between Sept. 16 and Oct. 4 2024, directed by the Air and Space Warfare Centre at RAF Waddington. Check out these great photos of some of the aircraft involved.

Since Sept. 16, 2024, around 80 aircraft from nations across NATO have been putting their skills to the test in what’s now become one of the alliance’s most well known exercises. Usually held twice a year, once in the Spring and once in the Autumn, this year’s Spring edition (Cobra Warrior 24-1) was cancelled for unknown reasons, leaving the Autumn event as the only Cobra Warrior exercise for 2024.

Alongside locally based units from the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force, visiting aircraft have included USAF F-16s from the 31st FW at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Polish F-16s from 3 Squadron, Norwegian F-35As from 332 Squadron, Canadian F/A-18s from 409 Squadron, and Finnish F/A-18s from Fighter Squadron 11.

The exercise focuses on interoperability between different air arms and their respective aircraft in a contested air environment on a level that would be expected in a conflict with a peer or near peer adversary. The previous year’s exercise was…