Saturday, November 6, 2021

U.S. And South Korea Conduct Major Air Exercises

U.S. Air Force F-16s taxi out for an elephant walk during Exercise Vigilant Ace at Osan Air Base, South Korea, in Dec. 2017. U.S. AIR FORCE  

Warzone/The Drive: Hundreds Of South Korean And U.S. Warplanes Are Conducting A Secretive Exercise In Korea  

The unpublicized maneuvers are being staged in the wake of a spate of potentially destabilizing missile developments on the peninsula. 

Amid a simmering ‘missile race’ on the Korean peninsula, South Korea and the United States are running a large-scale air exercise in the region, with around 200 aircraft reportedly involved. The maneuvers represent a return to the large-scale collaboration of this kind between the two nations that was scaled back dramatically as Washington attempted to negotiate with North Korea about its nuclear weapons program. However, with more recent hopes that Pyongyang might resume talks, the current exercise is being run without any media fanfare. North Korea, for its part, has traditionally complained about these kinds of exercises, whatever the scale.  

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WNU Editor: This is the largest air exercise since the start of US negotiations with North Korea ab out its nuclear program.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Every time I see one of these lineups on a huge runway I think big fat target. What is the defense against some munition?

Anonymous said...

Israel will start war of the world u fools

Stephen Davenport said...

We had these exercises several times when I was stationed at Kunsan in the early 90's. I was an SP and it was a lot of tiring work for us. Very realistic.

Jon said...

Must be awesome memories Stephen. Haven’t been as far as korea but read they are grateful