F-35 stealth tactics focus for Italy’s biggest air exercise of 2022

Dutch and US F-35s teamed with their Italian counterparts in November for an exercise that echoed the US’ own Red Flag. Mauro Finati was on hand for Aviation News

Italy’s biggest multi-national air exercise of 2022 was hosted at Amendola Air Base in the south of the country during the second half of November. Known as Falcon Strike, the event brought together Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIs from the Italian, Dutch and US air forces, while other F-35 operators – both present and future – dispatched high-ranking officials to observe the air drills.

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