A short video showing 4x 🇫🇮 Finnish Air Force F-18s 🇫🇮 making a fine sight as they return in formation to RAF Waddington

Exercise Cobra Warrior Following my second visit to RAF Waddington during Exercise Cobra Warrior, on Friday 17th - where I managed to record the departure home of all six of the Belgian Air Force F-16s, see four of the Finnish Air Force F-18s go off on an exercise, and catch a pair of the 'exotic' Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s 😎 :) - I made a third visit on Tuesday 21st in the third and final week of the exercise. I was hoping to see more Indians but this wasn't to be.

In this short video, we see the four Finnish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornets arriving back in formation to RAF Waddington - the four flying that day being HN-422, HN-411, HN-424 & HN-438. They had only been up for about 45 minutes. The aircraft each peal away for their spaced landings. Apologies for the gusts of wind on the mic - it was a tad breezy 😎 :)

Exercise Cobra Warrior is a biannual exercise run by the Royal Air Force and is designed to exercise participants in high intensity large force tactical training. This year's exercise is taking place from the 6th to the 24th of March, controlled by directing staff at RAF Waddington. More info on Exercise Cobra Warrior here: www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/international-participants-f...

Cobra Warrior Participants

Based at Waddington

🇧🇪Belgian Air Force (Force Aérienne Belge)🇧🇪
General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon (Viper) x6

FA-77
FA-102
FA-116 (349 sqd special tail)
FA-127
FA-134
FA-136 (display special)

🇫🇮 Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) 🇫🇮
McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornet x6

HN-406
HN-411 (small bull on nose)
HN-422
HN-424 (black lynx on nose)
HN-438
HN-448

🇮🇳 Indian Air Force 🇮🇳
Dassault Mirage 2000 x5

KF112 - 2000I
KF118 - 2000I
KT208 - 2000TI
KT211 - 2000TI
KT213 - 2000TI

Based at Coningsby

🈂 Royal Saudi Air Force 🈂
EF2000 Eurofighter Typhoon x6

1020 - T3
316 - FGR4
8019 - FGR4
1019 - FGR4
1022 - FGR4 (Green Canard)
8018 - FGR4

More info here: www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=455&t=...

Low-res shot taken with an iPhone 6s iPhone photography - apologies for the poor quality of some of these phone photos - sometimes they're nice and sharp - sometimes they're all pixelated and not up to my usual standard. The videos are better :)

You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/

Taken in: UK / England / North Kesteven / Waddington (show map)

Taken on: March 21, 2023

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