A Su22 aircraft by the Vietnamese air force crashed as it was trying to land on the Yen Bai Airport on Tuesday, resulting in the death of pilot Tran Ngoc Duy. - VnExpress International
(inaudible) meet the deputy squadron commander. being the person training against as your enemy rather than someone who you are training against and we do it by weighing the patches and having call signs and copying arab forces and that way it is a training process. reporter: they fly each day against other pilots in the israeli air force, training in everything from bombing runs on militants to a surprise attack on a far away country like the 1983 mission that destroyed iraq s nuclear reactor. what we are doing came from a real life war experience in offering something we have never seen before. reporter: the major and his squadron fly the f-14 strike eagle on the red team to test how good they really are. when the guys take off to fly against the red squadron it is treated as they are going into
because of how secret their mission is. i can tell you, though, they have arabic call signs, they wear arab patches on their uniforms to simulate what it ll be like for the rest of the israeli air force in war. these iranian anti-aircraft missiles would greet israeli pilots if it attacks, and israel s red team studies it to build light training missions for it air force. we try to surprise them the same way we think the other side would surprise us. reporter: meet the deputy squadron commander. seeing the person you re training against as your enemy rather than somebody you re training against. and we do it by wearing the patches, having call signs in arabic, mimicking arab voices on the coms, and it adds a piece to the training process. reporter: the red team flies almost every day against other pilots in the israeli air
the training for missions lasts years. today the israeli s air force red team is helping pilots prepare the next mission. the only way you can come up with the upper hand in conflict is by fighting better. reporter: training them is up to the red team s deputy squadron commander. he goes by the arabic call sign anwar and uses the fighter tactic of enemyilots. it changes my tactics in a formation, how i fly in the formation, and in my cockpit version i have limitations and restrictions on what kind of maneuvers i can do. reporter: when these guys take off to fly against the red squadron it s treated as if they they are going into war. if they are shot down by the opposing force in the air it is treated very differently than any other training exercise and there are severe consequences. it gives them the feeling i took off, i went to an attack