If the Mitsubishi F-2 looks strangely familiar, it should; she is indeed a clone of the General Dynamics now Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon, AKA "Viper.”
U.S. airmen from an Okinawa-based fighter squadron have been banking turns and turning wrenches alongside their Japanese and South Korean counterparts since Aug. 19 at the Pitch Black military exercise in northern Australia.
The modern world gives us plenty of opportunities to see military aircraft in action. Given how the modern world is a largely peaceful one, most of the time we get to see military aircraft flying solo, or at least in very small gangs. But that’s not what we see here.