{"id":13224545,"date":"2026-08-17T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/red-flag-alaska-26-3-us-australia-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:39:26","slug":"red-flag-alaska-26-3-us-australia-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/red-flag-alaska-26-3-us-australia-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Australia Wage War Over Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>There is a patch of sky over interior Alaska so large it could swallow a small country. This month, American and Australian fighter crews are fighting a war inside it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Red Flag-Alaska 26-3 began on 13 August and runs through 28 August 2026, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise flown over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. This iteration is a two-nation affair: the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force, most of their jets operating out of Eielson Air Force Base and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.<\/p>\r\n<p>The point is not to win. The point is to fail somewhere it doesn&rsquo;t cost lives.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Kurzinfo<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>\u00dcbung:<\/strong> Red Flag-Alaska 26-3, sponsored by Pacific Air Forces<\/li><li><strong>Termine:<\/strong> 13&ndash;28 August 2026<\/li><li><strong>WHO:<\/strong> U.S. Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force<\/li><li><strong>Bases:<\/strong> Eielson AFB and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska<\/li><li><strong>Airspace:<\/strong> the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex &mdash; about 120,000 square miles, the largest combat training range in the world<\/li><li><strong>Zweck:<\/strong> realistic training in a simulated deployed environment; interoperability and shared tactics<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The biggest range on Earth<\/h2>\r\n<p>Numbers explain the appeal. The Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex covers roughly 120,000 square miles of airspace &mdash; larger than the whole of Norway &mdash; which lets planners build the sprawling, layered engagements that a real campaign demands. Fighters, tankers, transports and ground forces all fold into one scenario, flying against a thinking adversary rather than a checklist.<\/p>\r\n<p>Home to Eielson&rsquo;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/flugzeug\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">F-35A Lightning II<\/a> squadrons and a regular haunt of the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/flugzeug\/f-22-raptor\/\">F-22 Raptor<\/a>, the range is where American airpower rehearses the Indo-Pacific fight it hopes never to have.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=649106050  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:cxTx.cd16\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/raaf-f-35a-eielson-alaska.jpg\" alt=\"A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A (serial A35-028) at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Australia is the U.S. partner for Red Flag-Alaska 26-3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two air forces, one playbook<\/h2>\r\n<p>Australia is not a casual guest. The RAAF flies the same F-35A as its American hosts, which makes the two forces unusually easy to knit together &mdash; shared jets, shared data links, shared tactics. Exercises like this one are where that compatibility is proven under pressure, not assumed on a briefing slide.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLUiyaQuuBk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Warum es wichtig ist<\/h2>\r\n<p>Red Flag-Alaska traces its lineage to the hard lesson of Vietnam &mdash; that a pilot&rsquo;s most dangerous missions are the first ten, and that survivable numbers rise sharply once those are flown in training instead of combat. The modern exercise simply moves those first ten sorties to a place where mistakes are recoverable.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;This iteration focuses on strengthening partnerships by practicing operations together to improve response capabilities.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Maj. Gregory Guiney<\/strong> &mdash; 354th Operations Group Detachment 1, speaking during a recent Red Flag-Alaska iteration<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The jets that scream over the Alaskan tundra this month &mdash; American <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/flugzeug\/f-16-fighting-falcon\/\">F-16s<\/a>, F-35s from two nations &mdash; are writing a kind of insurance policy. It is expensive, it is loud, and if it works, no one will ever see it pay out.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px;margin-top:24px\">Sources: Pacific Air Forces press release (3 Aug 2026); U.S. Department of War \/ Red Flag-Alaska 26-2 coverage; Eielson Air Force Base. Exercise dates per PACAF: 13&ndash;28 August 2026.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/rimpac-2026-30-nations-and-200-aircraft-converge-on-hawaii-for-the-worlds-largest-naval-exercise\/\">RIMPAC 2026: 30 Nations Converge on Hawaii<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/trump-cuts-us-south-korea-military-drills-2026\/\">Trump Cuts Korea War Games, Hails Kim<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a patch of sky over interior Alaska so large it could swallow a small country. This month, American and Australian fighter crews are fighting a war inside it. 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