Green light! Back in July, the RCAF took part in Exercise MOBILITY GUARDIAN, an international readiness exercise in the Indo-Pacific region. Check out this video showing an RCAF Hercules and crew participating in an airdrop over The Mariana Islands. Working closely with our partners and Allies from 🇦🇺, 🇫🇷, 🇯🇵, 🇳🇿, 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸 on operations, in realistic situations such as #ExMOBILITYGUARDIAN, helps the RCAF maintain the speed, flexibility, and readiness required for agile combat employmen

Check out these highlights from week two of Exercise Maple Flag 50! #RCAF #FriendsPartnersAllies Canadian and multinational aircraft alongside RCAF tactical helicopter squadrons, transporting troops and equipment at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta. #ExMapleFlag: http://bit.ly/22rikkw 🎥 MCpl HJL MacRae and Cpl J Roy, 4 Wing imaging Canadian Armed Forces Canadian Army United States Air Force 4 Wing MFRC - Cold Lake CRFM région de Montréal / MFRC Montreal Region | Royal Canadian Air Force

During Exercise Eastern Breeze, held from August 25 to September 12 at CFB Bagotville, the 417 (Cold Lake, AB), 439 (Bagotville, QC), and 444 (Goose Bay, NL) Combat Support Squadrons honed their search and rescue techniques. These realistic training scenarios help teams enhance their effectiveness and coordination, ensuring they can respond swiftly when every second counts. ⏱️ 🚁 | Royal Canadian Air Force

Are you up for the challenge of wilderness survival? What about in the Arctic? Meet Sgt Jeremy Chapman – a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) instructor. His role is to train members of the Canadian Armed Forces on wilderness survival, no matter the conditions, even behind enemy lines! | Royal Canadian Air Force

A Tuesday Throwback to Exercise ARCTIC EDGE where the #RCAF’s 436 Transport Squadron conducted extreme cold weather paradrop operations with the U.S. Army on February 29, 2020. This is how we #StayReady to protect the Canadian Arctic region! | Royal Canadian Air Force

The RCAF recently participated in AMALGAM EAGLE 25, a tri-national, live-fly exercise executed by NORAD, focused on cross-border air-defence operations to improve readiness for major events such as the 2026 FIFA World Cup. During the exercise, an unresponsive aircraft was intercepted by both Canadian and US fighter aircraft to ensure compliance of simulated air traffic restrictions over the city of Toronto, Ontario. | Royal Canadian Air Force

Last week marked the conclusion of Exercise #EpicSkies in Qatar. Six Typhoons from the joint RAF and Qatar Emiri Air Force 12 Squadron completed over 60 successful missions over the course of the 2-week exercise. Watch the video to find out more about the Exercise from the Commanding Officers of 12 Squadron. Read more: https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/joint-raf-qatari-sqaudron-fly-over-60-missions-during-exercise-in-qatar/ | Royal Air Force

Aircraft from 41 Squadron Royal Air Force Coningsby conducted a long-planned live fire exercise with the Royal Navy, and US counterparts on a decommissioned U.S. Navy warship. Three RAF Typhoon jets, HMS Westminster, a Wildcat helicopter, a US P-8 Poseidon, F-15Es and USS Arleigh Burke used an array of high-powered weaponry for simulated attacks on the decommissioned frigate, USS Boone. The Typhoon jets launched Paveway IV precision-guided munitions with support from a Royal Navy Wildcat helicop

✈️🇬🇧 Exercise Cobra Warrior is underway 🇬🇧✈️ We welcome our NATO partners arriving to the UK ahead of Exercise Cobra Warrior, which begins next week. Aircraft and personnel from the German Air Force - Luftwaffe and the Royal Canadian Air Force have touched down in Lincolnshire, joining the Royal Air Force for the UK’s most complex air exercise. Next week, the Italian Air Force Aeronautica Militare and the United States Air Force United States Air Force are set to join the Exercise. Look out