Fight's On! Putting it all Together (Part 1)

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

“Putting it All Together” takes concepts from the preceding episodes and explains large scale exercises, introducing assets beyond fighters and even beyond aviation assets to train for modern multi-domain joint operations in settings such as Air Wing Fallon, Red Flag, and the Army’s NTC and JRTC. Host and panel stories illustrate the objectives and processes of these events as they have evolved over time as well as further demonstrate the limitations of exclusively physical training ranges and expense of flight hours both in monetary and airframe costs. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0	FITSON is produced with commercial consideration from CUBIC Corporation.
0:04.3	Since 1972, CUBIC's ACMI has been a cornerstone of air combat range instrumentation.
0:10.9	CUBIC's LVC will expand that capability into the future across multi-domain operations.
0:17.0	Truth in training, CUBIC LVC, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
0:23.6	Welcome back to FITSON! Now that we've heard how postgraduate level aviators are made,
0:28.8	and learned about the opponents they train against, part one of today's episode,
0:33.0	putting it all together, we'll look at how all of that is combined to prepare squadrons
0:37.6	and airwings to deploy. We'll start with Red Flag, the seminal large-scale exercise known
0:42.8	around the world, and attended by not only American crews, but allied as well.
0:47.8	Our guest today is F-15 Strike Eagle-Wizzo Mike Paco-Banitas. Let's step to the jet because the
0:54.8	FITSON! We lost 70 aircraft to MIGS, but we lost 2,500 from surface to airfire.
1:08.0	A Russian S-400, which is an S-A21, it can cover every square inch of that airspace.
1:16.2	People are always watching, they're always listening, whether it's from the ground,
1:21.2	if you're out of the desert, if you're at a fishing trowler, over water, airspace, or even from space.
1:29.0	The aggressors are entering the airspace at this time.
1:35.1	Roger, tell you, I've got one man, he's in a left hand turn.
1:38.3	That's true, you're about to get good.
1:40.8	Box one on the M-5, nose down.
1:45.6	Turn in, FITSON.
1:47.7	Okay, welcome back. We're here with Mike Paco-Banitas, who is a former USAF F-15E Strike Eagle
1:56.1	weapon systems officer, Wizzo, welcome Paco.
1:58.8	Thanks, Scott. Thanks for having me.
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