This video features all of the morning's launches from the first day of Exercise Cobra Warrior at RAF Waddington (06/03/2023). Exercise Cobra Warrior is the largest air exercise run by the Royal Air Force. It involves multiple nations' air forces (in this case, USA, Indian, Belgium, Finland, Saudi Arabia) collaborating together alongside the RAF in a series of "high intensity, large force, tactical warfighting operation" according to the Royal Air Forces' website.

This video also features a Royal Saudi Air Force C130H departure that was unable to take place last week due to leaking fluids when it taxiied. It was nice to see something large hold at D1 holding point prior to departing. The RSAF are involved in the exercise with six Eurofighter Typhoons at RAF Coningsby.

This was also the first day since the participating aircraft arrived, that Waddington had been active on Runway 20, rather than Runway 02. This allowed for some fantastic head on shots of the aircraft taxiing up to the runway as well as some closeup landing shots.

0:00 RSAF1322 C130H taxi & departure
3:18 2x Mirage M.2000 taxi (MERCURY73 flt)
4:18 2x F16 (MACE01 flt) taxiing behind the Mirages
4:45 MERCURY73 flt departure
6:29 MACE01 flt departure
8:11 2x Mirage M.2000 (MERCURY71) flt departure
9:30 2x F16 (MACE03 flt) taxi & departure
11:24 4x F/A18 (LYNX21 & LYNX23) flt taxi
13:16 LYNX21 & LYNX23 flts departures
16:17 MERCURY71 & MERCURY73 flts low approaches
16:56 MERCURY71 & MERCURY73 flts land
17:37 LYNX flts run and break
17:52 LYNX flts land
18:28 MACE flts land

Aircraft in video:

Royal Saudi Air Force:
RSAF1322 1622

Indian Air Force Dassault Mirage M.2000:
MERCURY71 KT213
MERCURY72 KF118
MERCURY73 KT208
MERCURY74 KT211

Belgian Air Component F16AM Fighting Falcon:
MACE01 FA136
MACE02 FA134
MACE03 FA77
MACE04 FA102

Finnish Air Force F/A18C Hornet
LYNX21 HN411
LYNX22 HN422
LYNX23 HN438
LYNX24 HN448

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