[4K] Exercise Cobra Warrior 23-1 gets under way! | RAF Waddington

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 C-130H 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 close-up landing shots. 0:00 - RSAF1322 C-130H taxi & departure 3:18 - 2x Mirage M.2000 taxi (MERCURY73 flt) 4:18 - 2x F-16 (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 F-16 (MACE03 flt) taxi & departure 11:24 - 4x F/A-18 (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 F-16AM Fighting Falcon: MACE01 - FA-136 MACE02 - FA-134 MACE03 - FA-77 MACE04 - FA-102 Finnish Air Force F/A-18C Hornet LYNX21 - HN-411 LYNX22 - HN-422 LYNX23 - HN438 LYNX24 - HN448 Don't forget to check out my other social media sites: ► INSTAGRAM: @aviation_highlights ► TWITTER: @av_highlights ► TIKTOK: @aviationhighlights ► FACEBOOK:   / aviahighlights   Copyright © Aviation Highlights 2023