CRUZEX V

Posted 10 November 2010
Photo by SMSgt. John Rohrer

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 140th Wing, the Colorado Air National Guard unit at Buckley ANGB near Denver, is flown at the far left of a formation with aircraft from other participating nations in the fifth annual Cruzeiro do Sul, or Southern Cross, exercise on 10 November 2010 over Natal AB, Brazil. The other aircraft in the formation include a French Rafale, a Brazilian AMX, a Chilean F-16, and a Uruguayan A-37 Dragonfly. The ten-day, multinational combined exercise, known as CRUZEX V, included eighty-two military aircraft and nearly 3,000 airmen from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Uruguay, and the US, along with observers from numerous other countries.

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