Red Flag was born out of the Vietnam war, with the idea being to give pilots enough experience to make it through their first ten flights, statistically the most likely time for them to be shot down.
CHRIS WHEELER AT OLD TRAFFORD: It's 44 years since the biggest club in English football last fell at the first hurdle of both domestic cup competitions. Now it has happened again.
It feels like we wouldn't even know where to start because it's been so long. For two years we have got into bed together, read books or looked at phones, and then gone straight to sleep.
I was not shocked when Trump began pushing a 28-point peace deal that favours Russia. I wasn't even that surprised to learn it may have been written by the Russians.
Drones violating NATO airspace, anchors dragged across cables in the Baltic Sea, and now a Russian spy ship lurking off Britain's coast and shining lasers at our jets.
If Putin's dropping hints left, right and centre about terrifying super weapons, then you can bet your bottom dollar it's because he's trying to hide something.
If Putin's dropping hints left, right and centre about terrifying superweapons, then you can bet your bottom dollar it's because he's trying to hide something.