U.S. Air Force Just Conduct Massive Combat Readiness with 52 F-35 Stealth Fighters

Personnel from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings at Hill Air Force Base in Utah conducted a combat power exercise on Monday with an eye-popping 52 F-35A fighters — an exercise that included an impressive "elephant walk" of the assembled fifth-generation aircraft down a runway.

The main function of these exercises, according to the Air Force, is to test readiness "in the areas of personnel accountability, aircraft generation, ground operations, flight operations, and combat capability against air and ground targets," namely by conducting multiple takeoffs in rapid succession.

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