Episode Details

British and American top guns have China in their sights this week as they battle to win the most sophisticated shoot ‘em up ever played. But 22,000ft above the Nevada desert this was no video game, with billions of pounds worth of US and UK fighting tech pushed to their limits. Elite pilots are experiencing what it would be like to be caught up in a deadly conflict amid Beijing’s relentless ambition to dominate air, space and the cyber world. A British Voyager tanker flanked by four of our Typhoons, seamlessly integrates with US state of the art F35b fighters as their pilots battle to win Exercise Red Flag. Photography of the fifth-generation stealth fighters was banned during “the world’s largest, most realistic combat training event” but The Sun watched from the cockpit. The yearly wargaming exercise is not a drill or a rehearsal of an operation, but a live simulated battle against the West’s greatest adversaries.

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