One of the Air Force's F-16 aggressor jets will get the Russian Su-57 stealth jet's paint scheme

A rendering of what the new paint scheme will look like on the F-16. 57th Wing Commander/Facebook - Cropped

David Cenciotti, The Aviationist

Eye-catching paint schemes which make fighter planes similar to their Russian counterparts have become a distinguishing feature of US Aggressors and Adversary jets.

Indeed, the Aggressors Squadrons F-16s (and, previously, until the 65th Aggressor Squadron was disbanded, their F-15s too) sport liveries that replicate the paint schemes, markings and insignas of their near peer adversaries, so that pilots in training who come within visual range of these adversary jets get the same sight they would see if they were engaging an actual threat.

Even if they are said to "replicate a capability of various aircraft platforms to train our blue forces on how adversaries will employ them in combat" rather than a certain country's adversary, it's pretty obvious that some famous "splinter" patterns worn by Nellis AFB's Aggressors as well as more "traditional" camouflages, like the one applied to US Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets in the last years, are inspired by Russian Air Force and Navy aircraft.......continue reading: HERE

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