Military Jets Photography: 2005 07 20 Kleine Brogel COMAO

Kleine Brogel, home of the 10th Tactical Wing, Belgian Armed Forces, hosted a large Operational Integration Exercise during July with the participation of seventy aircraft and almost two hundred and fifty aircrew. A spottersday was held on Wednesday 20 July.
The first jets that drew our attention when entering the base were four Romanian Air Force MiG-21s, a single Su-22UM-3K, in a attractive tiger colour scheme, and a CASA 295, both from the Polish Air Force. The tone of which caliber this spottersday was made of, was set immediately. And throughout the day the quality wouldn't slip back.
Unfortunately the Romanians and the Polish didn't fly in the COMAO. But there were some other very interesting participants in the form of two French Navy Rafale Ms together with four Super Etendards from 11F and 17F. Two other exotic aircraft came from Araxos, Greece, namely an A-7E and a TA-7C. Other aircrafts came from Danemark, Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland.
During the spottersday the organisers managed to attract some very nice visitors. Among them were a Canberra and a Jaguar from the RAF, a pair of Tucanos from the French Air Force, a F-4F from the Germans, a Cougar from the Netherlands Air Force as well a Mi-35 from the Czechs.
The day was filled with take-offs, landings and flypasts of the aircrafts participating in the DACT and the COMAO excercise, the visiting aircrafts espacially for the spotterday or from various aircraft in the vicinity, which included aircraft training for the National flypast in Brussels the next day.
All the organising staff from 10 Tactical Wing at Kleine Brogel should be applauded for organising such a fine spectacle.