Military Jets Photography: 2016

The exercise CJPRSC (Combined Joint Personnel Recovery Standardization Course) is a vital tool in military capability that demonstrates the will and the ability to rescue individuals (military and civilians) in whatever circumstances.
CJPRSC is a European Air Group project that has been running for 8 years and is designed to equip all participants with a thorough understanding op Personnel Recovery, their roles and tactics and techniques required for a successful outcome within a dynamic, multi-national environment.
Educate and train multinational Personnel recovery (PR) task force elements to plan and execute PR operations in accordance with NATO / EU standards, facilitated in live flying events.
This is to enhance the knowledge and proficiency required to plan and execute a PR mission in a non-permissive, international environment and to improve and streamline international co-operation with other European and NATO partners. The objective is to enhance proficiency in flying within a personal recovery task force (PRTF) as an element of a composite air Operation (CAMAO), working through operational documents and with tasking documentation of a JPRC and understand the tasking process. Another focus is to train in gathering reliable INTELL for safe PR operations.
The course is set up with three simple mindsets, to be current, on either procedures or equipment. This to compose a flexible and Adaptive task force within the CJPRSC.
The course consisted on flying several missions in different circumstances, day and night. After getting the introduction the second part of the program was the focus of the Rules of engagement in real life hostilities. The third and fourth day missions was to streamline CSAR and PR profiles, this was to ensure they could carry out the next three day missions with untrained personal. Like said there were also night missions with the emphasis on flight safety while flying in straight forward tactical scenarios.
Mission planning was another part of the course, and had to be aligned with standard COMOA procedures. The planning was done using visual aids by means of FALCON VIEW (planning software program) and planning boards. Parallel and distributed planning was carried out with eye on changing Task force composition, the use of extraction forces with a designated rescue mission commander (RMC).All planning had to be carried out without losing the rules of engagement, which is a vital part of combat nowadays.
On Florennes airbase a simulated forward arming and refueling point was set up to simulate these tasks like real combat. Supporting activity was carried out by 5 nations (GBR, ITA, BEL, NLD, and FRA) and was running for the sixth year already. All this was to ensure further development of FARP in the future and cross train ground crews on various types of aircraft.
CJPRC is the only course of its kind in Europe and this year there were 400 personnel from 11 countries: (BEL, DEU, ESP, FRA, GBR, HUN, ITA, NLD, POL, SWE, USA) taking part in the Course, executed by 23 aircraft. This will be the final CJPRSC to be conducted by the EAG prior to it being handed over to the EPRC.

F-16AM Belgian Air Force FA-97

EC725R2 French Air Force 2626/SD

CH-53GS German Air Force 84+67

Mi-24V Polish Army 741

F-16AM Belgian Air Force FA-127

SA342L-1 French Army 4207/GEC

SA342M French Army 3664/GAF

AB212AM Italian Air Force MM81149

AB212AM Italian Air Force MM81149, MM81152/9-52

AMX Italian Air Force MM7178/51-43

EC725R2 French Air Force 2802/SK

CH-53GS German Air Force 84+67, 84+30

CH-53GS German Air Force 84+30

Mi-24V Polish Army 739

Mi-24V Polish Army 741

AS332B1 Spanish Air Force 803-13/HT.21-01

AS332B1 Spanish Air Force 803-2/HT.21-2

W-3PL Polish Army 0811

W-3PL Polish Army 0820

After an absence of more than 15 years an airshow was organized once again at Kleine Brogel. The last airshow held at this airbase dates back to 1998. Since then times has changed drastically. Air Forces around Europe and the world were hit by mayor budget cutbacks forcing them to retire or reduce operational aircraft. This change of reduced and retired airframes was and is also noticeable at airshows because fewer and fewer aircraft were/and are able to attent.
But despite all these cutbacks the organization of The Belgian Air Force Days managed to attract some really nice aircraft to the show, both in the air and on the ground. The main themes for this airshow were 40 years of F-16 and 100 years of military aviation in Belgium.
On Friday the airbase organized a spotters day for the aviation enthusiasts . The weather was really beautiful and the organization provided enough space so that every spotter had a decent spot to take pictures and you could easily photograph the static display throughout the whole day. During the day we saw the arrivals from the last participating airplanes and there were also several rehearsals throughout the day. And during the spottersday the Belgian Air Force once again practiced their power demo. In the afternoon there were a couple of special formations flown by aircraft that were and still are in service within the Belgian Air Force.