Hornets away! 🇫🇮 4x Finnish Air Force 🇫🇮 F-18C Hornets taxi and take to the air at RAF Waddington

Exercise Cobra Warrior - on Tuesday 21st March 2023, at the beginning of the third week of exercises, I made another visit to catch some of the aircraft taking part in the exercise. I was fortunate to see four of the Finnish Air Force F-18s go up again, and film their return, but missed the 'exotic' Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s.
In this video we see four of the Finnish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornets - HN-422, HN-411, HN-424 & HN-438 - that departed Waddington on a sortie around 11.00, as they taxi to Runway 20 and blast off in quick succession. They all made sharp turns to the west, apparently heading for Wales rather than the usual North Sea ranges. If you're quick, you can see a bumble bee zoom by as HN-424 passes! Apologies for the gusts of wind again on the mic - it was a very breezy day - look at the hedge 😎 :)
The aircraft were taking part in Exercise Cobra Warrior - a biannual exercise run by the Royal Air Force designed to exercise participants in high intensity large force tactical training. This year's first exercise took place at RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby between the 6th & 24th of March, and involved the following aircraft:
Based at Waddington
🇧🇪 Belgian Air Force (Force Aérienne Belge) 🇧🇪
General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon (Viper) x6
FA-77
FA-102
FA-116 (349 sqd special tail)
FA-127
FA-134
FA-136 (display special scheme)
🇫🇮 Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) 🇫🇮
McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornet x6
HN-406
HN-411
HN-422
HN-424
HN-438
HN-448
🇮🇳 Indian Air Force 🇮🇳
Dassault Mirage 2000 x5
KF112 - 2000I
KF118 - 2000I
KT208 - 2000TI
KT211 - 2000TI
KT213 - 2000TI
Based at Coningsby
🈂 Royal Saudi Air Force 🈂
EF2000 Eurofighter Typhoon x6
1020 - T3
316 - FGR4
8019 - FGR4
1019 - FGR4
1022 - FGR4
8018 - FGR4
More F-18 Hornets, Mirage 2000s, Red Arrows and more to follow soon 😎 :)

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