Red Flag is an exercise held in three to four cycles each year which aims to provide realistic combat simulations for American and allied air crews. Half of those simulations come at night, and when the combat jets soar through the air, the resulting timelapse video, like this one posted at , or, are beautiful.

The video up top was shot by photographer Eric Bowen on Coyote Summit, just south of Rachel, Nevada, and features everything from used for combat search and rescue. When shot together over time streaking across the that takes up a huge chunk of the desolate southern Nevada desert, they aircraft look damn pretty.

This photo, published as part of Airman Magazine's expose on aggressors, shows an aggressor air…

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