The specialist RAF 'enemy' unit using Soviet-era missile systems
2,540To best prepare for an aggressor, allied aircraft must learn to evade threats from both the air and the ground.
The job of playing the enemy on land falls to the 'Threat Emitter Team' – a specialist unit normally based at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria, who are playing the 'bad guys' with the use of their two Soviet-era missile systems.
Together with the US and the Germans, they have been hiding in forests in northern Sweden, creating the enemy 'Red Force' during Exercise Arctic Challenge.
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