Northern Lightning. Goal with 60 aircraft total: To integrate fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft for combat.
Annual military exercise in Wisconsin skies
CAMP DOUGLAS, Wis. – War planes from military exercises are expected in the air above southern Wisconsin starting Monday, including as far west as Trempealeau County on the Mississippi Tuver. The annual Northern Lightning exercises run two weeks with 1,000 participants and 60 Air Force, Marine and National Guard aircraft. These include Minnesota Air Guard units. The base of operations is Volk Field at Camp Douglas with its 9,000-foot air strip. The airspace training corridor is 5 by 200 miles and nine miles up.