Israeli, German and Italian aircraft arrive for UK exercise

Cam, Yes it is a Vulcan. XM607 is the Squadron Gate Guard at Waddington, she was the first airframe that bombed the runway at Port Stanley during the Falklands War. Waddington was XM607s home base. As to your other question, The Israeli F-15 is landing on the runway (Speed brake deployed and Tyre smoke visible) but the camera position and long grass creates an optical illusion.

Puff of tyre smoke too, unless that’s some dodgy grass 😉

I’m assuming the Brits have contracted a private company to provide red adversary aircraft for this exercise. Like most professional adversary pilots they will do their best to simulate how a potential enemy would engage the blue forces. These exercises stress how aircrews work as a team to accomplish a set goal and has nothing to do with seeing who’s the best at ACM. That’s only Hollywood stuff.

The exercise is designed to replicate a realistic threat scenario. So shooting missiles at each other over distance and then closing for short range missiles depending if the pilot believes they have the advantage.
The opposing red team is partly made of 100 Sqn Hawks and Cobhams Falcon 20s. The Falcon 20s do all the beyond visual range (BVR) missile engagements and active jamming/spoofing, whilst the Hawks do the knife fighting. The Falcons can mimic pretty much any aircraft’s radar, missile and electronic countermeasures system. They are a very tough competitor and generally get a number of kills themselves. They portray the most credible training threat without firing missiles.
The Hawks are a really tough aircraft to dog fight against. The aircraft does not bleed off speed quickly when turning, like the bigger fighters. A lot of the time a Hawk can turn inside a larger fighter. The vectored thrust of a F22 will allow it to turn faster, but the Hawk will still have the sustained turning advantage, whilst the F22 will have bleed off most of its speed. allowing the Hawk to either disengage or keep continuing the turn.