A Royal Air Force A400M Atlas aircraft from the UK’s Air Mobility Force has deployed to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam to participate in Exercise Mobility Guardian, a U.S.-led multinational training initiative, according to a press release.
The exercise involves joint forceable entry, humanitarian aid operations, and aeromedical evacuation in contested environments. The RAF’s participation focuses on complex air mobility tasks, working alongside U.S. and other allied forces to enhance interoperability and tactical readiness.
RAF personnel have already completed missions delivering freight to remote airstrips and conducting aeromedical evacuations. The exercise is structured to increase in complexity, with upcoming phases including precision airdrops and mass casualty scenarios.
Exercise Mobility Guardian is part of a broader campaign involving over 400 aircraft and 12,000 personnel operating across 50 global locations. The RAF’s contribution includes overseas engineering support for sustained operations and participation in joint activities such as search and rescue and maritime recovery.
The RAF outlined that its operations in Guam also include day and night tactical landings, container delivery system airdrops using U.S.-built equipment, and medical evacuation sorties under non-permissive conditions. These missions, they add, reflect the service’s emphasis on global reach and the ability to operate effectively in demanding, multinational environments.
Gaza might be a better place, just saying,
Impractical. There’s a big difference between landing on a remote airstrip and landing on something not remotely an airstrip. Gaza had a working airport for a short length of time before the 2nd Intifada. Ironically it was later renamed after the man who called for that uprising, Arafat, the man who liked to say no. After Arafat’s death and Israel’s withdarwal, there was talk between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of reopening it, but any chance of that disappeared with the arrival of Hamas, the killing of the PA in Gaza, and the kidnapping of Israelis.