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Our Adversary Air service, Sword, emulates enemy tactics, delivering cost-effective complexity and mass.

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Aggressor services for 4th and 5th gen operators

Sword emulates enemy tactics, delivering reliable, cost-effective complexity and mass. This is achieved while reducing the end user’s need to deploy their own valuable aircraft as an adversary.


Our experienced aggressor pilots execute realistic adversary tactics. We can run the entire Red game plan, whether for routine training or large force employment.


Integrating Sword within the wider Red Force ecosystem and operating integrated tactics with Electronic Warfare and Surface Threats magnifies the training value.

Sword emulates enemy tactics, delivering reliable, cost-effective complexity and mass. This is achieved while reducing the end user’s need to deploy their own valuable aircraft as an adversary.


Our experienced aggressor pilots execute realistic adversary tactics. We can run the entire Red game plan, whether for routine training or large force employment.


Integrating Sword within the wider Red Force ecosystem and operating integrated tactics with Electronic Warfare and Surface Threats magnifies the training value.

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Your focus? Your training.

Modern combat aircraft are expensive and require significant aircrew training hours. Notably, the higher unit cost of late 5th generation aircraft means fleets are smaller by necessity.


Contracting live Red Air adversary training to Draken frees air forces from the requirement to fly as their own adversaries, allowing the focus of their efforts to be on training as Blue.


It enables the use of an adversary force that is geared to one role and one role alone — acting as an aware bandit capable of punishing Blue’s mistakes in order to make the training more valuable.

Modern combat aircraft are expensive and require significant aircrew training hours. Notably, the higher unit cost of late 5th generation aircraft means fleets are smaller by necessity.


Contracting live Red Air adversary training to Draken frees air forces from the requirement to fly as their own adversaries, allowing the focus of their efforts to be on training as Blue.


It enables the use of an adversary force that is geared to one role and one role alone — acting as an aware bandit capable of punishing Blue’s mistakes in order to make the training more valuable.

Sword: key benefits

Experienced aggressors
All of our aggressor pilots are ex-military, many of them weapons instructors with thousands of hours of operational experience.

Meets the demand for mass
Sword delivers the scale required to meet the needs of smaller front line aircraft fleets and fewer aircrew. The cost and complexity of front-line fighter fleets make a contracted solution an effective option.

Red Force integration
Integrated adversary tactics that, in combination, significantly magnify the training value delivered.

Technology upgrades
Regular technology upgrades to our fleet ensure the threat Draken presents remains relevant and challenging.

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Training that embeds the essential knowledge

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