---
name: Sinai - Exercise Bright Star
theater: Sinai
authors: Starfire
recommended_player_faction: Bluefor Modern
recommended_enemy_faction: Egypt 2000s
description:
  <p>For over 4 decades, the United States and Egypt have run a series of
  biannual joint military exercises called Bright Star. Over the years, the
  number of participating countries has grown substantially. Exercise Bright
  Star 2025 boasts 8 participant nations and 14 observer nations. The United
  States and a portion of the exercise coalition will play the part of a
  fictional hostile nation dubbed Orangeland, staging a mock invasion against
  Cairo. Israel, having for the first time accepted the invitation to observe,
  is hosting the aggressor faction of the exercise coalition at its
  airfields.</p>
miz: exercise_bright_star.miz
performance: 1
recommended_start_date: 2025-09-01
version: "11.0"
squadrons:
  Blue CV-1:
    - primary: SEAD
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - F/A-18C Hornet (Lot 20)
      size: 24
    - primary: AEW&C
      aircraft:
        - E-2C Hawkeye
      size: 2
    - primary: Refueling
      aircraft:
        - S-3B Tanker
      size: 2
    - primary: Air Assault
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - SH-60B Seahawk
      size: 2
  # Hatzerim (141)
  7:
    - primary: Escort
      secondary: air-to-air
      aircraft:
        - F-15C Eagle
      size: 20
    - primary: OCA/Runway
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - F-15E Strike Eagle (Suite 4+)
      size: 8
    - primary: Strike
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - F-15E Strike Eagle
      size: 8
    - primary: DEAD
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - F-16CM Fighting Falcon (Block 50)
      size: 20
    - primary: BAI
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - JF-17 Thunder
      size: 16
    - primary: BARCAP
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - Mirage 2000C
      size: 12
  # Kedem
  12:
    - primary: Transport
      aircraft:
        - CH-47D
      size: 20
    - primary: Air Assault
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - UH-1H Iroquois
      size: 4
  # Nevatim (106)
  8:
    - primary: AEW&C
      aircraft:
        - E-3A
      size: 2
    - primary: Refueling
      aircraft:
        - KC-135 Stratotanker
      size: 1
    - primary: Refueling
      aircraft:
        - KC-135 Stratotanker MPRS
      size: 1
    - primary: CAS
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - A-10C Thunderbolt II (Suite 7)
      size: 8
  # Melez (30)
  5:
    - primary: CAS
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - Ka-50 Hokum (Blackshark 3)
      size: 4
    - primary: TARCAP
      secondary: air-to-air
      aircraft:
        - Mirage 2000C
      size: 12
    - primary: Strike
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - Mirage 2000C
      size: 12
  # Wadi al Jandali (72)
  13:
    - primary: AEW&C
      aircraft:
        - E-2C Hawkeye
      size: 2
    - primary: SEAD
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - F-16CM Fighting Falcon (Block 50)
      size: 20
    - primary: DEAD
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - F-16CM Fighting Falcon (Block 50)
      size: 20
    - primary: Air Assault
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - Mi-24P Hind-F
      size: 4
    - primary: OCA/Aircraft
      secondary: air-to-ground
      aircraft:
        - SA 342L Gazelle
      size: 4
  # Cairo West (95)
  18:
    - primary: Transport
      aircraft:
        - C-130
      size: 8
    - primary: Escort
      secondary: air-to-air
      aircraft:
        - MiG-29S Fulcrum-C
      size: 20
    - primary: BARCAP
      secondary: any
      aircraft:
        - J-7B
      size: 20