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Originally Posted by NH.Solar
The reason that you are hearing them so much now is because the new F22 Raptors are much louder than the F16s they are replacing. The fly out of both NJ and Burlington Vt National Guard centers to practice over the Sandwich range because the terrain is similar to what they may encounter in the mid-east. When you are hearing a lot of activity is usually indicates that there may be a new deployment coming up, and once that happens it will quiet down again for a couple of months.
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The Green Mountain Boys are replacing their F-16s with F-35s, not F-22s. Still loud, but a different aircraft.
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A few years ago I watched 2 flying over the lake doing maneuvers and shooting flares at each other.
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They weren't shooting flares at each other; the flares are used to decoy IR sensors on anti-air missiles.