Meet the Thunder Tigers: four operational F-16 pilots of 31 “Tiger” Squadron, based in Kleine-Brogel.
Led by “TOBI”, they will show you their all during the Belgian Air Force Days.
Thunder Tigers @ BAF days 2023
Dream Viper, Vrieske rolls out the new demo season
Tons of experience, full of energy, sense of precision, always ready and deployable… in short, a very good profile to represent our Air Force as a demo pilot.
Vrieske clocks 5K hours on the Viper
Superlatives are too short to describe what an incredible milestone ‘Vrieske’ has reached. His 5,000th flight hour in an F-16. That’s more than 208 full days, in which Vrieske flew around in such a fantastic fighter plane. ‘Vrieske’, congratulations on this achievement and thank you for showing us what it means to be a real ‘Tiger’!
XTM exercise part cancelled
Due to COVID-19 measures in place one month prior to startex, the exercise part of the XTM21 has been cancelled. Nevertheless we are thrilled to keep most of our the social activities such as TGIF, formal dinner and Tiger Games XTM over the weekend.
2021 XTM X-Tiger ready to prowl the skies
On Friday the 16th of July at 10 am, the freshly painted FA-136 “X-Tiger” took the skies. A design created by Johan Wolfs and executed by the KeeBee paintshop and plotter section. An XT-ROAR-DINARY paint for an extraordinary event, our 2021 XTM X-Tiger is now ready to prowl the skies.
Baltic Air Policing 2020
At the end of February 2020, under the leadership of the former CO of 31 SQN, LtKol Vl Vanophem ‘Sam’, BAP20-03 started the NATO mission Baltic Air Policing, stationed at Siauliai Airbase – Lithuania.
This mission lasts 8 months and is split into 4 periods, each time a completely new detachment deploys.
XTM Joint Jubilee 2021
31SQN is proud to announce an XT-roar-dinary Tiger Event, called ‘XTM Joint Jubilee 2021’.
FA-116 Tigertail rollout
4th of April 2018, on a typical gloomy grey and dull Belgian afternoon, 31 Squadron presented its new livery.
The design of FA-116 was made by Peter Verheyen and Johan Wolfs from Arte International, who are slowly reaching the ’50’ mark with their total amount of painted Jets.
Tiger 31, cleared hot – Operation Desert Falcon
Since the beginning of November, 31 Tiger Squadron is deployed again in the Middle-East, in order to execute combat operations against Daesh in both Iraq and Syria. For the moment, we are not the only Tigers in the region, since we have our fellow Tigers of 11F and 02/030 stationed just 50 Km from our Belgian DOB (Deployment Operating Base).