In February this year, the Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) will, for the first time, participate in the NATO Iceland Air Policing mission. The Finnish deployment will consist of four F/A-18 Hornet fighters and about 50 […]
In the first week of September 2024, F-35 Lightning II of the United States Air Force and the Eurofighter EF-2000 of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) combat aircraft performed their first highway landing operations. That […]
Panavia PA-200 Tornado ECR (c/n 860, ´46+40´ of Luftwaffe / the German Air Force), taking-off for the COMAO mission during the NATO Tiger Meet 2024, Fliegerhorst Schleswig/Jagel, June 2024. Exactly fifty years ago, on 14th […]
As part of the international exercise BALTOPS 24, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) deployed a detachment of the US Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jets to Ronneby air base in Sweden. The Harrier […]
On 13th May 2024, a joint NATO airborne operation was executed in Romania. The parachute drop was part of exercise Swift Response 2024, one of multinational trainings within Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO´s largest collective defence […]
On 15th November 2023, NATO officially announced that the Alliance finally selected Boeing E-7A Wedgetail as its new Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) platform. The new aircraft should replace the existing but ageing fleet […]
10th August 2023 marked conclusion of German Air Force ´lean and mean´ exercise over Iceland. For two weeks, six Eurofighters from the 73rd Tactical Air Wing were deployed to Keflavik Air Base within a training […]
On 6th March, this year´s largest military training activity in Norway began. Within the exercise codenamed Joint Viking, the country´s armed forces, their allies and civilian partners will train on defending Norway. Joint Viking is […]
On 28th February this year, the Boeing company informed about receiving the United States Air Force contract for development a dedicated variant of E-7 Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft for the USAF. The E-7 […]
NATO authorities have decided to deploy its Boeing E-3A Sentry (also known as Airborne Warning and Control System – AWACS) surveillance aeroplanes to Bucharest, Romania. The aircraft are expected to arrive there on 17th January […]
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