NATO relieve their air assets in the Baltic, which could be reinforced with F-22
(Defensa.com) Coinciding with the end of August eight NATO bombers, Germans and Hungarians, have been deployed in separate foundations for the Baltic relieved of participating air forces in the so-called Baltic Air Policing (BAP) . This mission of NATO's main objective is the protection of the airspace of the three countries of the Alliance in the region (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) border with Russia, lacking interceptor devices.
Thus, Ämari airbase in Estonia, have been redeployed German fighter Eurofighter, which have given relief to many other devices of the same model with the RAF (Royal Air Force) was fulfilling the mission. This base is becoming almost an installation for such apparatus. If at the end of 2014, the German Luftwaffe Eurofighter were relieved by the Spanish Air Force and these, in turn, by the RAF said that during these four months have been at the forefront. With the advent of new German will be chained a full year with the presence of the Eurofighter in the Latvian facility, from which the flights of Russian aircraft from bases in the area of St. Petersburg are controlled, sometimes they skip air legislation.
Further south, in Siauliai (Lithuania) have it come four Saab JAS 39C Gripen Air Force of Hungary, giving relieved four Italian Eurofighter and F-16AM as many Norwegians. In the spring of 2014, following the initiated the crisis in Ukraine, NATO increased BAP 4 fighters to 16, and from September after restructuring the defense system in the area will go to said eight bombers, according to advance one NATO spokesman assigned to the mission in early August in Lithuania. What if maintained continuous deployments are devices USAF (United States Air Force) in Poland and to last July 10 was made public the presence of a dozen attack aircraft Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II the 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (354th EFS) at Lask Air Base, very close to the city Lodz.
Remember that these twelve A-10, over 300 members of the 355th Fighter Wing unit which depends the 354th EFS, arrived in Europe, initially to Germany, last February from Air Force Base Davis-Monthan (Arizona) for a deployment that ended with the return of the equipment to the United States on August 4. Similarly, from day 31, according to the Polish average G years Wielkopolski, said Polish base would welcome the deployment of four F-22A Raptor 95th Fighter Squadron, which from its base Tyndall (Florida), reached the German base in Spangdahlem on the 28th of August. Without leaving the Baltic scenario, another force of eight A-10 of the 303rd Fighter Squadron, 442nd Fighter Wing, a unit of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), which is based in Whiteman Air Force Base (Missouri), accompanied by 170 reservists arrived on August 22 to Ämari. The mission of this force of reservists is to conduct a training deployment in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve, with which Washington supports its NATO allies in Eastern Europe.
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