Spain to deploy EF-18s to Baltic for the first time

The Spanish Air Force has been scheduled to take over the NATO Baltic Air Policing from German Eurofighters in Ämari, Estonia from April.

Spanish Hornet (10409626133)
By Javier Rodríguez from Palma de Mallorca, España (Spanish Hornet) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

This will be the first time Spanish Hornets are participating. Previously, Spain dispatched its Mirage F1s and Eurofighters.