Portugal took over NATO’s BAP mission from Spain Posted on May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 by alert5 Spain handed over NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission to Portugal during a ceremony at Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania. The Portuguese Air Force is sending four F-16s and 90 personnel for this rotation. Related posts (Automatically Generated): Italian Eurofighters, KC-767 visit Lithuania Hungary takes over lead role in Baltic Air Policing Belgian F-16s arrived in Lithuania for Baltic Air-Policing Mission CF-18s in Romania will relocate to Lithuania for NATO Baltic air policing mission RAF took over augmented NATO BAP mission from Belgium Canadian Air Task Force begins Baltic Air Policing mission