Category: Air Force

The United States will send six additional F-15s and one KC-135 to augment NATO’s air policing mission in the Baltics.
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Norway has decided against relocating its F-16s from Bodø to Evenes. Plans to move the Norwegian Air Force Operative Command from Rygge to Bodø has been postponed until 2020 as well.

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F-15E crews from Royal Air Force Lakenheath have completed a joint exercise with HAF’s 343rd Squadron on the Greek island of Crete.

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Turkey scrambled eight F-16 fighters to intercept a Russian Il-20 plane after the Russian plane began flying parallel to Turkish airspace.

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Sweden has boosted the air defense on the island of Gotland due to an impeding large-scale Russian military exercise in the region.

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