Baltic Air Policing

Baltic Air Policing (English: Baltic Air Policing ) is the name of a NATO mission to air traffic control and airspace protection of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Description

Since the accession of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to NATO in 2004 to monitor and secure the airspace of air forces of several NATO members will be accepted, since the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian forces through cooperation in the Baltic Air Surveillance Network ( BALTNET ) can perform since 2006 aerial surveillance but are not due to the lack airborne weapon systems able to perform visual identification or air superiority, enforce by trapping or even crowd control.

Therefore fighter planes stationed at the airport Šiauliai in Lithuania for securing the airspace. The contingents typically include four aircraft and about 100 personnel man. At the beginning were contingent change takes place after three months, from September 1, 2009, this period was extended to four months.

So far, Belgium, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA, Poland, Turkey, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Romania and Portugal on Air Policing involved in the Baltics.

For aerial surveillance which NATO deployed until 2006 specialized staff, for example, soldiers from the Joint Operations Service of the Air Force, the air traffic control unit in Kaunas / Lithuania. Officers of the Baltic States were trained in Germany to Jägerleitoffizieren to continue aerial surveillance from 2006 independently.

NATO planes patrolling the airspace of the Baltic states and are based in Lithuania, will be stationed in Estonia due to the modernization of the Estonian Air Force Base Ämari on a rotating basis. Since October 2010, the country has an agreement with the Alliance that fighter jets of the allies can attend training flights in Ämari.

As a result of Krimkrise was in early 2014, the U.S. F-15C - rotting strengthened, including the provision of a tanker aircraft from Boeing KC -135 from the base RAF Mildenhall. UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond also announced on 17 March 2014 that the Royal Air Force would be able to strengthen the American Jets and the Polish Air Force from May through the posting of Euro Fighter Typhoon.

On March 17, 2014, the Russian Air Force announced the end of 2014 announced the deployment of a combat pilot regiment with 24 Su- 27m3 on the Air Force Base Baranovitchi in neighboring Belarus. So far there four Su- 27m3 and a AWACS aircraft are stationed on the type Beriev A-50.

As of 2018, the air forces of the Baltic States should be as far up that they can carry out aerial surveillance and assurance itself.

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