Icelandic Air Policing

Iceland Air Policing (English: Icelandic Air Policing ) is the name of a NATO mission to monitor and protect the airspace of Iceland. Since 2013 form instead of the Air Policing in general practice flights the primary goal of linings.

Description

Although Iceland has a Control and Reporting Center (CRC ) and creates a permanent air situation picture for the country; but the monitoring and securing the airspace over take other NATO members, since Iceland is not able to perform flying or view identification (for example, by trapping or crowd control ) enforce the air sovereignty itself.

By September 2006, the United States Air Force took the air police mission true. After their departure, there were repeated penetration of Russian military aircraft. The Icelandic government then invited by the NATO partners support in the form of regular postings of fighter planes to Iceland. The first posting was in May 2008, fighters are then stationed at Keflavík Airport in southwest Iceland.

In contrast to the Baltic Air Policing, which is based on a permanent presence of NATO fighters in Šiauliai (Lithuania ), the Icelandic government demanded no permanent NATO presence in Keflavík. Instead, there is an average of three assignments per year, each of about two to three weeks duration. The first deployment of NATO fighter planes began on May 5, 2008, when four French Mirage 2000 flew their patrols over Iceland. The jet fighter returned on June 30, returned to France. A planned deployment of four British Euro Fighter Typhoon F2 failed in December 2008 at a political conflict between Iceland and the UK. Poland also said 2010 from a planned contribution with his F- 16 to the alarm rotting due to the impact of the financial crisis. Combat aircraft, which are stationed in Iceland, are supported by Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft of NATO, which complement the Icelandic airspace control authority.

Quotas

In addition to the NATO member Norway as a leading nation Sweden and Finland are planning the 2014 support with JAS 39C / D Gripen and F/A-18 C / D of the thus tri-national, Nordic use under the name of Iceland Air Meet 2014 as part of the NATO mission Peacetime Preparedness Needs.