Frag Out! Magazine
Issue link: https://fragout.uberflip.com/i/840553
"Ramstein Alloy" exercise with scenario including interception of aircraft flying without radio contact with flight control and SAR missions. Interesting "coincidence" was appearing of first US F-35 accompanied by RC-135 Rivet Joint. Another NATO country in the current deployment is Spain, which took over Amari Air Base from German crews. Eurofighters were deployed for eight months (crews and personnel were rotating after four months). Now, the hangars are occupied by Spanish Hornets from ALA15 (which is a member of NATO Tiger Association, same as Polish Baltic Air Policing de. It's the first time in the history of the operation, when two "tiger units" are operating together). The Combined Air Operations Centre in Uedem, Germany is now responsible for tactical and operational flights control plus the Alpha and Tango Scrambles. CAOC will direct scrambling flights toward unidentified aircraft which will appear in close proximity to NATO countries airspace. Usually, the Russian aircraft flying Currently, the host nation (Lithuania) is cooperating with augmenting nation (Estonia). ORLIK 7, the Polish military continent deployed to the operation consist of four F-16C fighters from 31.Tactical Air Base and 100 members of personnel. On 3rd May 2017, Poles took over responsibilities from Dutch deployment (it was probably the last mission of Dutch F-16s because they will be replaced with F-35s soon), which earlier replaced French deployment with Mirage 2000 fighters. The "final word" of 42nd rotation of NATO Baltic Air Policing was AVIATION