The German Deployable Control and Reporting Centre (DCRC), call sign Red Hawk, established operational readiness and will augment NATO command and control arrangements in the Baltic Sea region.
The Baltic Air Policing mission is one example of NATO’s regional security arrangements. For 20 years, Allies have collectively worked together to preserve the integrity of the airspace above Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Belgian Air Force has taken over the key for the Baltic airspace in a ceremony on 30 November and leads the 64th rotation of NATO fighter squadrons safeguarding the skies above Estonia Latvia and Lithuania.
RAF personnel have returned to the UK after leading NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission in Estonia for four months, during which pilots intercepted 50 Russian aircraft.
Italian Eurofighters – after an 8-month deployment for the NATO enhanced Air Policing mission in Romania – will be securing skies above Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
RAF Typhoons have been exercising alongside German Air Force Eurofighters, Portuguese and Romanian F16s and Finnish F18s over the skies of the Baltic nations.
Typhoon fighter jets from the RAF and Luftwaffe have conducted a joint mission to intercept three Russian aircraft flying over the Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea.
Two Romanian F-16 fighter jets from NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission launched to identify and escort two Russian Suhoi Su-27 Flanker fighters.
Two Portuguese F-16 fighter jets from NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission launched from Šiauliai, Lithuania, to identify and escort an IL-76 Russian military aircraft.
