How NATO safeguards Icelandic and High North airspace
The Air Policing (AP) mission in Iceland is a peacetime mission, which is specific and unique to Iceland and aims at safeguarding NATO airspace in the High North.
The Air Policing (AP) mission in Iceland is a peacetime mission, which is specific and unique to Iceland and aims at safeguarding NATO airspace in the High North.
On 30 April, the defence ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden signed a document setting out their overall common vision for the development of Nordic defence cooperation up to 2030.
Norway is deploying four of is F-35 fighter jets to Iceland providing an interceptor capability for NATO’s air surveillance mission in Iceland.
Iceland as a member of NATO plays an important role in the organization’s security and defense efforts to protect its northern flank and to monitor and control maritime activity in the region.