Two Italian Eurofighters, deployed in Poland as part of NATO’s “air policing” device, took off twice to intercept Russian jets approaching Alliance airspace.
Twice in two days two Italian Eurofighters deployed in Poland As part of the NATO “Air Policing” device, they launched to intercept Russian jets approaching Alliance airspace. Announcing is the same Aeronautics on Twitter.
Yesterday, Wednesday, September 21, the order to “scramble” or the order to take off immediately – so it is announced – was issued by the Malbork base for the task force “Air White Eagle” for the Presence of Russian jets in the border area. Something similar happened two days ago. In both cases, at the end of the activity, during which no overruns by the Moscow plane were recorded, the fighters returned to base.
“And the 4th scramble ordered by NATO to the Air Force in the last 4 days for the presence of Russian jets near the border area,” it said on Twitter. In a very delicate context like the current one, the operational activity that Air Force pilots carry out day and night in support of the Polish Air Force is fundamental. More than 6,500 men and women of the armed forces and carabinieri are deployed in 38 missions in 20 countries around the world: In Poland, a task force was deployed on Eurofighter “Typhoon” to defend the airspace of the alliance.
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IS maximum alert in the sky these days. In the last few hours, Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas also stated that “since the Russian military mobilization will also take place near our borders”, in the Kaliningrad region, “the Lithuanian rapid reaction force is in a high state of alert to resist any provocation from Russia impede “.