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    The Baltic air-policing mission is a NATO air defence Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) in order to guard the airspace above the three Baltic countries of Estonia...
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    Air Operations Centre manages NATO air policing north of the Alps, including by controlling the Baltic Air Policing operation. In March 2022 it was reported...
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    commissioned officers for the air force. The rank insignia for enlisted personnel for the air force. Baltic Air Policing Air defence battalion Airspace Surveillance...
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    Romania Begin 62nd Rotation Of Nato Baltic Air Policing". ac.nato.int. Retrieved 2 April 2023. "NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission rotations change over". kam...
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    Icelandic Air Policing Quick Reaction Alert "NATO Air Policing". "Belgium, Netherlands to take turns in policing BENELUX airspace". "Air Force". www.vtg...
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  • airBaltic, legally incorporated as AS Air Baltic Corporation, is the flag carrier of Latvia, with its head office on the grounds of Riga International...
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    intervals (see Baltic Air Policing). The Latvian Air Force was first founded during the Latvian War of Independence. On 7 June 1919 an Air Group was formed...
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    to police NATO airspace above the Benelux countries, above Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic States (Baltic Air Policing). There...
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    base has hosted NATO Baltic Air Policing patrols. On 30 April 2014 this mission began with the arrival of four Royal Danish Air Force F-16s. During 2015...
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    Šiauliai; Polish Air Force MiG-29s have also been deployed there in 2006. The RoAF will most probably perform again Baltic Air Policing in future. In 2012...
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    within Šiauliai Air Base which is a major military facility of the Lithuanian Air Force and one of the air bases of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission. The...
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    first joined the Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission from 1 May until 31 August 2009 when a four-Gripen contingent was based in Baltic region. The second...
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    implementation of crucial peacetime Air Defence capability – Baltic Air Policing. One important milestone will be the development of the air surveillance system to...
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    Royal Netherlands Air Force and then from the Belgian Air Component stationed in Malbork until August 2015 when Baltic Air Policing activities were reduced...
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    enhanced Air Policing in the region. This is the first time Lielvārde AIr Base has been used for Baltic Air Policing Ämari Air Base Šiauliai Air Base "Contact"...
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    Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71 "Richthofen" (category Fighter wings of the German Air Force)
    September 2008 the unit took part in NATO's Baltic Air Policing. The unit participated in a Baltic Air Policing deployment from 1 November 2009. In June...
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    December 2006 the Belgian Air Component deployed again under Baltic Air Policing mission four F-16 MLU aircraft to Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, to defend...
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    contribution to the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission Operation BILOXI - the UK contribution to the NATO Southern Air Policing mission Operation CABRIT...
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    Russian Air Force aircraft over the Baltic Sea. The Luftwaffe once again provided Baltic Air Policing at Ämari Air Base between 31 August 2020 and April...
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    forces of other NATO members. Baltic Air Policing was established by NATO allies since Lithuania and the other Baltic states do not have capabilities...
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    Spanish Mirage F1s were deployed to Lithuania as a part of NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission; during this deployment, they were scrambled twice to intercept...
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    201 Squadron (Portugal) (category Portuguese Air Force aircraft squadrons)
    201 Squadron (in Portuguese) PoAF participation in the Baltic Air Policing '07, Portuguese Air Force official website dedicated to the operation PoAF...
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    Lithuania, was Denmark's contribution to NATO's Operation Baltic Air Policing. The air policing mission was also undertaken by Danish F-16s in 2009, 2011...
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    2008, Luftwaffe F-4F Phantom II fighter planes took part in the Baltic Air Policing operation (of NATO), and these fighters were supplemented in 2009...
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    participated on NATO's Baltic Air Policing operation.[citation needed] Beginning from February 2006, eight Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16s, joined by...
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    53rd Fighter Squadron "Warhawks" (category Romanian Air Force)
    "Carpathian Vipers" detachment, were deployed to the Šiauliai Air Base as part of the Baltic Air Policing mission on 31 March 2023. During their deployment from...
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    NATO Peacekeepers) (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2004, 30 March - now: Baltic Air Policing (part of NATO QRA) (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) 2004, 7 August -...
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    month intervals, is based in Lithuania to cover all three Baltic states (see Baltic Air Policing). After joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...
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    hence "JAS") to replace the Saab 35 Draken and 37 Viggen in the Swedish Air Force. A new design from Saab was selected and developed as the JAS 39. The...
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  • December 2016. AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing. June 2016. p. 13. "RAF Typhoons return from Baltic Air Policing mission"...
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