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First intervention of the Mirage 2000 near the Baltic countries

NATO Air Policy 2014
(credit: DICOD)

(B2) The Mirage 2000 (*) which succeeded the Rafale on the Polish base of Malbork in Poland within the framework of the air surveillance of the Baltic countries intervened for the first time last Monday (June 9).

An Ilyouchine-20 discreetly

A " take-off order was given in order to identify an aircraft entering the NATO surveillance zones which did not meet all the criteria defined in the identification and classification rules “, indicates the General Staff of the armies (French). The intervention has identified an Ilyushin-20, a Russian reconnaissance aircraft ". " After checking all the missing criteria, the Mirages received the order to escort the aircraft to the edge of the zone, before giving the relay to Danish aircraft which are also on duty for NATO.

Fifteen interventions in 4 months in 2013

This type of mission is running we add in Paris. The French aircraft deployed in Lithuania, in the last “Baltic Air Policy” mission in 2013, thus conducted “ about fifteen in four months ».

(NGV)

(*) Are stationed in Malbork, 2 Mirage 2000-5 and 2 Mirage 2000 C.

 

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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