Published January 12,2024
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Turkish Air Forces “for the first time” carried out an arms management mission within the airspace of a NATO nation.
Türkiye despatched 4 F-16 fighter jets and 71 personnel in early December to the Borcea Airbase in Romania for NATO’s enhanced air policing mission that can run by means of March 31.
Türkiye’s E-7T Airborne Early Warning and Control platforms, which have been conducting missions in NATO airspace since 2016, and 4 F16s, gathered in Romanian airspace to hold out the mission.
“With the mission flight of our aircraft within the scope of NATO Assurance Measures, an arms control mission was carried out for the first time with our completely national elements in the airspace of a NATO country,” stated the Turkish National Defense Ministry.
Air policing is a peacetime mission to protect the safety of the alliance’s airspace. It is a collective process and entails the continual presence of fighter plane and crews, that are able to react rapidly to potential airspace violations, in response to NATO.
As part of the broad set of assurance measures launched following Russia’s unlawful annexation of Crimea in 2014, allies are offering further belongings to reinforce air policing alongside NATO’s jap borders, it added.
Source: www.anews.com.tr