http://um.dk/en/news/newsdisplaypage/?n ... a2bc61c16c
Denmark deploys four F-16 fighters to safeguard the airspace of Iceland
Denmark’s contribution to Iceland Peacetime Preparedness Needs (IPPN) consists of four F-16 fighters and approximately 60 soldiers.
It complements the current Danish contributions to NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) in Estonia (approx. 200 soldiers throughout 2018)
as well as Baltic Air Policing (BAP).
As for BAP the Danish F-16 fighters operate from a base in Lithuania until the beginning of May 2018.
Denmark was one of the first members to contribute to NATO’s air policing of the airspace of Iceland
and has on three previous occasions contributed to the mission, most recently in 2015.
This time the Danish F-16 fighters are scheduled for a deployment of approximately two weeks in April 2018.
https://ac.nato.int/archive/2018/denmar ... ss-mission
Feb 22, 2018
The Royal Danish Air Force will deploy
a detachment of F-16 fighter jets and approximately 60 personnel to Iceland in April
to execute NATO’s Airborne Surveillance and Interception Capabilities
to meet Iceland's Peacetime Preparedness Needs.
Air Policing over Iceland is a well-known mission to the Royal Danish Air Force,
as their F-16 jets have previously deployed there in 2009, 2010 and 2015.
"We look forward to take on another deployment with a mission that is very similar to the one
Danish F-16s perform on a daily basis to safeguard the Danish airspace
and currently also in the Baltic states," says Lieutenant Colonel Martin B Nielsen,
Director of International Air Operations at Defence Command Denmark.
At present, four Royal Danish Air Force F-16 jets are leading NATO’s Baltic Air Policing out of Šiauliai, Lithuania,
safeguarding the skies over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
together with an augmenting detachment of Italian Air Force Eurofighters Typhoon flying out of Estonia.
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