Turkish F-16 fighter plane at the moment conducting NATO’s enhanced Air Policing in Malbork, Poland, carried out aerial manoeuvres with a Polish Air Power C-295M Casa transport plane on August 26 to fine-tune their abilities and honing their capabilities via Allied cooperation. The Polish C-295M, with a dozen of worldwide journalists on board, took off from Malbork, Poland, to hitch the aerial coaching session of Turkish fighter jets within the skies above japanese Poland. The worldwide photographers had the possibility to see and doc first-hand the precision and professionalism concerned in Allied aerial operations.
“We recognize this nice alternative to fly with our Polish colleagues and to follow precision manoeuvres, formation flying and escort procedures. It’s a problem to plan, coordinate and execute such an exercise that advantages my pilots and their Polish counterparts. They’ve the possibility to coach and train procedures for mixed employment in help of the Alliance’s mission to supply deterrence, defence and safety,” mentioned Colonel Ahmet Çandir, the Detachment Commander of 80 Turkish Air Power members at Malbork augmenting NATO’s Air Policing mission within the Baltic area.
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“Workforce Malbork has a wonderful monitor file of contributing to NATO’s Air Policing. Since 2014, we have now hosted Allied fighter detachments from France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and now Turkey supporting NATO Assurance Measures within the area,” mentioned Lieutenant Colonel Jerzy Goleniowski, Deputy Base Commander at Malbork. “Polish MiG-29 from Malbork had been deployed to the Baltic Air Policing mission in Lithuania, the place we benefited from receiving host nation help. It’s nice to see that we at the moment are constructing on our expertise that has enabled us to embed and help fighter detachments in Poland,” he added.
Since mid-August 4 Turkish F-16 fighters have been deployed at Malbork demonstrating NATO cohesion and integration with the Polish Air Power MiG-29 fighters on the base. After conducting aerial drills, the Turkish fighters escorted the C-295M again to Malbork. They carried out a formation overflight of the bottom and safely landed earlier than it returned to its residence base at Krakow. Till mid-September, the Turkish F-16 detachment will proceed their NATO mission at Malbork. They constantly contribute to secure guarding Allied skies within the area whereas the 80-strong workforce and their 4 jets are stationed right here. As soon as this deployment is completed, they’ll redeploy to Band?rma sixth Primary Jet Base within the northwest of Turkey.
