First ever live-fire training launched by NATO jets with Lithuanian special forces

On Thursday and Friday, for the first time since the launch of NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States in 2004, a live-fire training takes place conducted by the current detachment – French airmen with the Rafale fighter jets, the Lithuanian Armed Forces reports.

The Joint Terminal Air Controllers (JTACs) of the Lithuanian Special Operations Forces are training at the Brigadier General Kazys Veverskis Training Area to minimise the time and maximize the precision of communication with fighter pilots to ensure accuracy and maximum damage and speed of air-to-ground strikes at the hostile force in support of tactical manoeuvres of ground units.