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A new dormitory will be built at the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai to house foreign soldiers on short stays during redeployment, exercises and for the NATO air policing mission.
A Spanish NATO contingent is taking over the Baltic air policing mission from the military base near Šiauliai, Lithuania from Hungarian fighter jets on Thursday. Belgian jets will replace German jets in Estonia as part of the rotating mission over the Baltic States.
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry said that NATO jets patrolling airspace over the Baltic Countries scrambled 160 times to intercept Russian planes in 2015, up 14% on the previous year.
On 9-15 November, fighter aircraft of the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States performed one A-Scramble to intercept a foreign aircraft in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence reports.
On 19-25 October, fighter jets conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states performed four scrambles to intercept aircraft flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania said.
Between 5 and 11 October, NATO air policing fighter jets patrolling Baltic airspace identified and intercepted one IL-76 transport aircraft of the Russian Federation flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania reports.
On September 29-30, the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai is hosting the 22nd NATO-led Baltic Region Training Event (BRT XXII).
NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the air policing mission performed four scrambles last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation, flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
Hungarian fighter jets JAS-39 Gripen, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO's Baltic air policing mission, were on Monday scrambled from Šiauliai to accompany a Russian reconnaissance plane.
Hungary's JAS-39 Gripen fighter-jets serving in the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled from the Lithuanian Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Tuesday to identify and accompany two Russian war planes.
Fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the NATO air policing mission performed one scramble last week to identify and intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
Last week, NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO's Baltic air policing mission were scrambled five times to intercept Russian military aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.
The NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states was cut down from September because more than half of the fighter-jets assigned to the mission had been standing idle for the past six months, says the head of the Alliance's Military Committee General Petr Pavel.
Outgoing Norwegian fighter jets, which were stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO's Baltic air policing missions, were scrambled on Monday, their last day of service, to intercept two Russian planes flying over the Baltic Sea.
Troops of the Hungarian Air Forces are taking over NATO's Baltic air-policing mission for the first time, with an official contingent changeover ceremony involving Lithuanian and the Hungarian defence ministers planned at the Lithuanian Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Monday.
NATO air policing fighter jets protecting the Baltic skies were scrambled five times last week to intercept aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic states, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.
When NATO confirmed last week that it was cutting the Baltic air policing mission in half - eight fighter jets will patrol the skies of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia instead of the current 16 - the reactions were varied.
Last Tuesday, NATO decided to reduce the number of fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the NATO air policing mission. The number of fighter jets is to be cut from 16 down to 8.
Russia has no reason to interpret the reduction of the number of NATO aircraft in the Baltics as a sign of NATO's weakness, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. The Alliance's attention to the Baltic states has not declined, since patrolling of the Baltic airspace is just one aspect o...