In the last 24 hours the Eurofighters of the Italian Air Force deployed in the 4th Wing Task Force, operating in the Polish base of Malbork, have carried out a double intercept of Russian aircraft in the Baltic Sea. The alarm, launched by the NATO command center based in Uedem (Germany), was triggered yesterday and today by an unidentified aircraft flying over the international waters of the Baltic Sea. Once the aircraft were identified, the Italian F-2000s returned to the Malbork base.
It is the second time that an Italian contingent has been used in Poland in Enhanced Air Policing (eAP) operations, the NATO-led collective defense mission. Air Policing activity has been conducted since peacetime and consists of the continuous surveillance of the integrity of NATO airspace as well as the identification of any violations, in response to which enforcement actions are triggered, such as, for example, take-off rapid movement of fighter-interceptor aircraft, which in technical terms is defined as "scramble".
(Unioneonline/D)