The U.S. Air Force Is Flexing Its Muscles (Think F-15s) Over the Baltics
Dave Majumdar [2]
The United States Air Force has deployed seven Boeing F-15C Eagle air superiority fighters from the 493rd Fighter Squadron to Lithuania as the service assumes control of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission. The U.S. Air Force is taking over the duty from the Polish air force for the next 120 days as part of a regular NATO rotation to patrol the skies over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia—all of which were once constituent republics of the Soviet Union before its 1991 collapse.
"I'm excited as a NATO air chief and I'm excited as a U.S. citizen to welcome the 493rd from the 48th Fighter Wing, an F-15C squadron, to serve the next rotation of Baltic air policing," Air Force Gen. Tod D. Wolters, commander of NATO Allied Air Command and U.S. Air Forces in Europe said.
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