PICTURES: Poland completes third Baltic air policing spell

2. september 2010 20:34 | Defense

Flight Global

The Polish air force has completed its third period of providing air policing cover for Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with four RSK MiG-29s having returned to its Minsk Mazowiecki air base on 1 September.


Drawn from the 1st Tactical Air Squadron, the aircraft made around 160 flights totalling 220h from Lithuania's Siauliai air base during the "Orlik 3" detachment, which started on 30 April. This included one so-called "alpha" scramble, launched against a pair of Russian Sukhoi Su-24s.
 

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