Air Policing Island

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Air Policing Iceland (English Icelandic Air Policing ) was the original name of a NATO mission to monitor and protect the airspace of Iceland . Since 2013, practice flights have generally been the primary goal of the relocations instead of air policing. The current name of the mission is Airborne Surveillance and Interception Capabilities as a contribution to Iceland's Peacetime Preparedness Needs (ASIC IPPN).

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An F-15 over Iceland (September 2010).
Czech pilot during Air Policing Island, JAS 39 Gripen

Iceland does have a Control and Reporting Center (CRC) and constantly creates an air situation report for the country; however, other NATO members are responsible for monitoring and securing the air space, as Iceland is not in a position to carry out aerial visual identification or to enforce air sovereignty itself (e.g. by intercepting or pushing away).

Until September 2006, the United States Air Force performed the air policing function. After their withdrawal, there were repeated penetrations by Russian military aircraft. As a result, the Icelandic government demanded support from NATO partners in the form of regular dispatches of fighter planes to Iceland. The first deployment took place in May 2008, and fighters are then stationed at Keflavík Air Base in southwest Iceland .

In contrast to Air Policing Baltic States , which is based on a permanent presence of NATO fighters in Šiauliai (Lithuania), the Icelandic government did not demand a permanent NATO presence in Keflavík. Instead, there were initially an average of three postings per year, each lasting around two to three weeks. The first deployment of NATO fighters began on May 5, 2008, when four French Mirage 2000 patrols over Iceland. The jet fighters returned to France on June 30th. A planned deployment of four British Typhoon F2 Eurofighters failed in December 2008 due to a political conflict between Iceland and Great Britain. Poland also canceled a planned contribution with its F-16s to the alarm riot in 2010 due to the consequences of the financial crisis . Fighter jets stationed in Iceland are supported by NATO Boeing E-3 Entry AWACS aircraft, which complement the Icelandic air traffic control agency .

Contingents

date Country / armed forces Aircraft type
May 5 - June 30, 2008 FranceFrance Armée de l'air Mirage 2000C
September 2008 United StatesUnited States United States Air Force F-15C Eagle
March 8-29, 2010 DenmarkDenmark Danish Air Force F-16A MLU Fighting Falcon
June 1st - 25th, 2010 GermanyGermany air force F-4F Phantom II (JG71)
September 6-24, 2010 United StatesUnited States United States Air Force F-15C Eagle
March 28 - April 30, 2011 CanadaCanada Canadian Forces Air Command CF-18 Hornet
March 8-28, 2012 GermanyGermany air force F-4F Phantom II (JG71)
August 7th - September 20th, 2012 PortugalPortugal Força Aérea Portuguesa F-16A MLU Fighting Falcon
March 18 - April 28, 2013 CanadaCanada Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet
June 10 - July 8, 2013 ItalyItaly Aeronautica Militare F-2000A Typhoon
February 3-21, 2014 NorwayNorway Luftforsvaret F-16A MLU Fighting Falcon
May 16 - June 6, 2014 United StatesUnited States United States Air Force F-15C Eagle
October 10 - December 3, 2014 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Air Force JAS 39C / D Gripen
April 13 - May 20, 2015 United StatesUnited States United States Air Force F-15C Eagle
July 20 - August 29, 2015 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Air Force JAS 39 C / D Gripen
August 31 - October 2, 2015 DenmarkDenmark Danish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon
April 4-28, 2016 United StatesUnited States Air National Guard F-15C Eagle
May 30, 2016 - ?? NorwayNorway Luftforsvaret F-16A MLU Fighting Falcon
September 29th - early November 2016 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Air Force JAS 39 C / D Gripen
March 17th - mid April 2017 ItalyItaly Aeronautica Militare F-2000A Typhoon
April 11th - end of April 2018 DenmarkDenmark Danish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon
August 6 - September ?? 2018 United StatesUnited States United States Air Forces in Europe F-15C Eagle
March 18 - April 2019 ItalyItaly Aeronautica Militare F-2000A Typhoon
August 2019 United StatesUnited States United States Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon
October 2 - November 12, 2019 ItalyItaly Aeronautica Militare F-35A Lightning II
November 14 - December 10, 2019 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Royal Air Force Typhoon
February 21 - March 2020 NorwayNorway Luftforsvaret F-35A Lightning II
June 9 - July 2020 ItalyItaly Aeronautica Militare F-35A Lightning II

In addition to the NATO member Norway as the lead nation, Sweden and Finland supported the trinational, Nordic mission in 2014 with JAS 39C / D Gripen and F / A-18 C / D under the name Iceland Air Meet 2014 as part of the Peacetime Preparedness Needs .

Web links

  • [Information on the SHAPE homepage of NATO]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b luftwaffe.de: Protection of Icelandic airspace 2.0
  2. ^ French Air Force in Iceland .
  3. ↑ PDF document, 169 kB .
  4. ↑ Air international .
  5. ↑ UK cancels Typhoon's Icelandic air policing duty in a report by Flight Global
  6. ↑ Bartosz Glowacki: Polish military continues expeditionary focus , June 10, 2009 .
  7. ^ Air Policing, 2010
  8. ↑ a b worldcat.org: Air international. (Journal, 1974) , accessed January 21, 2011
  9. ↑ airn.nato.int: Headquarters Allied Air Command Ramstein - News Release 0210 ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on January 21, 2011
  10. ↑ airn.nato.int: Headquarters Allied Air Command Ramstein - News Release 0210 ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on January 21, 2011
  11. ↑ luftwaffe.de: Luftwaffe takes over protection of the Icelandic airspace for the first time , accessed on January 21, 2011
  12. ↑ lakenheath.af.mil: 493rd EFS stands up in Iceland ( Memento from September 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on January 21, 2011
  13. ↑ Czech Gripens Take Up Icelandic Air Policing . In: Air Forces Monthly . No. 9 . Key Publishing, September 2015, ISSN  0306-5634 , p. 12 .
  14. ↑ 4x F16 coming - Royal Danish Air Force , Icelandreview, August 28, 2015
  15. ↑ US ANG F-15C fighters in Iceland , NATO HQ AIRCOM , April 14, 2016
  16. ^ Norwegian F-16 fighters in Iceland , NATO HQ AIRCOM, June 1, 2016
  17. ↑ Icelandic NATO Mission accomplished by Czech Gripen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.airn.nato.int   , NATO HQ AIRCOM, November 7, 2016
  18. ↑ Italy deploys Eurofighter to Iceland for routine NATO deployment , NATO HQ AIRCOM, March 23, 2017
  19. ^ Royal Danish Air Force safeguards Icelandic Airspace , NATO HQ AIRCOM, April 20, 2018
  20. ↑ United States Air Force begins NATO mission in Iceland, UK Defense Journal, August 5, 2018
  21. ↑ Italy begins Typhoon deployment to Iceland, James, March 19, 2019
  22. ↑ US Air Force F-16 jets ready to take over Icelandic Air Policing mission , UK Defense Journal, August 6, 2019
  23. ^ Italian F-35 jets return from NATO Icelandic patrol , UK Defense Journal, November 12, 2019
  24. ^ British Typhoon jets deploy to patrol Icelandic skies , UK Defense Journal, November 14, 2019
  25. ↑ Iceland Thanks RAF for NATO Air Policing Mission , RAF News, December 10, 2019
  26. ^ Norwegian F-35 jets land in Iceland for NATO air policing mission , UK Defense Journal, February 21, 2020
  27. ^ Italian F-35 jets return from NATO Icelandic patrol , NATO Allied Air Command, June 9, 2020