Task Force 1
Einsatzgeschwader 1 - EG 1 - |
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The Operational Wing 1 (English: Air Force Operational Wing 1) was from August 1995 to August 2001, a limited-positioned temporally Tornado - Squadron of the Air Force and the early part of the support quota for the multinational Rapid Response Association of the United Nations to protect the UNPROFOR units in the former Yugoslavia and later actively involved in NATO military operations.
Structure and deployment
The Einsatzgeschwader 1 set up on June 30, 1995 consisted mainly of parts of the Fighter Bomber Wing 32 and the Reconnaissance Wing 51 "Immelmann", and was stationed on July 21, 1995 at the Piacenza military airfield , Italy . The squadron was set up under the command of the German NATO contingent AIRSOUTH in Vicenza under the leadership of Colonel Johann-Georg Dora , the first commodore of the squadron.
assignment
The at times up to fourteen Tornado Recce for aerial reconnaissance and ECR to suppress enemy air defenses were part of Operation Deliberate Force (1995), to support IFOR (1995–1996) and SFOR (1996–2001) as well as Operation Allied Force (1999 ) used.
The Tornado ECR protected the aircraft of the NATO allies against radar-guided air defense positions. To do this, they were the first to fly into the combat area in order to identify enemy ground-based air defenses and eliminate them with the help of anti-radar missiles.
The reconnaissance results of the Recce tornadoes helped, among other things, to make the planning and implementation of the missions more effective.
Statistics of use
Panavia tornado | UNPROFOR | IFOR | SFOR | total |
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Period | 8 / 1995-12 / 1995 | 12 / 1995-12 / 1996 | 12/1996–8/2001 | 1995-2001 |
ECR (electronic combat reconnaissance) | 490 | 1006 | 1063 | 2559 |
RECCE (optical combat reconnaissance) | 422 | 1087 | 3206 | 4715 |
total | 912 | 2093 | 4269 | 7274 |
Web links
- Official Air Force website
- Aerial photo from the war in Yugoslavia, taken by Einsatzgeschwader 1 (image train), approx. 1996 from the collection of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, via Museum-Digital.de