European Air Group
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European Air Group |
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 Coat of arms of the European Air Group |
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| Lineup | 1997 |
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 Belgium Germany France Netherlands Italy Spain United Kingdom     
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High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire United Kingdom
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Improved capability through interoperability (English: Improved capability through interoperability ) |
| Web presence | European Air Group |
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| Director | General del Aire F. Javier García Arnaiz Spain
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The European Air Group (EAG) is a multinational cooperation between some European air forces founded in 1997 and is based in the Royal Air Force in High Wycombe, UK . Today it consists of seven participating countries ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Spain and the United Kingdom ). The partners work together to jointly promote the development and improvement of the capabilities of the air force. An important focus is the interoperability of air forces through state-of-the-art, multinational headquarters.
The partners conduct regular exercises in the air force, which are designated by VOLCANEX, followed by the year.
The current Director of the European Air Group is Air Chief Marshall Sir Andrew Pulford ( Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force ).
history
The forerunner of the EAG was the Franco-British European Air Group (FBEAG) founded in 1995 .
After a close cooperation between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the French Armée de l'air (FAF) arose during the first Iraq War ( Gulf War ) in 1991 and various subsequent missions in the Balkans , the need for coordination and improvement of cooperation emerged of the air force (already consciously recognized at the European level).
The European Air Group (EAG) emerged from this in 1997.
Members
As of 2015 the European Air Group has 7 members:
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Belgium (1997)
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Germany (1997)
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France (1997)
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Netherlands (1997)
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Italy (1997)
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Spain (1997)
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United Kingdom (1997)
partner
The two countries have a partnership with the European Air Group via VOLCANEX:
Associate
The three nations are associated:
Related facilities
On September 1, 2001, EAG founded the European Airlift Coordination Center (EACC) at Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands , the necessity of which emerged from the "European Airlift Study" of May 2000. From this, the European Airlift Center (EAC) developed, which was supplemented with a Sealift Coordination Center (SCC), also in Eindhoven.
In 2007 the two centers were merged to form the Movement Coordination Center Europe (MCCE), which currently comprises 15 nations (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom). The aim was to bundle all transport routes via rail, road, waterways and airways in one center and make them available to the 22 active member countries by 2010.
At the same time, in 2007, the construction of an expanded command center began to coordinate the large aircraft fleet of the countries. The implementation turned out to be difficult, however, and it was not until July 1, 2010 that the European Air Transport Command (EATC) was commissioned with the participation of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany to coordinate the joint air transport and air refueling forces .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.euroairgroup.org/project/director-european-air-group-handover-ceremony-11-january-2016/
- ↑ a b euroairgroup.org: Partner
- ↑ a b c d "L'EATC, Un pas de géant vers l'harmonisation du transport aérien militaire européen" ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Announcement from "Seconde Ligne de Défense", published by the "Défense interarmées et soutien logistique" (Central Logistics)
Web links
- Agreement on the European Air Group in the version of the amendment protocol dated June 16, 1999 ( Federal Law Gazette 2001 II pp. 343, 344 , in three languages)
- Second amendment protocol to the agreement ( Federal Law Gazette 2014 II pp. 1115, 1116 , in three languages)
- The history of the European Air Group at Luftwaffe.de
- European Air Group (English)
- MCC Europe (English)