Tactical Air Force Wing 73 "Steinhoff"

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Tactical Air Force Squadron 73 "Steinhoff"
- TaktLwG 73 "S" -
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Internal association badge

Internal association badge (coat of arms)
Lineup December 1, 1959,
reorganized on May 31, 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces air force air force
Strength approx. 872 soldiers and
250 civilian employees
Insinuation Air Force Command
Location Laage coat of arms.PNG Laage , air base
Web presence TaktLwG 73 "S"
guide
Commodore Colonel Joachim Kaschke
Aircraft
Fighter aircraft /
helicopter 		Eurofighter Typhoon

The Tactical Air Force Squadron 73 "Steinhoff" ( TaktLwG 73 "S" ), until September 30, 2013 Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff" (JG 73 "S"), is one of four Eurofighter squadrons of the German Air Force . It was the first Bundeswehr squadron to receive the Eurofighter as a new aircraft type in 2004 and is responsible for carrying out the course-related training of German and Austrian pilots on this type. The TaktLwG 73 "S" is stationed at the Laage air base south of Rostock.

Tactical Air Force Wing 73 "Steinhoff" (Germany)
Laage Air Base
Laage Air Base
Oldenburg Air Base (1959–1961)
Oldenburg Air Base
(1959–1961)
Horsesfeld Air Base (1961–1997)
Horsesfeld Air Base
(1961–1997)
Preschen Airfield (1956- / 1990-1994)
Preschen Airfield
( 1956- / 1990-1994)

assignment

The main task of the association is the training of all Eurofighter pilots in the Air Force. In addition, the Austrian Eurofighter pilots are being trained in Laage as part of a cooperation agreement with the Republic of Austria.

A two-seat Eurofighter from JG 73 in Laage

history

Jagdgeschwader 73 was set up on December 1, 1959 at Oldenburg Air Base and equipped with the Canadair CL-13B Saber Mk 6 aircraft. In 1961 the association was relocated to the horse field horse field in Rhineland-Palatinate, on October 1, 1964 the reclassification and renaming of the JG 73 into Jagdbombergeschwader 42 and the conversion to the Fiat G.91 fighter aircraft took place . In 1967 it was renamed to Leichtes Kampfgeschwader 42 and in 1975 with the introduction of the F-4F to Fighter Bomber Wing 35. As a rule, the squadron was subordinate to two flying fighter squadrons during the Cold War.

Jagdgeschwader 73 in Laage emerged from the amalgamation of Jagdbombergeschwader 35 from horse field and the test wing MiG-29, the successor to Jagdfliegergeschwader 3 "Wladimir Komarow" of the NVA in Preschen (Brandenburg).

A special feature was the 1st squadron with its 24 MiG-29 "Fulcrum" , which were the only fighter jets taken over by the NVA . Originally, they were stationed with the NVA's JG-3 at the Preschen airfield in Lusatia. This was renamed the MiG-29 test wing in 1991 and 1./Jagdgeschwader 73 on May 31, 1993, and relocated to Laage on October 1, 1994.

The German MiG-29s were the only warplanes of the former Warsaw Pact in NATO until NATO's eastward expansion and were popular "opponents" for exercise purposes in maneuvers with the alliance partners. For this purpose, they laid u. a. to the USA, especially to Nellis AFB near Las Vegas . With the introduction of Eurofighter flight operations, a total of 22 MiG-29s were handed over to the Polish Air Force . One machine crashed in 1996, another was handed over to the Bundeswehr Air Force Museum in Berlin-Gatow.

The 2nd squadron flew the McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II , which had been taken over from Fighter Bomber Wing 35 and was relocated in 1997 from horse field to Laage , until it was decommissioned in April 2002 . In Laage, Jagdgeschwader 73 was officially put into service again on September 18, 1997 when it was given the traditional name "Steinhoff". It was named after the former inspector of the Air Force and General Johannes Steinhoff .

The last nine MiG-29s of Jagdgeschwader 73 “Steinhoff” landed in Bydgoszcz on August 4, 2004 , where they were initially converted to meet the needs of the Polish Air Force and some of them were completely overhauled. The new machine base is the 41st ELT in Malbork . The Eurofighter has been flown on the JG 73 "S" since April 30, 2004.

To support the Eurofighter marketing at the Indian air show "AERO INDIA 2009", three Eurofighters of the squadron were relocated from February 4 to 16, 2009, supported by an Airbus A310 MRTT tanker and 70 soldiers to the Yelahanka air base near Bangalore . There was a stopover at Riyadh Airport in Saudi Arabia.

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr on October 1, 2013, the Jagdgeschwader 73 "S" (JG 73 "S") was renamed the Tactical Air Force Wing 73 "S" (TaktLwG 73 "S").

On June 24, 2019, two of the “ Eurofighter Typhoon ” aircraft of the squadron crashed after a collision north of the Fleesensee in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at around 2 p.m. Both pilots used their ejector seats. One of the two soldiers was found alive in a treetop, the other only dead. The cause of this accident is not yet clear and is currently being investigated. One plane fell in a forest near the village of Jabel , the other south of the village of Nossentiner Hütte . Both machines were unarmed and were involved in an aerial combat exercise with a third Eurofighter.

structure

  • Staff TaktLwG 73
    • Flying group (FlgGrp TaktLwG 73)
    • Technical group (TGrp TaktLwG 73)

Commodore

No. Surname Beginning of the term of office Term expires
1. Colonel Manfred Quantity June 1, 1993 September 30, 1994
2. Colonel Klaus-Peter Stieglitz October 1, 1994 March 1995
3. Colonel Reinhard Mack March 1995 1998
4th Colonel Kurt Rutze 1999 2001
5. Colonel Peter Hauser 2001 May 2004
6th Colonel Günter Katz May 2004 2007
7th Colonel Andreas Schick 2007 August 5, 2010
8th. Colonel Markus Krammel August 5, 2010 October 10, 2012
9. Colonel Bernhard Teicke October 10, 2012 June 28, 2016
10. Colonel Gero von Fritschen June 28, 2016 23 September 2019
11. Colonel Joachim Kaschke 23 September 2019 constantly

Used aircraft types

Other Luftwaffe fighter squadrons

photos

  • Five Panavia Tornado of the German Air Force and one Mikojan-Gurewitsch MiG-29 in 2003

  • MiG-29 with special paint

  • MiG-29 together with an American F-15C

  • Eurofighter at the start

Web links

Commons : Jagdgeschwader 73  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory BL 20 Luftwaffe hunting associations in the Federal Archives ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on December 18, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  2. ^ The Order ( Memento of June 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.flugrevue.de/de/militaer/streitkraft-operations/eurofighter-der-luftwaffe-treffen-zur-aero-india-in-bangalore-ein.7697.htm
  4. ↑ AERO INDIA 2009 ( Memento from April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Body found: Second pilot of Eurofighter crash is dead | Nordkurier.de. June 24, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Team_Luftwaffe: #Flugunfall update: One of the crashed pilots could only be recovered dead. The second was able to save himself with his parachute and is alive. The rescue workers take care of him. # Malchow2406 @Polizei_PP_NB. In: @Team_Luftwaffe. June 24, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ ZEIT ONLINE: Bundeswehr: A pilot was killed in a Eurofighter crash . In: The time . June 24, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed June 24, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Jenny Pfeifer: New commodore for the air base - Source: https://www.svz.de/4878891 © 2018. In: www.svz.de. August 6, 2010, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Change of leadership in Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff". In: http://www.luftwaffe.de . PIZ Luftwaffe, October 17, 2012, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ New tour of the "Steinhoffs". In: http://www.luftwaffe.de . PIZ Luftwaffe, July 6, 2016, accessed October 17, 2018 .