Air Defender 23 exercise will involve 10,000 participants and 250 aircraft from 25 members of the defence alliance
US general Michael Loh, director of the Air National Guard, said to expect 100 US aircraft and 2,000 personnel in the skies over the central European region.
US ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann said the 10-day exercises would “demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt the agility and the swiftness of our allied force in Nato as a first responder”. While there were no plans to make Air Defender 23 a recurring exercise, the ambassador said the US had “no desire for this to be the last”.
According to plans released, German air space will be closed in three staggered stages and areas. Daily between 11am and 1pm in a northern cluster around Baltic coastal areas, in a southern cluster between 2-4pm and, for two hours from 5pm over the North Sea and Danish/Dutch airspace. No exercise flights are scheduled during next weekend, a German military spokesman said.
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