Seven months before one of the largest exercises ever in Germany will start on June 12th for two weeks, some more details were given.
Main operating bases will be Hohn and Jagel which will together host more than 50 (!) Air National Guard fighters (F-15, F-16 and A-10) and some European fighters.
The base for transports and tankers will be Wunstorf.
Arrival of the fighters and several supporting C-17 at Jagel and Hohn will start in early-June. It is possible that some fighters could even arrive much earlier for some USAF theatre exercises or even stay longer on other bases for the same reason.
More details will follow.
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2 KC-46
8 ANG C-130
1 RomAF C-27J
1 LitAF C-27J
plus flying of 4 A400M of LTG 62
Per mission 12-14 aircraft will take off from here.
Jagel will get:
16 ANG F-16C (perhaps two different units)
12 ANG A-10
5 HuAF JAS39
plus flying of 6-8 TLwG 51 Tornados
Hohn is planned for:
32 ANG F-15C (4-5 different units)
Neuburg and Laage will also take part with their based wings. Lechfeld should also participate (presumably also A-10). Geilenkirchen will also participate.
More infos will follow, especially with the right behavior advice of all spotters near this bases (parking etc.).
Requests from Finish AF and THK to the Luftwaffe for participating the exercise had been made. Time will tell if the already crowded bases could host them.
according this article the german airbases would be the stagingfields for other exercises as wel. Could it be that THK and Finland invite forces to their exercises? Just asking without any furter knowledge.
The final planning obviously hadn’t started. But there should be many activitiy around the participants going away for one or more days to the Baltic and East Europe and return.
from 15 countries!