NATO's Baltic airspace policing
mission at the Lielvarde Base of the National Armed Forces in
Latvia, 02 March 2024 has begun. The Latvian Military Base at
Lielvarde has been activated effective 01 March 2024 as the
third NATO base to host Allied fighter detachments that will
safeguard the skies over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
conducting the Baltic Air Policing mission, according to NATO
statement. Due to runway and infrastructure works at Amari Air
Base that will last until later in the year, Latvia created the
structural conditions at Lielvarde, and a German Eurofighter
detachment is going to execute this mission until November. NATO
Member States have performed rotary patrols of Latvian,
Lithuanian, and Estonian airspace since March 2004, when the
Baltic States were admitted to the alliance.
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