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kaii
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Nordic Air Forces to operate asone
3/29/2023 6:00:26 AM
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This will create a force of around 250 modern combat airplanes (F35, F/A-18, JAS39 Gripen) that can operate across the territory and air space of all the Nordic countries, utilise the base structure in each country and share maintenance and supply functions.

Expect to see similar initiatives emerge for naval and land forces, as Sweden and Finland enter NATO.

K
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Nordic Air Forces to operate asone
3/29/2023 12:42:53 PM
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This will create a force of around 250 modern combat airplanes (F35, F/A-18, JAS39 Gripen) that can operate across the territory and air space of all the Nordic countries, utilise the base structure in each country and share maintenance and supply functions.

Expect to see similar initiatives emerge for naval and land forces, as Sweden and Finland enter NATO.

K


IMO, if any nations can pull this off it is the Nordics. There is a lot to the tactics of mission support that these nations will need to work out, it will be interesting to see how this looks a year from now.

I wonder what influence, impact if any, will this have on the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

"The Nordic countries will pursue four areas of action:

integrated command and control, operational planning and execution
flexible and resilient deployment of our air forces
joint airspace surveillance
joint education, training and exercises."

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Dan

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kaii
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Nordic Air Forces to operate asone
3/30/2023 4:56:04 AM
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There is a lot to the tactics of mission support that these nations will need to work out, it will be interesting to see how this looks a year from now.

I wonder what influence, impact if any, will this have on the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Dan



Indeed, one thing is joint training, which has been in place the past few years, but full integration is probably still a few years down the line.
I remember, for instance, that Swedish JAS39s could not fly the first few days during the Libyan action, due to issues with the NATO supplied fuel (which was used by Danish and Norwegian F16s at the same base).

The "unwritten" expectation in the region, is that Sweden will take the lead for air force integration, the Finns will take the lead for land forces, and Norway will focus on naval forces. Depending on how far the military forces of the Nordic countries will actually be integrated in the end, that seems like a logical split of responsibilities.

Also, good catch about the Baltic states. There are already some links there, of course, but I would expect these to deepen as well with the Baltic Sea becoming essentially a NATO lake now.

Interesting times.,
If someone had told me three years ago that Sweden and Finland would be NATO members, I probably would have laughed.

K

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