The Finnish Air Force will secure NATO skies by deploying four F/A-18 Hornets to Keflavik Air Base for the next rotation of the Icelandic Air Policing mission in February 2025. The Finnish Air ...

Even though this is Finland's first Icelandic Air Policing Mission, it is not the first time the Finnish Air Force has operated in Iceland. Back in 2014, Finnish F/A-18s touched down in the Land ...

Unlike the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission, Icelandic Air Policing is not a continuous mission, meaning that the Finnish F/A-18C Hornets will not directly assume the tasking from a previous force.

The number of intercepts “remained mostly the same” from the previous year, when NATO air policing missions scrambled well over 300 times to intercept Russian military aircraft approaching ...

during a Royal Norwegian Air Force Air Policing Mission in Iceland. (Finnish Air Force) Finland will mark an important moment later this month with its first-ever participation in the Air Policing ...

JASIONKA NEAR RZESZOW, Poland (Reuters) - Germany will deploy Eurofighter jets to Poland in summer to support the air policing on NATO's eastern flank, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said ...