{"id":47909,"date":"2022-07-04T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47909"},"modified":"2024-07-04T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:32:45","slug":"the-fast-takeoff-of-spanish-ef-18-and-french-mirage-2000-fighters-in-a-bap-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/04\/the-fast-takeoff-of-spanish-ef-18-and-french-mirage-2000-fighters-in-a-bap-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The fast takeoff of Spanish EF-18 and French Mirage 2000 fighters in a BAP mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led NATO to reinforce its Baltic Air Policing (BAP) missions at the \u0160iauliai (Lithuania) and \u00c4mari (Estonia) bases.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/01\/surreal-russian-fighters-attack-russian-military-equipment-on-snake-island\/\">Surreal: Russian fighters attack Russian military equipment on Snake Island<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/10\/an-excellent-video-that-explains-the-f-a-18e-super-hornet-fighter-and-its-armament\/\">An excellent video that explains the F\/A-18E Super Hornet fighter and its armament<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>At the end of March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/30\/el-sigiloso-despliegue-de-8-ef-18m-en-lituania-el-mayor-de-los-destacamentos-bap-de-espana\/\">the Spanish Air Force deployed eight EF-18M Hornet fighters at the Lithuanian base<\/a>, within the framework of the Vilkas Detachment. <strong>It is Spain's largest contribution to this mission<\/strong>, which aims to provide air defense to the small Baltic republics, which lack their own fighter planes to deal with <strong>the frequent incursions of Russian planes, which fly through the area in violation of international aviation regulations<\/strong>, with the transponder turned off and without communicating their flight plans, in a constant attitude of provocation.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, on March 13, <strong>the French Arm\u00e9e de l'Air deployed 4 Mirage 2000-5F fighters at the Estonian base. <\/strong>France already had four fighters of the same type a year earlier deployed to \u00c4mari. These BAP missions are done in 4-month rotations, with different NATO countries contributing fighters to each rotation.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/InterestingProductions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting Productions<\/a> <strong>showed what the fast takeoff of the Spanish EF-18 and the French Mirage 2000 from these Baltic bases.<\/strong> These quick takeoffs are carried out when a Scramble alert is received to intercept Russian aircraft. <strong>Allied fighters have to be airborne within 15 minutes<\/strong> of receiving the alert:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YsjCUKvzFxc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led NATO to reinforce its Baltic Air Policing (BAP) missions at the \u0160iauliai (Lithuania) and \u00c4mari (Estonia) bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[12944,16957,1108,8273,3734,7325,11195,1239,11368,11875,12945],"class_list":["post-47909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-siauliai-air-base","tag-amari-air-base","tag-armee-de-lair","tag-baltic-air-policing","tag-mirage-2000","tag-estonia","tag-lithuania","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-ef-18-hornet","tag-nato","tag-spanish-air-force","tag-vilkas-detachment"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 07:11:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}