“鹰狮”战斗机参加2023年北约“老虎大会”
This year’s Tiger Meet went down in the history of the NATO Tiger Association. 这不仅是第一次在意大利举行, it also had the largest number of participants who flew the highest number of missions. 所有这些, 除了E-3A哨兵, 从特拉帕尼运作的, 西西里, 是在意大利南部的焦亚德尔科勒空军基地管理的吗.
Gripen fighters from the two NATO countries 匈牙利 and 捷克共和国 participated as usual. Both countries have a long story of participation in NATO led exercises and air policing assignments with their Gripens and NATO Tiger Meet is not an exception.
During two weeks with nine flying days, several different missions were conducted. 除了星期五，每天都有两波飞行任务. The morning was usually dedicated to complex COMAO (COMposite 空气 Operations) scenarios, i.e. missions where large groups of aircraft and helicopters jointly performed various tasks including, 例如, 空战, 攻击地面和地面目标, 压制敌人的防空力量或营救被击落的飞行员. In the afternoon, missions of a smaller scale, in which mostly less experienced pilots participated. 他们的任务是, 例如, 单兵空战, basic combat maneuvering BFM (Basic Fighter Maneuvering) and ACM (空气 Combat Maneuvering) or searching for and destroying slow SMI (Slow Mover Interceptor) targets.
斯坦尼斯拉夫·塞伊卡少校眼中的北约猛虎相遇, 211战术中队特遣队指挥官:
Thanks to the work of the whole team, we have achieved 100% of our plan during the exercise. The aircraft were in great shape at all times thanks to the care of the technical staff, the pilots always had the necessary support from the DSQOC (部署able Squadron Operation Centre) and the logistics from the provision of facilities to all the transportation was all covered.
今天, Tiger Meet is among the largest and most effective air exercises in terms of training in Europe. It can easily be compared to the American exercise Red Flag due to its size and complexity of missions. 除了战士, airborne early warning system aircraft like E-3A Sentry and KC-130J and KC-767A tanker aircraft did also participate to make this kind of exercise as realistic as possible. Next year the Tiger Meet will be held in Germany and who knows if Gripen from three countries will be represented? 如果瑞典在那之前成为北约成员国的话，还有机会.