ŠIAULIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania — The fighter pilots quickly grabbed their gear and stormed out the door of the small command building as alarm bells wailed from a loudspeaker. The countdown had started.

The military alliance routinely scrambles fighter aircraft to intercept Russian warplanes that approach or fly near NATO airspace. NATO says the Russian planes it intercepts often fail to use their ...

Air defense drills hosted recently by Romania saw NATO troops tracking and downing drone swarms, the latest sign of how the ...

Air Policing forms a fundamental component of NATO’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence framework, enabling rapid ...

The Italian Air Force deployed four F-35A Lightning II to Ämari Air Base in Estonia, leading NATO’s latest Baltic Air Policing mission. The Italian Air Force deployed four F-35A Lightning IIs to Ämari ...

Turkish Air Force F-16s participated in NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission in 2021, accounting for a number of the 290 interceptions of Russian aircraft that the alliance reported across Europe during ...

BRUSSELS – The United States will turn over two of NATO’s major command posts - in Naples, Italy and Norfolk, Virginia - to European officers, a military source told Reuters on Monday. The move is in ...

Spain deployed EF-18 fighter jets to Lithuania last month to support NATO air policing operations.Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images ŠIAULIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania — The fighter pilots ...