Polish Air Force

BBC: Poland set for Baltic air patrols

Polish Air Force MiG-29

Poland has become the first former Warsaw Pact country to take responsibility for patrolling the air space of the three Baltic states.

Polish pilots took over the rotating Nato mission from the US at a ceremony in northern Lithuania. Seventy Polish air force personnel will serve there.

Poland joined Nato six years ago and it is the first time its pilots will patrol air space bordering Russia.

Four Russian-made MiG-29 jets will be flown during the three-month mission.

Comments

  1. CDR Salamander wrote:

    Poland continues to be a serious player. Their guys are good too.

    Posted 31 Dec 2005 at 12:15 pm

  2. Starosta wrote:

    Well, Pigilito, if you take a look back in history, it was the United States that gave Poland away to Stalin’s USSR at the Yalta conference. I don’t think Poland really went along with the USSR by its own free will. ;)

    Posted 01 Apr 2006 at 7:21 pm

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