Two Eurofighter F-2000 aircraft of the 4th Wing of Grosseto landed yesterday in Istrana (TV) which, starting today, will activate an air defense alarm cell.
The presence of the F-2000 at the 51 ° Stormo of Istrana, which takes over from a similar cell deployed up to now at the Cameri base, is part of a strategic vision of the aerial instrument which, with a view to general reduction of the time of intervention and timely contrast of possible hybrid threats, aims to use operational capabilities already available in order to increase the current Air Defense device, in addition to the current measures to combat type threats renegade.
The 51st Wing has very quickly provided for the reconditioning of some infrastructures as well as the systems necessary to ensure full technical and logistical support for the operational activities of the aircraft.
The operational capacity of the Air Force to deploy the F-2000s, both nationally and internationally, demonstrates how the Italian Air Defense system, fully integrated into NATO, is always ready to compete in the surveillance of the airspace even in neighboring countries that they do not have their own piloted air defense components, like Slovenia and Albania. This specific mission is ensured by the Air Force through operations of Interim Air Policing (IAP), to which, as mentioned, Italy participates with continuity in the skies of Slovenia from 2004 and Albania from the 2009, while it was engaged in Iceland in the 2013 and in the Baltic Republics in the 2015 through the Task Force Air (TFA) of Siauliai in Lithuania.
Italy is the only nation in the Alliance that has participated, to date, in all four NATO IAPs.
