There are 14 scrambles carried out by fighters Euro Fighter of Task Force Air Black storm in the first two months as part of the NATO activity of Enhanced Air Policing, deployed at Mihail Kogalniceanu airport in Romania.
Lo Scramble is the operational activity that consists in rapidly taking off fighter aircraft with the aim of intercepting and identifying unknown aircraft that violate the Alliance Airspace.
- Scramble they took place on the orders of the CAOC NATO (Combined Air Operations Center) of Torrejon (Spain).
The activation of the Italian interceptor fighters was requested because some aircraft not properly identified had entered, without authorization, the airspace under the competence of the Romanian control bodies and in consideration of the route that these assets were maintaining, in a short time they could potentially have reach the Alliance Airspace.
Italian aircraft were required to operate in Combat Air Patrol (CAP) to monitor the area of competence and dissuade traffic in the area from any unauthorized entry.
From early December the aircraft have been present on the Romanian base Eurofighter 2000 with flight crews from the four flocks that guarantee, without interruption, the defense of Italian airspace (4th flock of Grosseto, 36th flock of Gioia del Colle, 37th flock of Trapani and 51 ° flock of Istrana) that make up the Air Task Force, under the Lead of the 36th flock.
It is the second time, after a first experience in 2019, that the aircraft Eurofighter 2000 are deployed in Romania in operations of Air Policing, strengthening the surveillance activity normally carried out by the Mig-21 of the Forṱele Aeriene Romậne.
L'Air Policing it is a collective defense mission, the latter pivotal concept of the NATO Treaty, conducted in peacetime without interruption, 365 days a year, in order to ensure the integrity and safety of the airspace of all the countries of the Alliance.
