Italy has assumed command of the NATO mission in the Baltic: the handover between the contingent of mixed Spanish and Portuguese composition and the Italian contingent - made up of the Air Force Task Force - sanctioned, in fact, the change in leadership of the “Baltic Air Policing” mission, in Lithuania.
It is the ninth time that our country has taken over the air mission in the Baltic.
The mission, in force since April 2004, saw the participation of 17 Allied countries to safeguard the airspace of the Baltic Republics: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Italy is the nation that has contributed most to Baltic Air Policing, participating in the mission nine times since 2015.
