They returned last August 12 to the Ali Al Jaber base in Kuwait, replacing the Eurofighter Italians of Task Group Typhoon, as part of the Transaction Inherent Resolve, the Tornado of the Devil Task Group of Air Kuwait Task Force, reached and passed the first important milestone of 500 operational flight hours a few days ago, in the first 100 mission days.
The component of Devil Task Group, returned to Kuwait after just over five years, sees in her ranks personnel coming from the 6th wing of Ghedi (BS), to which is added the support of colleagues from other flocks and also joint forces.
Despite the peculiar climatic conditions, in some cases, during the summer months with temperatures above 50 ° C, the planes carried out a conspicuous number of missions for about 1400 covered points of interest.
I Tornado they are employed on reconnaissance and aerial surveillance missions - in technical jargon Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) - to ensure the coalition the required contribution in terms of monitoring and control from above of the Theater of Operations, essential for obtaining theInformation Superiority which plays a crucial role in all military operations.
The forces of the various countries, which have expressed their intention to join the coalition, are operating in accordance with Art. 51 of the UN Charter, as well as Resolutions no. 2170 of 15 August 2014 and no. 2178 of 27 September 2014, based on the request for help presented on 20 September 2014 by the permanent representative of Iraq to the UN to the president of the Security Council.
After the physical fall of the Islamic state, which took place in March 2018, the threat is mainly constituted by the Daesh cells trying to re-emerge.
