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The Finnish Air Force will secure NATO skies by deploying four F/A-18 Hornets to Keflavik Air Base for the next rotation of the Icelandic Air Policing mission in February 2025. The Finnish Air ...
Finland has taken on NATO's air defence of Iceland for the first time, having previously flown alliance training sorties from ...
Unlike the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission, Icelandic Air Policing is not a continuous mission, meaning that the Finnish F/A-18C Hornets will not directly assume the tasking from a previous force.
Finnish F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets were previously in Iceland in 2014, during a Royal Norwegian Air Force Air Policing Mission in Iceland. (Finnish Air Force) Finland will mark an important moment ...
Finland’s four Hornets arrived on January 24, and are operating from Keflavik Air Base in Iceland, assuming the duties that had been carried out by the Czech Air Force and its Saab JAS 39 Gripen ...