British jets train inside Arctic Circle, ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Royal Air Force Typhoons have forward deployed to Norway above the Arctic Circle, to carry out an Agile Combat Employment exercise from Estonia, where they are currently based conducting the NATO Air Policing mission.

According to an RAF news release, the Typhoon deployment was to take part in Exercise Tempest Strike and Exercise Tower Guardian. The first exercise, Tempest Strike has seen the Typhoons fly from Amari Air Base in Estonia to the Norwegian Air base at Orland. […]

Wing Commander Scott MacColl, Commanding Officer of 140 Expeditionary Air Wing, was quoted as saying:

“Our forward deployment to the high-north has shown the RAF’s capability to undertake operations in austere environments with precision, effectiveness and with limited command and support nodes.” Läs artikel