NATO’s largest air exercise ever, Ramstein Flag 26, is approaching its final phase and will soon be coming in for landing. The almost two weeks long exercise has featured advanced air operations from the northern parts of the Nordic region to the southern parts of Spain.
The exercise brings together 18 Nato countries and more than 200 aircraft, with up to 150 sorties every day.
For the first time, it has all been led by NATO’s Allied Air Command, with the Combined Air Operations Centre in Bodø, Northern Norway, as lead CAOC. […]
”We are continually achieving small victories that we build on. This includes flying across borders, using each other’s bases, joint training, as well as larger joint exercises going forward,” he continues.
One of the most recent milestones came just before the Ramstein Flag exercise began, when Norwegian F-35 fighter aircraft for the first time operated out of Kallax Air Base in Northern Sweden. […]
CAOC Bodø was officially opened in October 2025 and is planned to have between 450 and 500 personell when it is fully operational. While the centre is being built up at record speed, some of the infrastructure is still in the process of being developed.
”That takes time to build,” says Head of National Operations, Brigadier General Michael Bottenvik-Hartmann, at CAOC Bodø. Läs artikel