Overview
- Several Eurofighters departed the Nörvenich air base for Malbork, Poland, to strengthen the alliance’s eastern air policing.
- About 150 Bundeswehr personnel are deploying with the jets, including pilots, technicians, logisticians, security forces and military police.
- Officials say the move responds to recent Russian drone intrusions into Poland and fighter violations near Estonian airspace.
- The deployment is initially slated to run through March and complements Germany’s existing alert detachment in Romania.
- Malbork lies about 60 kilometers from Gdańsk and roughly 80 kilometers from Russia’s Kaliningrad, and the mission forms part of NATO’s Operation Eastern Sentry with additional allied aircraft and air defenses pledged.