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On June 29-30 NATO members and partners conducted air exercises over the Baltic Sea and the Baltic states. Twenty aircraft from NATO members Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey and NATO Enhanced Opportunities Partner Finland participated in second iteration of the Ramstein Alloy exercise. The alliance gave its account of the event the headline of
As part of what appears to be designed to keep Russian radar and military observers on a 365-days-a-year alert in the region, coming as the drills did immediately on the heels of the large-scale Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) war games, the new exercise was conducted in conjunction with the NATO Air Policing mission based in the Ämari Air Base in Estonia which, with the Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, has hosted regular rotations of multinational NATO combat aircraft for years, in the second case since 2004.