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Photo: Italian Air Force personnel and their Lockheed Martin Lightning IIs at Ãmari. Author: Jarkko Martin Pukki
Responsibility for NATO Baltic Air Policing duties at Ãmari base was handed over to members of the Italian Air Force Monday. The Italians arrived last week, attracting plenty of attention surrounding the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters they use, the first time the state-of-the-art plane has been seen in Estonian skies.
The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) and their F-35s are not complte newcomers to the Baltic States as a whole, however, having ust finished a tour at the other NATO Baltic air base at Å iauliai, Lithiania. The Aeronautica Militare have also served an Ãmari rotation before, in 2018.