BALTIC PATROL

Since 2004, NATO ’s Baltic Air Policing has operated a roundthe- clock peacetime mission to preserve the alliance’s airspace German contingents making up its 42nd rotation. integrity. Thomas Newdick checked in with the French and German contingents making up its 42nd rotation. BALTIC AIR POLICING Armed for action, a Mirage 2000-5F launches from Šiauliai airfield. Bartek Bera THE ARMÉE de l’Air (French Air Force) took on the responsibility for the air defence of the three Baltic states for the fifth