NATO AIR MEET 2003 - Parte 3 (M558 - 36AL/2011)

Terceira tranche de imagens do Nato Air Meet de 2003 (NAM03), gentilmente cedidas ao Pássaro de Ferro pelo JPSimão.

Naquele ano o exercício decorreu, como já foi referido, na Polónia e sobre ele, o site da NATO escrevia, na altura: «The exercise will be conducted by Headquarters Allied Air Forces North, Ramstein, Germany and will involve air forces from Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. This year the exercise will be hosted by Poland, and participating aircraft will operate from Poznan Air Base and Powidz Air Base, Poland.

NAM 03 is designed to exercise participating nations’ air forces in tactical air operations. The exercise will focus on practising and evaluating tactics for the use of composite air operations with emphasis on the suppression of enemy air defences and electronic warfare. The exercise area will be limited to Poland and will involve more than 80 different aircraft including tanker and airborne early warning aircraft and ground-based air defence systems. No exercise flying will take place on the weekends. Flying will take place during daytime only. Flying down to 350 feet above ground level will take place in selected areas within the exercise area. A press information centre will be operated at Poznan Air Base during the period 5 – 19 September 2003.»

Nestas seis imagens, está bem patente a quantidade e diversidade de aeronaves e respetivos meios materiais e humanos envolvidos naquele exercício. Aviões L-39, Harrier, Tornado, F/A-18, SU-22, Mig-29, F-16...

 Participação francesa, com os seus caraterísticos "deltas" - Mirage 2000C e N.

As já então habituais linhas de F-16 multi-nações - Turquia, Grécia, EUA, Portugal, Bélgica, Dinamarca, e Noruega.

A "embaixada lusitana", composta por uma mão cheia de F-16A operados pela Esquadra 201 - Falcões, com o 15116 - hoje já MLU, em primeiro plano.

Posted in: Base Aérea de Poznan - Polónia,F/A-18,F16,Harrier,L-39,mig-29,Mirage 2000C,Mirage 2000N,NAM03,su-22,Tornado