NATO TIGER MEET 2023
Nato Tiger Meet began this Sunday and last until early October. 12 countries together, imitating “situations close to reality”.
Is described as the most relevant air exercise in the worldis linked to NATO And it’s happening in Portugal.
It’s called NATO Tiger Meet and started this Sunday, with Beja As a center of operations, and is extended until October 3rd. That is, in several zones it is very likely that Portuguese see military planes to pass up there.
10 NATO countries participate: Portugal, Chéquia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Germany, with the Austria and Switzerland partners.
“Com 1,700 military personnel Committed, there are 1,400 those who will be directly training together and the rest in support, ”explains Captain Patrícia Fernandes, spokesman for the Portuguese Air Force (FAP), who organizes the exercise.
The event consists of “Two weeks of intensive training in order to reinforce interoperability between the forces of 12 countries. Means that we will train the ability to act together imitating situations close to reality”Describes FAP spokeswoman on the radio.
Nato Tiger Meet exercise is a unique opportunity to improve “scenario techniques, tactics and procedures that require multiple domain solutions,” the Air Force describes.
In this simulation of answers to real attacks, they are tested Several parameters: integrated air defense, offensive air fight, attack and support for the terrestrial and sea component.
It involves 59 fighters, 16 helicopters and several transportation, air replenishment and tactical control aircraft. The Portuguese Air Force contributed the majority (16) of the air.
This time, there is an extra: integration of satellite images very high resolution that will be used almost in real time to monitor operations.
In addition to Tiger Meet, two other synchronized and integrated exercises are performed: Ramstein Guard (NATO Electronic War Training Program) and Fast Eagle 25 (from the joint planning cell focused on special operations).
