I trust that as the F35 starts being deployed across the EU that we won't be foolish enough to pull way back from the Russian border.
I understand that the F35 stealth skin needs more maintenance in colder climes.
A few of the F-35s have already been on training missions with take off from Evenes, including in September last year when flying together with U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers over the Norwegian Sea.
In March and April, Norway will host its biggest military drill inside the Arctic Circle since the Cold War. About 40,000 soldiers will take part when exercise Cold Response 2022 kicks off in the Ofoten area in partnership with Norway’s NATO allies. During the exercise, Evenes Airport will play a key role.
In addition to NATO members, also Finland and Sweden are to take part in the exercise. Before Christmas, the Finnish Government announced its decision to buy 64 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace the country’s current fleet of F/A-18 Hornets. Nordic interoperability
In a policy-brief for the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, former Executive Officer and F-16 pilot at Bodø Air Base, Colonel Per Erik Solli (retired) highlights that Finland’s decision to buy the F-35 is a move towards greater interoperability across the Nordics.
“The decision paves the way for further regional cooperation on air power in the years ahead,” Per Erik Solli states.
“For more than a decade, the Nordic countries’ fighter forces have cooperated closely through the Cross Border Training regime as well as tactical and joint multinational exercises. This cooperation has become intertwined with broader regional security and defense integration since 2014,” Solli and co-author Øystein Solvang write.
Like Finland and Norway, also the Danish Air Force is buying F-35 and expects the first planes to arrive in 2023.
Meanwhile, the airport in Bodø will continue to serve civilian air traffic and still be home to 330 Squadron of SAR helicopters operating under the management of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Northern Norway.
I trust that as the F35 starts being deployed across the EU that we won't be foolish enough to pull way back from the Russian border.
I understand that the F35 stealth skin needs more maintenance in colder climes.
Yet the US is building a air base up there - que pasa??
Wouldnt it be a good idea since they already own them, to keep some maintained in case they are needed?
I’m confused. if you listen to some people, the F35 is an over priced POS that can’t perform.
Why are so many countries, paying that high price and fighting to get them? A POS that the Russians and Chinese will easily defeat in combat?
Perhaps warfare has changed.
Just curious.
Then there was those couple of times when the SR-71 had to declare an emergency and set down at Bodo.
Bodø was used for as a base for U-2 spy planes sent on reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. On May Day, 1960, U-2 headed for Bodø from Peshawar, Pakistan was shot down deep in Soviet territory by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile, creating an international incident.
WWII Airbase, both allied and nazi. Battles fought on the site.
My dad was at Thule AFB. It’s further north and it’s now a space base. So he wins and is now an astronaut.
Maybe they can open a rail depot.
I propose we rent this installation for use as a home for America’s most notorious unelected bureaucrat, Herr A. Fauci.
Why January 6 ?