NATO’s Largest Air Exercise Prompts Russian Response

Brian Everstine June 26, 2023
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A U.S. A-10 prepares to take off for flights during NATO’s Air Defender 2023 exercise at Jagel air base, Germany, on June 22.

Credit: Brian Everstine/Aviation Week
JAGEL AIR BASE, Germany—Twenty-five nations recently wrapped up the largest air exercise in NATO’s history, aimed at practicing all phases of an attack on a partner nation, and Russia was watching up-close. The German and U.S. Air National Guard-led Air Defender 2023 brought together about 200...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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