Air Defender 2023 at Hohn [12/06/2023]

Air Defender 2023 at Fliegerhorst Hohn on 12/06/2023

From 12 until 23 June 2023 NATO and the partnercountries held the largest air defense exercise in its history: Air Defender 2023.
With almost 10,000 personnel and 250 airplanes from 25 countries, each day a large number of sorties were flown over the whole of Europe, but focussed on Germany, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Sorties were also flown to Romania and the Baltic States to show NATO’s willingness to defend also these countries in case of aggression.
Fliegerhorst Hohn (Hohn Air Base), in Schleswig-Holstein in the north of Germany was host to 16 McDonnell Douglas F-15C ‘Eagle’ (Air National Guard USAF), 4 Boeing F/A-18E ‘Super Hornet’ (USS Gerald R. Ford, US Navy), 2 Boeing F/A-18F ‘Super Hornet’ (USS Gerald R. Ford, US Navy), 2 Boeing EA-18G ‘Growler’ Block 2 (USS Gerald R. Ford, US Navy), 4 Eurofighter EF-2000 ‘Typhoon’ FGR.4 (RAF) and 4 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C ‘Hornet’ (Finnish AF).
Below are the photos from the first day of the exercise, Monday 12 June 2023, at Fliegerhorst Hohn.

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