“NATO eyes” are being deployed in Lithuania for the first time. NATO’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is deployed to perform the tasks. Using a radar dome mounted on the fuselage, the system ensures airspace monitoring, battlefield management and the functioning of communication systems hundreds of kilometers from the location.
2 AWACS aircraft and a contingent of 150 troops are arriving from Turkey.
The AWACS planes will conduct missions for several weeks to monitor Russian military activity along the alliance’s eastern border.
After Russia attacked Ukraine, NATO took significant measures to protect the Alliance’s eastern edge from possible aggression. Both in the air and on land and sea. NATO military aircraft are on constant alert. They protect the skies of the entire Alliance 24/7.
The Boeing 707 liner-based AWACS aircraft arriving in Lithuania ensures airspace monitoring, management, control, communication and can see missiles, military activity, determine the coordinates of various systems and possible firing directions at a distance of about 400 km.
“NATO eyes” are being deployed in Lithuania for the first time. NATO’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is deployed to perform the tasks. Using a radar dome mounted on the fuselage, the system ensures airspace monitoring, battlefield management and the functioning of communication systems hundreds of kilometers from the location.
2 AWACS aircraft and a contingent of 150 troops are arriving from Turkey.
The AWACS planes will conduct missions for several weeks to monitor Russian military activity along the alliance’s eastern border.
After Russia attacked Ukraine, NATO took significant measures to protect the Alliance’s eastern edge from possible aggression. Both in the air and on land and sea. NATO military aircraft are on constant alert. They protect the skies of the entire Alliance 24/7.
The Boeing 707 liner-based AWACS aircraft arriving in Lithuania ensures airspace monitoring, management, control, communication and can see missiles, military activity, determine the coordinates of various systems and possible firing directions at a distance of about 400 km.
