Date was completed 4 monthly missions of the Czech army, when 4 Czech aircraft JAS-39C Gripen protect the skies of the baltic republics Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. During this period took the flyers 15 sharp interference against intruders, mostly Russian aircraft. 've logged 326 hours and made 298 flights. Now they were replaced by the Danish F-16. While the pilots are with their machines already at home in the Caslav, is intense packing of the ground staff and material. A 60-membered kontigent is compared with the Turkish (150) and German (200) and a significantly smaller, yet everything worked. For this deserved recognition. The soldiers (probably the only flying staff) have received the medal of NATO for action in a foreign operation, which handed them the commander of the Lithuanian air force Edvardas Mažeikis.
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