Canadian fighter jets are to begin flying NATO “air policing” missions near Russian airspace for the first time later this summer, the commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force said in an interview.
“I expect our CF-18s are going to be moving into Lithuania sometime at the end of August to prepare for the air policing tasking from September,” Lt.-Gen Yvan Blondin said Wednesday on the margins of RIMPAC 2014, the largest joint sea, air and land exercise in the Pacific.
“I expect we’ll be in Lithuania until at least December and then we will see what the government wants to do.”
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Source: canada.com
