The NASAMS Air Defence Unit has participated in a training exercise with an international presence at the Tapa Garrison barracks

• The Spanish contingent, stationed at the Ämari air base, has carried out training exercises with the Estonian Armed Forces and the Eurofighter aircraft of the Baltic Air Police

The Estonian-based Air Defence Unit (ADU) has completed the first of its temporary deployments to the Tapa Garrison barracks in north-central Estonia.

For a week, the Spanish contingent conducted training exercises with the Estonian Armed Forces, as well as with Eurofighter aircraft from the Italian detachment of the Baltic Air Police.

This deployment to the barracks of the Estonian Battle Group - made up of military personnel from France and the United Kingdom - as well as the first brigade of the Estonian Army, has allowed the UDAA NASAMS to train jointly with units such as the Estonian Air Defence Group.

During this week, the annual Baltic Defence Conference also took place in Tapa Garrison, in which the Spanish military personnel participated.

Operation Persistent Effort

The Spanish contingent of the UDAA NASAMS, made up of around a hundred military personnel from the different units of the Canary Islands Command and with the 94th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment as the generating unit, is deployed at the Ämari air base (Estonia).

This UDAA constitutes a new Spanish support to the Alliance's missions on the eastern flank, specifically to the ‘Persistent Effort’ operation, which also includes the NASAMS UDAA deployed in Latvia, the ‘Tigru’ Detachment -with the radar of the Mobile Air Control Group (GRUMOCA)- deployed in Romania, the Patriot battery deployed in Turkey and the air detachments that carry out Air Policing missions, such as the ‘Paznic’, currently deployed in Romania.