NATO exercise at the 6th Wing. The exercise saw the redeployment of personnel belonging to flying units of other nationalities, in particular, military personnel from the air forces of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany operated jointly. The exercise began with the dissemination of various intelligence messages describing a politically unstable situation in NATO's areas of responsibility. Subsequently, due to the insistence and use of force by opposing forces, a state of crisis was reached, which soon escalated into a state of war, with large-scale attacks involving the use of WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction).
At this point, NATO, at the request of the governments concerned and in application of Article 5 of the treaty (“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”), intervened in response to attacks carried out by opposing forces in order to guarantee the national sovereignty of its territories. To make the exercise more realistic, various injects simulating bombing actions, damage to aircraft from their home bases, and losses of aircraft during flight missions were sent to the participating units.
The objective of the exercise is indeed to train the Command and Control chains of the entire NATO structure, from the government-level consultation process to the execution of flight missions.
The intention of NATO with this type of exercise is to maintain a credible deterrent function, therefore to train personnel dedicated to procedures relating to the planning and conduct of attack missions through Command and Control action.
