The... has ended “Typhoon Flag 23”, the Eurofighter line air exercise that took place this year at 4th Wing of Grosseto from 28 August to 8 September.
In these two weeks of exercise, 12 aircraft and personnel from the four Wings competing for Air defence of the Italian Air Force – 4° Wing of Grosseto, 36° Wing of Gioia del Colle (Bari), 37° Wing of Trapani and 51° Wing of Istrana (Treviso) – participated in the most important training event of the year for the line Eurofighter. The objective of this year's exercise was to conduct advanced pilot training within complex operational scenarios, as well as to develop – in a simulated manner – advanced tactics for missile deployment. Meteor.
During the fifteen days of exercises, which also saw a change of the aircrew in the second week, numerous missions of various types were carried out, both air-to-air and air-to-ground: DCA (Defensive Counter Air), OCA (Offensive Counter Airand Swing Role This therefore focuses on areas above the Tyrrhenian Sea or those in the central part of Italy. There were also no flight refuelling missions.
The exercise therefore enabled a number of training objectives to be achieved, primarily for the younger pilots, who practised the tactics and techniques for deploying the various weapon systems, drawing on the lessons learned from the live-fire and tactical instructors, in technical jargon. “Weapons Instructor”, in the previous edition of Typhoon Flag and during the exercise Cobra Warrior from last year.
The Typhoon Flag represents an important opportunity for the standardisation of operational and maintenance procedures across the various Departments, the achievement of training objectives at various levels, and the consolidation of operational tactics for the entire “EFA Community”, increasing its spirit of Co-operation e Sharing.
The 4th Wing of Grosseto, the 36th Wing of Gioia del Colle (Bari), the 37th Wing of Trapani and the 51st Wing of Istrana (Treviso) are, together with the 32nd Wing of Amendola with F-35 fighters, the Italian Air Force Wings that ensure national air defence and the service of Quick Reaction Alert of the NATO. Equipped with aircraft Eurofighter, have as their assigned mission, from peacetime, to ensure the surveillance of national airspace 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, seamlessly, via a complex air defence system integrated with that of other NATO countries. The inclusion of these aircraft in the national alert service allows for greater capability to be provided to that complex system which, in a few minutes, ensures take-off (in technical jargon “scramble”) for fighter jets to intercept and identify any suspicious aerial tracks detected by radar. The scramble order, known in jargon as Scramble, is given to the operations rooms of the 11th D.A.M.I. Group of Poggio Renatico (FE) and the 22nd D.A.M.I. Group of Licola (NA) by the CAOC (Combined Air Operations Centre) in Torrejon (Spain), as head of the Southern Europe air traffic control service. The two IAMD (Integrated Air Missile Defence) Groups are placed
