Overview

• About 300 Italian service members are deployed at the Estonian base to conduct Baltic airspace surveillance under NATO Air Policing.
• The contingent rotated on September 30 from F-35s to F-2000 Typhoons, redesignating the unit as Task Force Air 4th Wing.
• An Italian Army SAMP/T battery provides additional air and missile defence as part of NATO's integrated posture.
• Mattarella praised the mission and thanked families, calling the troops' vigilance essential given “the many incursions of these days.”
• Italian media reported that two Eurofighter 2000 jets provided an honor escort to the president's aircraft upon departure.