Thumbelina, the Spitfire and the JAS 39 Gripen. This weekend celebrates the Swedish Air Force 90 years with the grand air show in Linköping. Over 70 000 spectators are expected at the airport ore.
– The need for the Air Force today is greater than in years.
So said air force chief Mats Helgesson Thursday, when he spoke before his own staff and invited guests from Sweden and a further 20 countries in the ongoing Air Force fair in Linkoping.
his speech ranged from Karl Albert Beyron Amundssons tasked in 1926 to merge naval aviation and army aviation to their own defense branch – and until today, and the tense situation in the Baltic Sea, where Russia is flying with heavily armed fighter Mig35.
– Many air bases have been closed. Today we have five left, including the Air Combat Center in Uppsala, he notes.
How tomorrow’s Air Force should look (2020-2025), planned by the Armed Forces, working with perspective studies for 2020 years on defense in parliament . The studies will be completed in December 2017.
The challenges expected to grow dramatically in future.
– The environment becomes more complex, the weapons get longer range, cyber warfare intensified and dependence on space systems increases, he says.
on Saturday and Sunday, visitors of ore behold everything from older plan Viggen, barrel and Dragon parallel with historical rarities fighter plane the Spitfire and the training aircraft Tiger Moth.
in addition, participates Switzerland and Finland Super-horn, and Belgium with F-16s (F-16 just Saturday.
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