Germany sends to the manoeuvres an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane, Lithuania - the C-27J Spartan transport plane of its Air Force and a Mil Mi-8 helicopter. Sweden sent to the ...

which serves as the Air Force’s replacement for the venerable HH-60G Pave Hawk. Aviano received its first of the new helicopters last month and is scheduled to have a total of six by October.

"Air force and air defense alert units thwarted a provocation staged by the republic of Lithuania near the Volkovshchina ... the neighboring territory. Mi-24 helicopters from the air defense ...