More than 50 military aircraft from 9 countries join in southern Greece exercise

More than 50 combatant craft and helicopters from respective countries and 1,000 unit are taking portion successful an yearly NATO workout that started Monday successful southern Greece, the Hellenic Air Force said.

The NATO Tiger Meet 2026 workout is centered astatine Greece’s 116th Combat Wing astatine Araxos Air Base west of Patras successful the Peloponnese region, with the information of units signifier Greece, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Austria, France, the United Kingdom, India, and The Netherlands will beryllium contiguous arsenic observers, on with forces from the Hellenic Navy and Special Warfare Command.

Participating craft see F-16s, F-18s, Tornados, JAS-39 Gripens and EF-2000 Eurofighters.

The Air Force said the workout will screen “a wide scope of modern aerial warfare tasks, such arsenic defensive/offensive counter-air operations, aerial interdiction missions, dynamic targeting, TST targeting, suppression – demolition of force aerial defenses, APCLO, APCMO, arsenic well arsenic physics warfare and jamming missions.”

It runs until May 15. A nationalist aerial amusement will beryllium held connected May 10.