American attack aircraft A-10 will land on the Estonian island

The US National Guard under attack planes A-10 Thunderbolt will land for the first time today at the airfield of the Estonian city of Kuressaare, where they will have a two-day training session with the local militia of the Kaitselit militia (Defense Union), reports RIA News message of the Estonian militia.

Kuressaare is the administrative center of the island of Saaremaa, which is the largest island of Estonia.

According to the information, “ten American A-10 attack aircraft and four UH-64 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters of the National Guard of the US state of Maryland arrived at Emari airfield near Tallinn in early August to take part in joint exercises with 7 through 18 August with the Estonian Defense Forces, deployed in Estonia by the NATO international battalion and members of the militant militia of the Kiteselit (Union of Defense, is a member of the Ministry of Defense). ”

During the exercise, control of the island’s marine zone and protection from the sea and air of the Roomassaare port and its surroundings will be worked out. The attackers will fly over the sea and over Kuressaare, including at low altitudes. In Kuressaare, aircraft of this type will land for the first time. The MC-130 tanker will also arrive at the city’s airport and will serve the ground attack aircraft. Militiamen and members of the Defense Forces will take part in 18 speedboat maneuvers,

says the release of the Union of Defense.

A-10 Thunderbolt - attack aircraft, whose main purpose is to combat enemy armored vehicles, as well as the destruction of various ground targets. Serial production of the aircraft was completed in 1984 year, but their operation continues at the present time. A total of 715 stormtroopers were manufactured.

Comments

[Logall]

American attack aircraft A-10 will land on the Estonian island

For another, their airports are not adapted:

[DMB_95]

Maybe Americans want to work out the destruction of small-sized mobile surface targets? 18 Estonian boats are great.

[Logall]

Let the Latvian work!
At the same time ...

Quote: DMB_95

Maybe Americans want to work out the destruction of small-sized mobile surface targets? 18 Estonian boats are great.

[cniza]

Creep closer and closer ...

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Logall

For another, their airports are not adapted:

Do not get tired of throwing hats yet? Draw information not only from political feuilletons, what is being done in the immediate vicinity of our borders, to break our most important communications in the Baltic, between our fortified areas and bases.

In addition to Baltic Air Policing aircraft, the US Air Force F-15 fighters are periodically stationed in Emari to participate in the exercises. So, for example, from August 15 to September 2, 2016 there, for participation in joint exercises with Estonia, Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom 16 such aircraft. Since then, the A-10s have been to Emari every year, sometimes lingering for several months. For example, 12 A-10 attack aircraft were in Emari from the second half of September 2015 until mid-January 2016. On December 7, 2015, they practiced landing at the abandoned former Soviet airfield Kiltsi (Haapsalu), which did not have the necessary equipment and navigational aids for landing. And on June 20, 2016, the A-10 attack aircraft from Emari during the Saber Strike 2016 exercises practiced take-offs and landings on the Yagala-Karavete highway (aircraft of this type landed on the highway and took off from it for the first time since 1984).

Other NATO attack aircraft based in Emari include Polish Su-22 fighter bombers (May 2013, 2014 and 2016) and F-16 fighter bombers. Fourteen F-16CMs from the American air base Aviano to Italy in March-April 2015 took part in exercises during which air strikes against ground targets were launched for the first time in Estonia (at the Tapa training ground). And in September 2016, Polish F-3 fighter bombers from the Kshesiny air base (near Poznan) first flew to Emari to participate in the Ramstein Alloy 16 exercises.
The base at Emari also accepts large military transport aircraft used by NATO, such as the C-17 Globemaster III, C-5M Super Galaxy and An-124http: //eurasia.expert/nato-pribaltiku-ne-br
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[Samaritan]

"Normal exercises" ... against Russian aggression, defend yourself with attack aircraft! Something is wrong here ...

[Aleksey7777777]

Yeahhhh .... Attack aircraft are far from defensive weapons ... To put it mildly ...

[just exp]

not in this case, the A-10 is essentially an anti-tank aircraft.
like Apaches among turntables .da and Abrams, these are not tanks, but tank destroyers.
after the Second World War they had a fear of hordes of Russian tanks, so they emphasized anti-tank weapons.

[Samaritan]

Quote: just explo

not in this case, the A-10 is essentially an anti-tank aircraft

When our tanks arrive there, there will be a scorched field, and the A-10 will not remain there for a long time ...
Here rather, the propaganda of "Help" from the United States, to know how to dispose of Warthogs in an expensive way, is what they attach to an eternal parking lot ...

[just exp]

Well, I wouldn’t underestimate NATO, the mattresses are those warriors, but certainly not fools, and when they need to fight, they can do it honestly, and underestimation leads like a grease, he also screamed that in Iraq the soldiers of the bush would be torn to rags, tell how I saw Saddam on a rope and not George W. Bush?
and cheers patriotism without justification already led to unnecessary losses, we already took Grozny with one landing regiment and the Finns at 39m also took for the "week".
tandrebort is an excellent aircraft, and although we have no less excellent air defense, they will have time to drink blood.

[faridg7]

I hope that at least one warthog on the island in the form of excellent scrap metal will remain, but better all. Ah walk so walk, and let their excellent pilots rot there.

[Scalpel]

Well, somehow our tanks turned out to be near Donetsk and Lugansk, but the Baltic states do not want this at home. Or do you think that Russia will start a nuclear war with NATO?

[Logall]

And you remember how they defend:

[siberalt]

These "warthogs" scare away only local boars!

[Sargaras]

Already trained to land on the highway, now the island. I wonder what will happen next, a swamp or a belly on the water.

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

Each Tenderbolt rocket from MANPADS !!!

[irazum]

Yes, let them play, Estonians should be reassured ... But this is not the island from which our first bombed Berlin?

[babali]

Terrible weapons, look and take pride.

[Butchcassidy]

My colleague served in Soviet times in Saremaa in air defense, was an altimeter of the highest class.

[pvv113]

A-10 Thunderbolt will land for the first time today at the airfield of the Estonian city of Kuressaare

It looks like they’re no longer risking a ride on the highway

[Music]

Not too new cars. It seems that from this island our bombers flew to Berlin. Show your flag. Now the Americans are showing.