US Navy Helicopter Squadron conducts special military exercise in Albania amid escalation between Belgrade and Pristina

9
US Navy Helicopter Squadron conducts special military exercise in Albania amid escalation between Belgrade and Pristina

The U.S. Navy helicopter squadron, which is assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush, held internal exercises in Albania. This is reported by the Western press, referring to information from sources in the command of the naval aviation US Navy.

According to The Navy Times, the pilots of the helicopter squadron got the opportunity to fly in mountainous conditions, at low altitudes, and conducted exercises with several other units of the armed forces. As Naval Aviation Officer Eric Gustavson emphasized, training flights in the mountains made it possible to expand the competencies of the squadron pilots.



The exercise also included elements of the Albanian armed forces, which conducted exercises in unfamiliar conditions, aimed at increasing interoperability between the allies. The Albanian military adopted the experience of the American armed forces in conducting a number of operations in mountainous conditions.

It should be noted that the helicopter squadron involved in the exercise usually performs the tasks of conducting search and rescue operations for aircraft flights from aircraft carriers. Therefore, it is very important for its pilots to train to fly in extreme conditions of poor visibility, over a mountainous landscape. The territory of Albania is the best suited for such events.

Recall that the US Navy aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush was officially included in the US fleet in 2009. It is capable of placing on board up to 90 aircraft and helicopters for various purposes, as well as missile and anti-aircraft weapons.

The training was carried out against the backdrop of rising tensions between Belgrade and Pristina. Recently, there have been several attacks on ethnic Serbs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, and the Serbian army has been brought closer to the border with the region.
  • Wikipedia / US Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Marvin Harris
Our news channels

Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.

9 comments
Information
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
  1. +3
    2 February 2023 08: 54
    Albania hosts U.S. Navy Helicopter Squadron Internal Exercises
    Couldn't you find another place closer? wink
    1. +2
      2 February 2023 09: 18
      As you can see, it was not found, Vladimir Vladimirovich hi After all, the Americans have already carried out the bombing of Belgrade and Yugoslavia. And these teachings are reminders of them. At that time, these bombings were called humanitarian. And when the decision was made to tear off Kosovo, then the one who came up with it, the Finn Marti Ahtisaari, was given the Nobel Peace Prize for this.
      1. +1
        2 February 2023 11: 57
        Quote: Reptiloid
        these teachings are reminders

        Dima hi You speak correctly!
        1. +2
          2 February 2023 12: 34
          Kosovo has always been Serbia. Serbs have always lived there. When, after WW2, the situation in Albania was very difficult, the Albanians fled to Yugoslavia and settled near the border. And Broz Tito did not interfere with them. And he could have resettled them far away from the border, mixed them with other populations, and they would have agreed, because they had nowhere to go. Broz Tito suggested annexing Albania to Yugoslavia. And it turned out the opposite. The Albanians merged at the border, did not mix, after the death of the leader they began to behave aggressively towards the Serbs, and the further the worse. After the destruction of the USSR, the West began to demonize the Serbs, working out plans for the destruction of Russia. Especially the Germans and the staff tried. And it turned out
          ...a coat was sewn to a button
  2. +1
    2 February 2023 08: 58
    "Peacekeepers" are pulling closer to the smoldering conflict. To immediately begin to "extinguish coals with kerosene."
  3. 0
    2 February 2023 09: 03
    The Americans once again defiantly showed Serbia which side they are on. If the exercises (as is customary) were planned earlier, then this still fits into the American logic of "supporting an ally."
    The Albanian military adopted the experience of the American armed forces in conducting a number of operations in mountainous conditions.
    The Americans themselves fought little in the mountains of Afghanistan. In the first period, mainly aviation and artillery, and in the last period they protected themselves exclusively at the bases. These are ours, at one time, fighting there with the Mujahideen, passes and gorges crawled almost on their belly.
  4. +1
    2 February 2023 09: 03
    it would be better if they trained to evacuate personnel from the roof of the embassy ...
    although Kosovo was fundamentally lost by the Serbs back in the days of Joseph Tito, who continued the Albanianization of the region
  5. +1
    2 February 2023 09: 23
    The Americans have a cool topography ... How can the mountains of one country be "internal exercises" for carrier-based helicopters that are assigned to an aircraft carrier of another country?
  6. +2
    2 February 2023 13: 42
    1999 The United States lost an Apache squadron in Albania. In mountainous areas it is hard for helicopters. You don’t know what is worse to fly low or high, if low from local heights you can easily shoot at him with a portable MANPADS system, if they fly high, he will not be able to gain enough height to avoid MANPADS.
    Therefore, after the Maidan on October 5, 2000, one of the first actions of traitors to the authorities, about 1.500 portable MANPADS systems "Igla" were destroyed.
    Willow is exactly what you need for a mountain place for helicopters.
    NATO is very afraid of a repetition of 1941 and the mass uprising of the Serbs, therefore the accumulation of forces in the Balkans, and in Bosnia and Albania and Macedonia, and in Italy a division is being prepared for intervention in Kosovo.
    They do not have time to scare the Serbs with this, they only cause the anger of the people.
    But this is to say a lot about NATO's intentions regarding Russia. If they strengthen their position in the Balkans so strongly, they intend, like Hitler, to attack Russia.
    Russia should quickly solve the NWO in the outskirts and prepare both the army and the military-industrial complex for large-scale military operations. Tezhela times go by, Europe is almost in the new 1941. early 1941
    I hope that the Governor will not allow the mass destruction of his people, as then, and that the evil-doing NATO states will be punished in full at the very beginning, as well as transfer the war to their territories and to their cities?

"Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) (banned in Russia), ISIS (banned in Russia), "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham" formerly "Jabhat al-Nusra" (banned in Russia) , Taliban (banned in Russia), Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), Anti-Corruption Foundation (banned in Russia), Navalny Headquarters (banned in Russia), Facebook (banned in Russia), Instagram (banned in Russia), Meta (banned in Russia), Misanthropic Division (banned in Russia), Azov (banned in Russia), Muslim Brotherhood (banned in Russia), Aum Shinrikyo (banned in Russia), AUE (banned in Russia), UNA-UNSO (banned in Russia), Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (banned in Russia), Legion “Freedom of Russia” (armed formation, recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and banned)

“Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent,” as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: “Medusa”; "Voice of America"; "Realities"; "Present time"; "Radio Freedom"; Ponomarev; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; "Owl"; "Alliance of Doctors"; "RKK" "Levada Center"; "Memorial"; "Voice"; "Person and law"; "Rain"; "Mediazone"; "Deutsche Welle"; QMS "Caucasian Knot"; "Insider"; "New Newspaper"