To the north, the French air force was at Ämari with four Mirage 2000-5Fs. When I visited Šiauliai, the base hosted two detachments, six Spanish Tranche 2 Typhoons and four Portuguese air force F-16AMs. In 2014, concerned over Russia’s activities in Ukraine, NATO added deployments to Ämari in Estonia and to Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport. The Baltic Air Policing arrangement is unusual but not unprecedented: NATO also rotates fighters to Iceland (which doesn’t have a military), and the airspace of Albania, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Luxembourg are all secured by larger neighbors. To the north, formally neutral nations Sweden and Finland guard their own airspace. South and west of Šiauliai, Danish and Polish F-16s protect their respective countries, integrated into NATO’s command structure. Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea has made NATO jittery about the three small Baltic allies.Ī number of other air forces fly QRA missions in the area. The Soviet Union annexed all three Baltic nations during World War II and released them only when it broke apart in 1991. Looming large to the east of the Baltic states is Russia, with its large and capable military. NATO sends fighter detachments to Šiauliai because Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia-which all joined NATO in 2004-are too small to afford their own advanced fighters for QRA. The Spanish fighters were in Lithuania last summer on a rotating NATO detachment near the small city of Šiauliai (show-lee), on a four-month deployment in the alliance’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) program. Not far from where we were standing in Lithuania, fighters were certainly standing QRA for the Russian Federation. Canada, which shares the North American Air Defense (NORAD) mission with the United States, adds at least two more. airports in places like Homestead, Florida Chicopee, Massachusetts and Portland, Oregon. Fighters in the continental United States stand ready at 14 U.S. Peacetime QRA is low-glamor police work to a fighter pilot, but virtually every nation with sufficient resources keeps fighters on alert, from the United Kingdom’s brand-new Typhoons to Cuba’s ancient MiGs. (Ministry of Defence / Crown, copyright 2014) A bogey might be an airliner, a spyplane, or as the British Typhoon discovered in 2014, an armed Sukhoi.
Pilots rarely know why they’re scrambled. The Spanish Eurofighters that afternoon were on a training mission, a “T-scramble.” A real-world interception is called an “alpha-scramble.” By any name, QRA means armed fighters and crews standing ready 24/7 to launch within minutes to intercept unidentified aircraft approaching sovereign airspace without a flight plan or a squawking radar identification transponder. Department of Defense prefers Airspace Control Alert (ACA), but informally almost everyone calls it a “scramble.” If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.In NATO military parlance, it’s a Quick Reaction Alert, or QRA. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".
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