“Top Gun in Bavaria”: Söder visits the Luftwaffe and poses as a fighter pilot. Germany is moving five Eurofighters to Latvia to protect NATO airspace over the Baltics.

“Air policing” as a sign of NATO against Putin’s Russia. From 2014 to 2023, Ämari military airfield in Estonia was the base for the German Eurofighters. With the permanent stationing of a Bundeswehr combat brigade in Lithuania from 2025, Germany is sending a clear signal.