USAF deploys combat aircraft to Eastern Europe and the BalticsTwelve F-15C planes have arrived yesterday to BulgariaThe USAF has forward deployed fighters and ground attack aircraft to Eastern Europe and the Baltic region as part of wider effort to bolster its forces in Europe under operation "Atlantic Resolve". Twelve F15C Eagle fighters have landed yesterday at Graf Ignatievo Air Base, near Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The planes had arrived to Ramstein, Germany, from Florida in April.
A detachment of four A-10 ground attack planes arrived a week ago to Ämari air base in Estonia. They are part of a larger deployment of 12 aircraft of the Davis-Monthan AB, in Arizona, sent by the end of February to the German Spangdahlem AB.