RAF crews recognised for services in Baltic mission

Defence Minister Earl Howe has issued praise for four RAF Typhoons serving in Estonia as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission.

The RAF Typhoons have been deployed in Estonia since April and are responding to incursion by Russian aircraft over Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

The deployment is part of Britain’s pledge to spend two per cent of GDP on defence and will add to the 500 personnel the UK agreed to deploy to the region at the NATO Summit in Warsaw in July.

During a visit to Amari, Earl Howe, Minister of State in the House of Lords, said: “Britain remains an outward facing nation and with defence spending on the rise our Armed Forces are making a difference RAF Typhoons have provided invaluable reassurance to our Baltic allies standing ready 24 hours a day, seven days a week, alert and ready to respond to aircraft flying near Baltic airspace.”