December 4th, 2011
This month, December 2011, 31 Squadron will be celebrating its 60th anniversary! As some people might have noticed, the squadron was founded on October 1st 1951. This means we’ll be a bit late with our celebration, but there’s a good reason for it. Due to the ongoing operations, 31 was active in Libya as well [...]
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December 4th, 2011
Since 2008 Belgium is participating in the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) operations from NATO in Afghanistan. Initially with four F16′s and now operating with six F16′s, this Belgian participation called “Operation Guardian Falcon” (OGF) is currently still ongoing and our presence shows that a small country can also share the burden by taking its [...]
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November 21st, 2011
On March 19th the US, France, UK and their allies unleashed the full strength of their air and naval power on the Lybian leader Moammar Khadaffi. It was the start of operation Oddyssee Dawn, which would later turn into operation Unified Protector under NATO command. On March 21st Belgian F-16’s flew their first mission and [...]
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October 11th, 2011
This years edition of the Nato Tiger Meet took place at Cambrai Air Base in France, starting on the 9th of May 2011. The meeting was destined to be a significant one for several reasons: it’s the NATO TIGER ASSOCIATION’s 50th birthday, 31 Fighter Bomber Squadrons 60th birthday and the last meeting for French host squadron EC 01.012 “Cambrésis”, that will be disbanded at the end of the year.
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