Four US-made fighter jets of the Royal Danish Air Force will land at the Lithuanian Air Base in Šiauliai on 2 January and the rotation ceremony will take place on 3 January, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.
Danish troops will protect the Baltic airspace for the fourth time already.
Czech troops with fighter jets JAS-39C "Gripen" have been guarding the Baltic airspace since late August.
Lithuania and other Baltic states do not have air policing capacities. Based on the decision by the North Atlantic Council, since March 2004, when the Baltic States joined NATO, the 24/7 task to police the airspace of the Baltic States has been conducted on three-month rotation from Lithuania's First Air Base in Zokniai/Šiauliai International Airport.
Troops from Belgium, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the UK, Spain, the US, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Romania, Turkey, and Germany have guarded the Baltic airspace.
