@NSPA_NATO
sends 10 trucks loaded with tons of winter gear and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) equipment to
#Ukraine
.
#NATO
is helping to coordinate 🇺🇦 requests for assistance and supporting Allies in the delivery of humanitarian & non-lethal aid.
#StandWithUkraine
About 48 tons of urgent medical supplies just arrived in Slovakia 🇸🇰 to combat the effects of
#coronavirus
Strategic airlift capabilities are key to help
#NATO
Allies transferring medical equipment during the
#COVID19
crisis✈️
#SALIS
#StrongerTogether
ℹ️
The Czech Republic adopts Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS) to transfer urgent medical equipment from China to tackle
#COVID19
1⃣st✈️took off today
3⃣ SALIS missions tasked by 🇨🇿
7⃣0⃣ tons of medical equipment 🏥
@CzechMFA
👉All info:
An
#AN225
✈️the world’s largest & heaviest transport aircraft landed today in
#Germany
carrying 1⃣0⃣+ million masks. This is the 2nd of 3⃣ 🇩🇪 missions under the Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS) against
#COVID19
#Strongertogether
#WeAreNATO
1⃣4⃣ million of masks, 300,000 protective sets & a mask maker machine arrived at Wroclaw aiport yesterday night to support Poland 🇵🇱 efforts against
#COVID19
. The flight was arranged by the Strategic Airlift International Solution (
#SALIS
)✈️📦
Moreℹ️:
Our team in Taranto 🇮🇹 is producing 3D printed connectors converting snorkelling masks into emergency ventilator masks to combat the effects of
#COVID19
The connectors will be donated to 🇮🇹
@DPCgov
Little gestures, great impact -
#StrongerTogether
ℹ️
NSPA is supporting
#Greece
in fighting wildfires🔥: 20 helicopters 🚁with pilots, crewmembers & mechanics have been deployed to strategic locations in 🇬🇷 supporting firefighters on the ground on their daily operations.
We are
#StrongerTogether
.
Info:
During
#DefMin6
6 Allies 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇮🇹🇳🇱🇬🇧 committed to assign 26.7M to define the future of their helicopter fleets under
#NATO
’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability project.
@NSPA_NATO
will manage the Concept Stage on behalf of the participating nations.
🎥Learn more about NGRC👇
4️⃣ more Allies 🇧🇬 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 have joined
#NATO
’s Multinational
#Ammunition
Warehousing Initiative (MAWI).
This brings the list of MAWI participants to 2️⃣ 3️⃣ Allies, together with NSPA and invitee 🇸🇪
👉
#StrongerTogether
#WeAreNATO
Flying with new receivers✈️ The
@A330_MMU
& Gripen fighters from
#Sweden
🇸🇪 are conducting test flights towards aerial refuelling certification with our
#MRTT
. This will enable longer-range missions for 🇨🇿 & other Gripen users.
Read more:
Great news for our MMF partner nations 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴After completing its acceptance process, our second Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) aicraft✈️is in the air & will be soon welcomed by the
@A330_MMU
at its home base in Eindhoven 🇳🇱
👉More info:
New missions completed overnight in support to
#NATO
Allies Bulgaria & Poland✈️
👉
#SALIS
AN-124 arrived in Wroclaw 🇵🇱 loaded with about 7⃣3⃣ tons of medical supplies 😷📦
👉
#SAC
C-17 arrived in Sofia carrrying 2⃣0⃣+ tons of masks, tests & medicines for 🇧🇬
#Strongertogether
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 delivered Search & Rescue capacity to
#Lebanon
last night through NSPA-supported Strategic Airlift Capability. The
@USARNL
team will help searching survivors after the devastating explosion that shook
#Beirut
last Tuesday
👉
📷J. Verolme
@NATO
fleets test air-to-air refuelling assets ✈️⛽️✈️Further to the AAR test campaign, the
@A330_MMU
will be able to conduct aerial refueling operations with
@NATOAWACS
, extending its mission reach.
#Strongertogether
Today, we have delivered the fourth aircraft of the Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet - 4/9✔️✈️
MMF4 is now in the sky✈️and will soon arrive to its new home base at
@VlbEindhoven
🇳🇱
Over to you
@A330_MMU
!
🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴
More info:
100,000 sets of protective suits delivered this morning in Romania🛬📦
This is the 3⃣rd mission arranged by
@SAC_Program
in support to Romania. In total, 300,000 sets of medical supplies airlifted & distributed to equip 🇷🇴frontliners fighting
#COVID19
ℹ️
We have completed construction and fitting of the temporary relief site in
#Antakya
🇹🇷
The site is now officially ready to welcome 2400 people displaced by the
#TurkeyEarthquake
in February 2023.
#StrongerTogether
👉
Today we completed another mission using a special aircraft.
#DYK
? The AN225✈️:
👉Is the largest aircraft in the🌍
👉Is called ‘Mriya’-“dream” in 🇺🇦
👉Has beaten 2⃣4⃣2⃣world records in 30 years🏅
👉Is part of
#SALIS
since 2013, mainly used by 🇫🇷&🇩🇪
#avgeek
NSPA has awarded
@AirbusDefence
with a Follow-on Support contract to 2032 for the sustainment of the Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet ✈️, which will soon reach IOC to provide 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴 with strategic transport, air-to-air refueling & MEDEVAC capabilities.
ℹ️
Our Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS) continues operating, providing strategic airlift capabilities to
@NATO
Allies. Yesterday the AN-124 ✈️ supported
#France
🇫🇷 deploying troops and equipment to bolster the Alliance eastern flank in
#Romania
🇷🇴
Yesterday
#SALIS
✈️completed its latest
#COVID19
mission
#DYK
?
👉9⃣5⃣0⃣ tons of medical supplies airlifted through SALIS
👉1⃣7⃣ missions since mid-March
👉4⃣6⃣8⃣ flying hours
Find a full wrap up on the missions here:
🇨🇿🇸🇰🇩🇪🇵🇱
#WeareNATO
#StrongerTogether
Several tons of medical supplies, including 190,000 masks & 180,000 protective suits arrived overnight in
#Poland
🇵🇱 to fight
#COVID19
6⃣th mission succesfully executed under
#SALIS
programme in support of our Allies✈️📦
#StrongerTogether
👉Read more:
La mulți ani, România! 🙌
On 1 December our Ally
#Romania
🇷🇴 celebrates its National Day, marking 104 years since its
#GreatUnion
. We wish a happy day to our Romanian friends & partners!🙌
📸
@MApNRomania
#WeAreNATO
New
#COVID19
relief acquisition in support to our Allies 🇮🇹🇫🇷 🇧🇪🇪🇸 🇷🇴 & 🇬🇷 as part of the efforts to help tackle the spread of the virus: 1⃣8⃣ tons of cargo including millions of masks, thousands of goggles, isolations gowns & other items✈️
ℹ️
#WeareNATO
We have received our 1️⃣st of eight Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) aircraft ✈️
#A330MRTT
Stay tuned for the ferry flight to
@VlbEindhoven
tomorrow!
🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 🇳🇴 & 🇳🇱
@NATO
@A330_MMU
[
#DefenceMatters
] Airbus has delivered the first of eight
#A330MRTT
to NATO after a ceremony held at the Airbus Getafe site in Spain. The aircraft is part of the NATO Multinational MRTT Fleet.
Read more here👉
@A330_MMU
@NSPA_NATO
NSPA contributes to readiness & interoperability between 🇺🇸,
@NATO
& military partners.
During Ex
#DefenderEurope21
, NSPA will provide Real Life Support to over 10,000 🇺🇸 personnel including camps + food services in 1⃣5⃣ locations across 🇧🇬🇭🇺🇱🇹🇲🇰🇷🇴
Info:
Today we have signed a contract with
@northropgrumman
to provide full lifecycle sustainment to the
@NATO
Alliance Ground Surveillance
#AGS
✈️& support NAGSF operations at Sigonella 🇮🇹 ensuring fleet readiness in the benefit of the 30 Allies.
#WeAreNATO
ℹ️
Our 3⃣rd Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet (MMF) aircraft just landed in Eindhoven 🇳🇱Main Operating Base 🛬
#DYK
? This is the first of the fleet to be converted into aeromedical evacuation (
#MEDEVAC
) configuration ✈️🏥.
🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴
#Strongertogether
For the 11th consecutive year, NSPA is supporting
#Greece
in its
#firefighting
effort to protect people&natural resources. Upon request of the 🇬🇷authorities, NSPA has deployed a record number of aircraft to 20 strategic locations within Greek territory.
Our Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet (MMF) continues to grow✈️
@A330_MMU
pilots are ready to bring our fifth aircraft to its home base in
@VlbEindhoven
.
✅5/9 MMF = Strategic transport, air-to-air refuelling &MEDEVAC capabilities for 6
#NATO
nations 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴
Happy 2⃣0⃣0⃣th Anniversary to our Ally
#Greece
🇬🇷Χρόνια πολλά 💙🤍 Today we celebrate Greece’s Independence Day. We wish a happy & safe national day to our Greek friends & partners!🙌
#Greece200years
#Strongertogether
Today Ms Stacy Cummings, our General Manager, visited our team from the NSPA Southern Operational Centre (SOC) deployed in
#Antakya
and thanked them for their hard work in support of
#T
ürkiye 🇹🇷
#WeAreNATO
Over 1,200 kilos of protective masks, isolation gowns & thermometers arrived in Madrid 🇪🇸 this morning to equip the Spanish troops deployed as part of
#OperacionBalmis
. The supplies were procured & delivered by
@NSPA_NATO
ℹ️
📷
@EMADmde
🆕Check the latest update on our Multinational MRTT Fleet (
#MMF
) programme, initiated to address the air-to-air refueling gap in 🇪🇺&
#NATO
. It will provide 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇴&🇳🇱 w/ air to air refueling, strategic transport & medical evacuation✈️
#Strongertogether
The Netherlands delivers two intensive care units to the Caribbean island of Sint Marteen 🇳🇱 through
#SAC
✈️
These ICUs will significantly increase the island's capability to treat
#COVID19
patients under critical condition.
ℹ️
#StrongerTogether
Serdeczne życzenia z okazji Narodowego Święta Niepodległości! 🙌
On 11/11/1918 our Ally
#Poland
🇵🇱regained its independence. Happy National Independence Day to our Polish friends & partners!
#WeAreNATO
#StrongerTogether
📸
@Poland_MOD
NSPA will deliver over 1000 tonnes of medical & pharmaceutical supplies in
#Afghanistan
. Ten chartered aircraft will fly from 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇹🇷&🇰🇷 between Nov & Dec bringing the medication in support to the Afghan National Defence & Security Forces 🇦🇫
#WeareNATO
NSPA delivers a COVID-19 testing laboratory with two laboratory technicians to increase the testing capacity of
@NATO_KFOR
mission service members . The facility installed in Pristina 🇽🇰 is now operational & testing has started.
👉More info:
#WeareNATO
Since the pandemic outbreak, testing has been essential in tackling transmission. In 2020, over 1⃣5⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ tests were conducted through NSPA-delivered laboratories to help protect personnel deployed in
#NATO
operations in
#Kosovo
🇽🇰 &
#Afghanistan
🇦🇫
👉
Our
#MRTT
aircraft (MMF
#3
)✈️will soon become a flying hospital🏥to offer
#MEDEVAC
capabilities to the six MMF nations 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴 Check how the conversion started & how it is going👇Next step? Train the assigned military medical personnel. Stay tuned!
#avgeek
#FridayMotivation
👏We achieved another milestone @ 🇬🇧BOXER Armoured Vehicle fleet programme!
The
#BOXER
Support Partnership:
✔️provides In-Service Support for all 3⃣current BOXER user nations🇩🇪🇳🇱🇱🇹
✔️supports +6⃣0⃣0⃣ vehicles from 3⃣nations
👉
#WeAreNATO
#StrongerTogether
New firefighting vehicle delivered to the Spanish Navy 🇪🇸 for operations on board aircraft carriers, amphibious craft & in restricted areas.
Commissioning & acceptance tests took place on board the helicopter dock Juan Carlos I, 🇪🇸 Navy's largest vessel⛴️
We will support a coalition of
@NATO
Nations with 1.1 BEUR multinational contracts for 155mm
#ammunition
.
With these new contracts, we support NATO's deterrence and defence capabilities while replenishing stocks in
#Europe
and across the Alliance.
👉
NSPA delivers first of 1⃣8⃣ field hospitals🏥to the Italian Armed Forces - 9 will be high-tech treatment centres.
The new facilities will upgrade the 🇮🇹 military field equipment, enhancing
#Italy
's response to medical emergencies
#StrongerTogether
👉
Kudos to
@A330_MMU
for their 1️⃣st Aeromedical Evacuation flight with
#NATO
's MRTT, from Niamey 🇳🇪 ➡ Hamburg 🇩🇪!
Our MRTT fleet:
👉 provides air transport & air-to-air refueling
👉 serves 6⃣Nations🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴
👉 has 7️⃣aircraft already in service
More at
This week we signed a new contract to continue providing support to the PATRIOT surface-to-air guided missiles deployed in Europe.
🇩🇪🇬🇷🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇸🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇪
PATRIOT systems help strengthen
#NATO
's borders protecting populations & territory from missile threats
NAGSMO starts transition of Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) assets to all
#NATO
Allies! As of today
@NSPA_NATO
is responsible of the full life cycle management of the
#AGS
fleet, keeping the system operationally relevant for the 30 Allies🙌
#WeareNato
The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC)✈️has delivered
#COVID19
vaccines to
@usairforce
contingent 🇺🇸 deployed at Campia Turzii, Romania 🇷🇴 Vaccines were administered to 50+ 🇺🇸 aircrew members by
@SAC_Program
medical team.
Read more:
#Strongertogether
How does an MRTT look from an F-16 during an Air-to-Air Refuelling mission⛽️? And vice versa? The Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) performed its first AAR flight test with 🇳🇱F-16s✈️
@Kon_Luchtmacht
@A330_MMU
Check out this new milestone:
#NATO
Alliance Ground Surveillance
#AGS
Force achieves initial operational capability! A major milestone to the benefit of the 3⃣0⃣ Allies.
👉Read more here:
#avgeek
#WeareNATO
We welcome our 1️⃣st Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet (MMF) aircraft ✈️ that arrived safely to its home base in Eindhoven today🇳🇱!
@A330_MMU
A great cooperation project between EU &
@NATO
!⛽️👩✈️🏥
#Strongertogether
👉 Info:
Tons of protective medical equipment arrived in Romania this morning. This is the 5⃣th
#COVID19
mission in support to our Allies✈️
🇷🇴🇨🇿🇸🇰using our strategic airlift programmes to transfer medical supplies & combat the effects of
#coronavirus
.
#WeStandReady
#StrongerTogether
45 tons of medical supplies landed in Bucharest today, the second flight of
#COVID19
equipment to
#Romania
organised through the # NATO-managed Strategic Airlift Capability:
#StrongerTogether
Slovakia 🇸🇰 & Czech Republic 🇨🇿 are using their Strategic Airlift International Solution (
#SALIS
) flight quota to get these much needed medical supplies 📦🏥
#WeStandReady
#ICYMI
: This weekend
@ArmyLuxembourg
deployed a unit of soldiers to Mali 🇲🇱, as part of a
#EU
🇪🇺Training Mission. This was the first operational flight of the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) in support of 🇱🇺 and the first landing in our Host Nation.
Today we handed over 20 heavy vehicles to
#Georgia
🇬🇪 as part of Substantive
#NATO
-Georgia Package. The 🚚will be used for training operations at NATO-Georgian Training & Evaluation Centre. 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇭🇺🇮🇹🇱🇹🇵🇹🇹🇷🇬🇧 &🇳🇴 as lead nation, contributed to the project.
👉
🎥 With this year coming to an end, let's look back at some of the notable moments, challenges & milestones we have reached
#together
. Happy season & Happy 2022! 🙌
@NATO
#Strongertogether
2nd delivery of the week! See this tail number? T-60 corresponds to the 7th aircraft of the Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴
Everything is ready for the ferry flight to Eindhoven 🇳🇱
@A330_MMU
. Thank you
@AirbusDefence
& OCCAR for the great cooperation🤝
¡Feliz Fiesta Nacional de España! 🇪🇸 On 12 October, we join our Ally
#Spain
in its
#DiaDeLaHispanidad
. Happy national day to our Spanish friends & partners🙌
#DYK
? 🇪🇸 will host the next
#NATO
Summit, marking the 40th anniversary of its accession to the Alliance.
📸
@Armada_esp
Luxembourg augments its capabilities to tackle the current
#COVID19
crisis
The
@NSPA_NATO
is providing non-medical support to equip the Centre Hospitalier du Luxembourg (CHL) with 1⃣0⃣0⃣additional beds 🏥🇱🇺
👉Full story here:
#WeStandReady
🎥Strategic airlift capabilities are key to ensure that
@NATO
Allies are able to deploy their forces&equipment rapidly, wherever required ✈NSPA has extended the contract with
@AntonovCompany
#SALIS
to continue providing strategic lift to 9⃣
#NATO
nations
Happy National Day to our Ally
#Belgium
🇧🇪 Gelukkige nationale feestdag! Joyeuse fête nationale! Einen frohen Nationalfeiertag! 🙌
📸 Paratroopers from 🇧🇪 Special Operations Regiment
#A400M
✈
@BelgiumDefence
#WeAreNATO
#Tunisia
🇹🇳 has received 100,000 masks & 15,000 coveralls from the
#NATO
's Pandemic Response Stockpile. The medical supplies will be delivered to the main military hospitals 🏥 NSPA managed the purchase, storage & transportation🚚
#StrongerTogether
👉
📹
#ICYMI
Last week our first of 8⃣
#MRTT
✈️arrived to its home base in Eindhoven 🇳🇱
@A330_MMU
👉Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) - An
#EU
&
@NATO
cooperation project that will provide 🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇴🇳🇱with air-to-air refueling, strategic transport & MEDEVAC capabilities ⛽️✈️
In response to the devastating earthquakes that struck
#T
ürkiye, the
@SAC_Program
has flown six relief missions on behalf of 🇫🇮 🇳🇱🇷🇴🇸🇪🇺🇸, transporting over 160 tonnes of equipment & rescue personnel to the affected areas.
Today, 2nd of June, our Ally
#Italy
🇮🇹 celebrates its national day,
#FestaDellaRepubblica
. This day marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of a democratic Republic in 1946. We wish a happy day to our Italian friends & partners!🙌Buon
#2giugno
Italia 🇮🇹
#WeareNATO
In response to our
#NATO
Allies and partner nations needs in this difficult time, we have launched our new Strategic Aeromedical Evacuation Services✈️🏥available for paediatric patients, infectious patients & repatriation all over the🌎
➡️
#AE
#WeAreNATO
NSPA will support
#Takuba
Task Force, comprised by 8 🇪🇺 countries, led by France 🇫🇷 and engaged in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel. Support includes food & base services, engineering, fuel and intra-theatre transportation.
👉
#Strongertogether
Our first 2⃣Multinational
#MRTT
Fleet (MMF) aircraft ✈️are now in the air performing training missions.
📹Check how
@A330_MMU
pilots are trained to fly this state-of-the-art aircraft!
NSPA continues to support wounded soldiers and veterans in
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 through the
#NATO
Medical Rehabilitation Trust Fund.
This year, Ukraine’s National Team participates in
#warriorgames
for the first time👏
👉
📷 Ukraine Ministry of Veterans Affairs
Strategic Airlift International Solution
#SALIS
Mission ✈️:
#Germany
🇩🇪has sent COVID-19 supplies including PPE, antigen tests & intensive care beds to
#Namibia
🇳🇦
Effort coordinated by the 🇪🇺 Civil Protection Mechanism & mission executed by SALIS.
ℹ️
Our support to
#Afghanistan
🇦🇫 continues: On Sunday we chartered an aicraft w/ 6⃣0⃣tons of soldiers gear, IT equipment & medical consumables procured by NSPA to support the sustainment of the Afghan National Army & the Police.
➡️
#WeAreNATO
@ResoluteSupport
Despite the challenging circumstances our
#mission
continues...
The Spanish Navy has safely received the first 4⃣ of 2⃣4⃣Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIBs)🚤that will help 🇪🇸 to perform search & rescue operations and personnel transfers at sea🌊
#WeStandReady
@Armada_esp
📹
#ICYMI
Last Friday,
@USAID
🇺🇸donated 2⃣0⃣0⃣ ventilators to
@NATO
stockpile of medical supplies. The handover ceremony took place at our Southern Operational Centre in Taranto 🇮🇹
#Strongertogether
Yesterday we were honoured with the visit of 1⃣1⃣
@NATO
Representatives from 🇧🇬🇨🇦🇪🇪🇩🇪🇭🇺🇮🇹 🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱 & 🇸🇮 - Engaging discussions on topics of interest for
#NATO
and the Nations took place, followed by guided tours to our workshops & facilities.
#WeAreNATO
#DYK
? Since 2016, NSPA has been working in infrastructure improvement projects at Siauliai Air Base ✈️🇱🇹, main operating base for
#NATO
's Baltic Air Policing mission.
👉1⃣2⃣ projects completed as part of the 🇺🇸 European Deterrence Initiative (EDI).
More:
Happy National Day
#Spain
! ¡Feliz Fiesta Nacional! 🇪🇸 🙌On 12th October, our ally Spain celebrates its national day, also known as
#DiadelaHispanidad
. Today, in these difficult times, we remain
#strongertogether
and wish a safe & happy day to our Spanish friends & partners!❤️💛❤️