The inside story of Exercise Air Defender 23

A giant exercise under Luftwaffe leadership saw a mass deployment of fighters from the US to Germany to train with their European partners, as Dr Stefan Petersen reports

Air Defender 23 was hailed a superlative exercise – and the result was neatly summed up by the Air Chief of the German Luftwaffe, Lt Gen Ingo Gerhartz, who said: “We can do it!”

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