NATO Secretary General with the President of Slovakia 🇸🇰 Peter Pellegrini,28 JUN 2024

Exact date:Outgoing Nethelands Prime Minister Mark Rutte will succeed Jens Stoltenberg as Secretary General on 1 October 2024,when Mr.Stoltenberg's 10-year term expires.*The new border security fortifications under discussion are up to each NATO Ally seperately,and not the Alliance itself.

NATO:Norway Shelters F-35 As in Hanger Inside Mountain

Source:NATO article based on Royal Norwegian Air Force information - Bardufoss,Norway - 17 JUN 2024 - The Royal Norwegian Air Force continues to develop national operational concepts increasing combat aircraft survivability,as in mid-June Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters landed at Bardufoss Air Station taking back hangers and facilities deactivated for 40 years.The natural features of Bardufoss Air Station provide excellent protection for combat aircraft.The mountain hanger has recieved structural and equipment upgrades to increase its use for air operations.In the long term,this may lead to increased national and Allied fighter aircraft activity in the region of Northern Norway around the air station.Said BGEN Tom Strand of the Joint Air Operations Centre (JAOC):Bardufoss Air Station plays an important role in the further development of Norwegian,Nordic and Allied Air Power.NATO is very focused on the Nations' ability to disperse and quickly move air forces through development of Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept.The deteriorating security policy and the war in Ukraine mean that the Air Force must become sharper.Powerful stealth fighters are not enough.In a war situation,the planes are vulnerable on the ground.On the one hand,we are significantly increasing air defence for Evenes and Orland Air Bases.On the other,the Air Force must be able to disperse its combat aircraft and operate out of several other airports and air stations,both in Norway and Nordic countries if a crisis or war so requires.*Said COL Erik Stueland,commander of 131 Air Wing:This means we must use available mountain facilities for protection within the framework of Norway's operational distribution concept;we are using the entire Air Station at Bardufoss.The whole idea of dispersion is to be able to use all available airports throughout the Nordic Region;at Bardufoss,due to its existing infrastructure,we will also be able to play a large role in the initial mobilisation phase.*ACE is NATO's concept to strengthen the resilience and survivability of Allied Air operations.It combines already existing air bases with temporary operational bases,and positions combat air power through the dispersal of resources.*Lockheed Martin (LMT)

NATO Secretary General with 🇫🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron, 24 JUN 2024

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LIVE US AIR FORCE F-15 & F-35 ACTION 48TH FIGHTER WING • RAF LAKENHEATH ENGLAND 21.06.24 - YouTube

The aircraft are the nuclear-capable U.S. Air Force 48th Fighter Wing Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter and the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle fighter.The base's nuclear storage mission ws terminated in 2008 in the belief that the Cold War was over.Yet the first Russian invasion of Ukraine with little green men in 2014 and the second full-on war against Ukraine launched in February 2022 has caused NATO to revive the nuclear storage mission.Documents show a large underground surety dormitory for storing the Boeing B61-12 nuclear bomb is under construction,along with ballistic-sheathed shelters for Air Force Security Forces.*Boeing (BA),Lockheed Martin (LMT)*The B61-12 has an adjustable range of missions,from tactical nuclear to thermonuclear kilotonnes.*The UK will neither confirm nor deny the project.

What Mark Rutte as a new NATO chief means for Ukraine | DW News - YouTube - New Secretary General Chosen

Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte is to be the next NATO Secretary General.Jens Stoltenberg will retire in September.Analysis:The problem with an Eastern Flank Secretary General is they could press for stationing NATO troops on Ukrainian soil,which is viewed as escalatory by many member states.