At Beja Air Base, Portugal, Allied and Partner jets operate alongside each other executing challenging flying missions on a daily basis. Pilots from Allies Norway, Portugal and partners Sweden and Finland get together before every take-off to meticulously prepare and coordinate their missions. Together with their ground crews they conduct final pre-flight checks and taxi for take-off. Allied and Partner jets are launched for combined air operations. Their missions include training for defensive and offensive air operations and practicing air-to-air refueling, combat search and rescue, air support for land and naval forces, and tactical air transport operations.
Journalist: PAO, NATO Media Information Center Beja Interview: OF1 André Pires, Camera: OR6 Emanuel Santos, OR3 Renato Pereira, Editing: OF1 David Cardoso
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Rear side of F-18
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F-18 rolling, front view
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F-16 formation
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Pilot in jet fighter
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360 degree of American F-16
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH):
Major Sullivan, American pilot, 480th Fighter Squadron DET/CC, United States Air Forces
“The ability to interoperate amongst the NATO and Partnership nations is unprecedented here. There’s over 30 countries participating and the ability for us to train, plan and fly alongside of our Allied partners is an incredible opportunity that we have here.”
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Mass Briefing gopro footage of crowd
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Gripen taking off
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American crew checking aircrafts
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f-16 formation
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360 degrees of F-18
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Lt Col Wikström, 211. Fighter Squadron Company, Sweden
“To come together and work together and train together and get to know each other so that we’ll be ready to solve some possible tasks during 2016. So it’s for me and my squadron it’s very important exercise to take part in.”
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Gripen crossing taxi way gopro footage
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Military personnel talking
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American F-16 rolling
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Gripen rolling and turning left
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360 degrees of Norwegian F-16
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Lt Col Kleppe, 16th Unit Norweigan Air Force DET/CC
“It’ll give us great advantages when we come to future operations and have to work together in different scenarios.”
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All the senior commanders in mission planning
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360 degrees of Portuguese F-16 fighters
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): “Splinter”, Portuguese 301 Fighter Pilot
“We will try always to get the same procedures within the nations and achieve a common knowledge of what we intend to do every day, every mission that we perform.”
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Front view of air refuel footage
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Pilots view of air refuel footage
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Norwegian commander close up in ops room
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Focus switch from Portuguese to Norwegian flags on uniforms
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Lt Col Kleppe, 16th Unit Norweigan Air Force DET/CC
“We have met all the other nations and are working closely together already so it looks like to be a success.”
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All the pilots in ops room, top view
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH):
Major Sullivan, American pilot, 480th Fighter Squadron DET/CC, United States Air Forces
“It’s important that we know how the different nations will operate in the air and on the ground. And these events that we have here allow us to get to know the pilots who we will be called to fly alongside of.”
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Close up of map in ops room, camera moves up to American commander
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Portuguese pilot speaking in ops room
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Another top view of pilots in ops room
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): “Splinter”, Portuguese 301 Fighter Pilot
“If we were to deploy to different, to actual scenarios, it’s different if you know already who you need to talk to, who are you going to talk, to get information from.
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Ops room footage of Portuguese pilot
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Focus on Finnish commander in ops room
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Major Böhm, Finnish Air Force DET/CC
“It’s an opportunity for us to evaluate our own abilities and cooperation skills.”
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Focus on uniform patches
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Close traveling of pilots with Portuguese F-16 on the background
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): “Splinter”, Portuguese 301 Fighter Pilot
“We have a lot of assets every day flying towards one objective and by that everyone is capable and will have the knowledge of what the other assets are able to perform and then in the future scenario if we go and deploy somewhere, then everyone knows and has the knowledge of what you can expect from your friend, from different nations.”
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Ops room, Finnish and Swedish commanders listen to Portuguese pilot
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Close up of map
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Full travelling of all the pilots with F-16 on the background
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