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Swift Blade 2020 **CANCELLED**

Latest update: March 2020

The exercise planned to be held from April 13 until April 30 was cancelled by the Department of Defence due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Gilze-Rijen would have hosted the participating helicopters with flying operations taking place in Belgium and The Netherlands.. (Low) flying areas: Swift Blade exercise locations (Netherlands only). Participants: Below countries were mentioned in a tweet by the Belgian Air Component. Helicopter specialist of these countries attended the planning conference. Missions will be flown in both Belgium and The Netherlands.

"Planned" Participants Swift Blade 2020

Country: Aircraft: No. aircraft: Squadron / Wing: Airbase: Comments: Austria AB212 2 lTHSSta Tulln-Langenlebarn     OH-58B 2 mTHSSta Tulln-Langenlebarn     S-70A 1 mTHSSta Tulln-Langenlebarn   Belgium A109HA 3 17 Smaldeel Beauvechain     NH90-TTH 2 18 Smaldeel Beauvechain   Germany NH90-TTH 10 THR-10, THR-30       Tiger 2 KHR36 Fritzlar   Hungary Mi-24P/V 2 87HE Szolnok   Netherlands AS-532U2 2 300 squadron Gilze-Rijen     CH-47D 2 298 squadron Gilze-Rijen     AH-64D 4 301 squadron Gilze-Rijen     NH90-NFH 1 860 squadron De Kooy   Portugal EH101 1 Esq751 Montijo   Slovakia UH-60M 1 1. Vrtul'niková letka Presov   Slovenia AS532AL 1 152Le Ljubljana (Brnik)               Total   36