As many as 660 military personnel from 14 NATO countries and two countries of the Partnership for Peace are taking part in MACE XVI air combat exercises taking place in Slovakia at the moment, at the Sliač Airbase and the training facility at Lest, central Slovakia.
The exercises are being used to practice air combat with fighters and to train methods of overcoming anti-air defences using tactical aircraft in conditions of radio-electronic interference, with simulation of the most difficult conditions in modern conflicts. This is already the second MACE XVI exercise in Slovakia, with the previous one held in 2012.
Katarína Richterová
