The number of flights by NATO surveillance aircraft over the Netherlands went up rather than down last year, said junior defence minister Jack de Vries in a letter to MPs this week, reports the Volkskrant.Some 2,840 flights were made by AWACS aircraft in 2008 compared with 2,784 in the preceding year, said De Vries who has been asked by parliament to reduce this number to 2,600.
The planes cause considerable nuisance because of the noise they produce.
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Any particular reason AWACS are flying over Holland? Must be hundreds of Russian overflights to justify it!
ReplyDeleteOr is it merely a waste of money? NATO has AWACS therefore they should be flown intensively - training for the hoped for hot war in the Ukraine or Middle East - thousands of miles from Holland?
The Geilenkirchen (Germany) runway ends a couple of hundred yards from the Dutch border. So they always overfly the city of Schinveld.
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