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German Eurofighter Typhoons secure skies over NATO’s eastern flank

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German Eurofighter Typhoons are helping to secure the skies over NATO’s eastern flank. The detachment is currently based in Romania, as part of NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission.

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Publication date 12 November 2025
Filming date 13 October 2025
Location Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Romania
Version B-roll
Themes AirPolicing

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The German Air Force, deployed to Romania, are helping to secure NATO’s eastern flank skies as part of NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission. German Eurofighter Typhoons arrived in August 2025 at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base to begin their rotation. Under the enhanced Air Policing mission, the fighters and their pilots stand a 24-hour watch, ready to launch within 15 minutes of alert. Air Policing is a peacetime activity intended to preserve the safety and security of Allied airspace. NATO air traffic controllers may order an interception if they detect an unknown aircraft skirting by or entering Allied airspace. Often, this is a civilian aircraft with a faulty transponder or broken communications equipment. Often, however, Russian military aircraft will pass by Allied airspace without responding to radio calls or otherwise identifying themselves. In September, Russian MiG-31 fighters brazenly violated Estonian airspace, only leaving under the escort of Italian Air Force fighters on an Air Policing rotation. While the Romanian Air Force has supersonic fighter jets capable of intercepting an aircraft, NATO Allies deploy rotations of fighters to supplement their capabilities. With more jets on alert, Romania is safer, and NATO is more secure. Footage includes shots of air crew, jets taking off and landing plus soundbites from Detachment Commander Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Kötting, German Air Force, and a German Air Force pilot who goes by the call sign ‘Tenne’.

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(00:00) MEDIUM PANNING SHOT – VIEW OF AIR BASE HANGARS at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base (00:05) VARIOUS SHOTS – PILOT RUNNING TOWARDS HANGAR AND CLIMBING INTO EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET (00:17) VARIOUS SHOTS – PILOT SECURES HIMSELF INTO THE COCKPIT AND PUTS ON HELMET (00:32) VARIOUS SHOTS – PILOT RUNNING TOWARDS CAMERA AND AIRCRAFT HANGAR (00:48) WIDE SHOT – EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET PARKED INSIDE HANGAR (00:55) VARIOUS SHOTS – EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET SLOWLY MANOEUVRES AWAY FROM HANGAR (01:09) WIDE SHOT - EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET PREPARING FOR TAKE OFF (01:25) WIDE SHOT – EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET TAKES OFF (01:40) GO PRO SHOT – VIEW FROM INSIDE THE COCKPIT, OF THE PILOT AND THE SURROUNDING SCENERY BEHIND HIM DURING TAKE-OFF (02:41) VARIOUS SHOTS - EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET FLYING IN THE SKY AND THEN APPROACHING RUNWAY TO LAND (03:06) VARIOUS SHOTS - EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET TAXIING ON RUNWAY BEFORE CREW MEMBER CONDUCTS POST LANDING PROCEDURES (03:22) MEDIUM SHOT – EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET TAXIING ACROSS RUNWAY (03:35) MEDIUM SHOT – STATIONARY EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET AGAINST CLOUDY BACKDROP (03:42) MEDIUM SHOT – TRUCK WITH TOW BAR, PUSHES EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET BACKWARDS INTO POSITION (03:49) WIDE SHOT – AIRCRAFT HANGARS (03:55) VARIOUS SHOTS – PILOT WALKS TOWARDS HANGAR AND BEGINS HIS INSPECTION OF THE EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET (04:34) VARIOUS SHOTS – PILOT KNEELING IN FRONT OF EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET (04:44) VARIOUS SHOTS – VARIOUS ANGLES OF THE EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET INSIDE THE HANGAR (06:19) SLO MO SHOT [NO SOUND] – PILOT WALKING TOWARDS EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET (06:27) VARIOUS SLO MO SHOTS [NO SOUND] – PILOT STANDING IN FRONT OF EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON JET AND WALKING PAST, AWAY AND TOWARDS HANGAR [06:57] SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – DETACHMENT COMMANDER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS KÖTTING, GERMAN AIR FORCE “An air interception is usually triggered by an unidentified flying object heading towards NATO territory. We are with our jets, we are very quick and we can cover a wide area of operations. So we can go there very quickly, we can enhance situational awareness, we can look basically at the target, look what it is, and we can determine if it poses a threat to NATO. And if it does so, we are determined to engage it with our options available and to defend and deter our NATO territory here on the most eastern flank”. [07:27] SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – DETACHMENT COMMANDER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS KÖTTING, GERMAN AIR FORCE “For myself, my pilots and my entire team, this is a very meaningful mission here. And we are trained to do this. We train this on a daily basis, every day at home, and we are ready for this mission. And here we can show and demonstrate what it means to bring stability to Europe”. [07:44] SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LIEUTENANT COLONEL ‘TENNE’, GERMAN AIR FORCE “When we take off on a hot alpha scramble, then everything is happening pretty fast. So it's an intense moment for us sitting in the cockpit, getting airborne within minutes. We practise that along the normal training events that we have in our squadron back at home, but it's always something when you go airborne and you don't really know what's gonna happen, then it's happening quick and you need to react in a perfect manner. And that's what we try to practise, and that's what we're here for, to establish the security of the people around”. [08:13] SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LIEUTENANT COLONEL ‘TENNE’, GERMAN AIR FORCE “There’s no room for mistakes in what we do here. So that keeps me motivated each day to be as close to perfection as it gets to be a good part of the team and to help to secure whatever what we do here”. [08:29] SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LIEUTENANT COLONEL ‘TENNE’, GERMAN AIR FORCE “The best part about the Typhoon is thrust that can bring us in the air within seconds. And just not make it stop. Whenever you advance the throttle to the max reheat section, then everything is gonna happen pretty fast and that's so cool”.

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