Exercise Swift Blade/Purple Nectar

Piet Luijken · Post by **Piet Luijken** » 07 Jan 2020, 21:01

In weeks 16, 17 and 18 exercises, Swift-Blade and Purple Nectar will take place at EHGR.
Start tuesday 14 april, end 1 may.

according SIS participants are:
AustrAF, BAC, HungAF, ItAF, RNLAF, SlovakAF and RSwedAF.

witje · Post by **witje** » 07 Jan 2020, 21:12

According to EU Defence Agency also Germany will participate. They also mention Slovenia iso Slovakia.

Thijs · Post by **Thijs** » 07 Jan 2020, 21:13

Isn't purple nectar not a kind of IT conference/ exhibition? At least that's what Google tells me.

Reaper01 · Post by **Reaper01** » 07 Jan 2020, 21:26

Yes it is Thijs. And during swiftblade nice choppers are expected to join the exercise

SquAdmin · Post by **SquAdmin** » 08 Jan 2020, 09:49

April 13th is Easter Monday, so I suppose the real start will be on the 14th.

nilsko · Post by **nilsko** » 08 Jan 2020, 10:57

Thijs wrote:Isn't purple nectar not a kind of IT conference/ exhibition? At least that's what Google tells me.

Correct. Last year it was at the Bernhardkazerne and some (Dutch) choppers did participate. Nice that they combine it with Swift Blade this year.

boldy · Post by **boldy** » 18 Jan 2020, 20:33

Does anyone know if there wil be activity on the Belgian airfield in Weelde during this exercise?
Last week there where Belgian and Dutch military vehicles on the airfield, looks that they where preparing an exercise.

Pauljos2001 · Post by **Pauljos2001** » 20 Jan 2020, 19:24

[quote="nilsko"][quote="Thijs"]Isn't purple nectar not a kind of IT conference/ exhibition? At least that's what Google tells me.[/quote]
Correct. Last year it was at the Bernhardkazerne and some (Dutch) choppers did participate. Nice that they combine it with Swift Blade this year.[/quote]

Also fighter activity at Weelde in the same time. (BAF or RNLAF ?!?)

Guinness · Post by **Guinness** » 04 Feb 2020, 10:39

Participanting a/c:
Mi-24
Mi 8
AB- 212
OH-58
Tigre
NH-90
CH-53
UH-60

Zonan · Post by **Zonan** » 04 Feb 2020, 11:46

Cool!
Do you also know which helis are from which country?

Regards, Zonan

Guinness · Post by **Guinness** » 12 Feb 2020, 08:08

Sorry, not really.
A pilot on EHGR gave me the list last week.

AK01 · Post by **AK01** » 12 Feb 2020, 08:53

A bit if guessing allowed? combining SIS with Guinness:
Mi-24 Hungarian
Mi 8 Hungarian
AB- 212 Austria and or Italy
OH-58 Austria
Tigre Several
NH-90 Several
CH-53 Germany
UH-60 Slovak/ Austria or Sweden

witje · Post by **witje** » 12 Feb 2020, 09:09

UH-60 will be Sweden, Slovakia will not take part of the exercise.
Tigre will most likely be a German one, because France isn’t on the list.

BaasG · Post by **BaasG** » 12 Feb 2020, 09:16

Guessing with Guinness is always a good idea

My guess with the APROC 2018 list in mind:
Mi-24 Poland
Mi 8 Poland
AB- 212 Italy
OH-58 Austria
Tigre Germany
NH-90 France
CH-53 Germany
UH-60 Sweden

witje · Post by **witje** » 12 Feb 2020, 09:34

BaasG wrote:Guessing with Guinness is always a good idea

My guess with the APROC 2018 list in mind:
Mi-24 Poland
Mi 8 Poland
AB- 212 Italy
OH-58 Austria
Tigre Germany
NH-90 France
CH-53 Germany
UH-60 Sweden

APROC is a total different exercise. France and Poland aren’t on the list.

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