The Opening Ceremony of ETAP-T 2023 took place yesterday, July 2nd, at Air Base 11, Beja, where the aircraft involved in this exercise will be operating.Presiding over the ceremony, where the flags of the 13 nations participating in the exercise(...)

In the HotBlade 2023 exercise, a Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) mission was carried out with the Air Force's Nucleus of Tactical Projection Operations (NOTP), together with a Belgian Shepherd – belonging to the NOTP binomial(...)

The HotBlade 2023 exercise represents the 6th edition of the “Hot Blade” series in Portugal. This training activity is performed under the umbrella of the Helicopter Exercise Program (HEP) of the European Defense Agency (EDA), created(...)

Today was the day for photography lovers to visit Hotlade 2023. Close to 50 people went to Air Base No. 11, in Beja, to photograph the helicopters participating in the multinational exercise. After the in processing was carried out, the spotters(...)

Yesterday, June 12th, during the day, an Air Assault mission was carried out in Hot Blade 2023 (HB23). This mission consists of infiltrating troops into the terrain using rotary-wing aircraft. The main objective of this type of mission is to(...)

The 7th edition of Hotblade began last Wednesday, June 7th, with the opening ceremony, while air activity began the morning of the following day where some of the helicopters committed to Hotblade 2023 (HB23) made themselves heard from Air Base(...)