One of the mission types carried out during the Real Thaw 2022 is the Convoy Escort.

This mission type is understood as the monitoring carried out to land vehicles by aircraft capable of providing protection during their displacement.

This type of mission is most commonly associated with rotary-wing air assets – which include the AW119 “Koala” and the EH-101 Merlin – and is representative of the flexibility of airpower.

The importance of carrying out Convoy Escort missions is related to the need to move people or materials of great value or with high security classification.

Thus, when they need to be moved in theaters of operations where there is a certain level of threat, the presence of rotary wing means the capability of suppressing threats is required, thus providing effective protection, as well as an anticipation in the verification of the routes to be taken.