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AIRCOM-led F2T2 training supporting NATO's Eastern Sentry

NATO Allied Air Command

Dec 5 2025

RAMSTEIN, Germany -- On 4 December 2025, Allied forces from six NATO nations - Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States - participated in a NATO-led find, fix, track, and target (F2T2) event in Poland, enhancing Allied integration and interoperability in support of NATO's newest enhanced Vigilance Activity (eVA), Eastern Sentry.

The multi-domain training mission, coordinated and led by NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM), tested the Alliance's ability to operate in complex, contested environments.

The aim of this training activity was to increase multi-domain air defences along the Eastern Flank, focusing on Poland and the Baltic nations, demonstrating Eastern Sentry's agile and adaptive nature.

Eastern Sentry synchronizes all current deterrence and defence measures, such as this F2T2 and NATO's Air Policing mission, along with additional capabilities and national contributions, to ensure the protection and security of NATO territory. Rather than focusing solely on static deployments or patrol rotations, Eastern Sentry operates as a dynamic eVA that can reconfigure itself according to the threat. Its distributed posture allows forces to move fluidly across the eastern flank - from the Baltic States and Poland to the Black Sea region - maintaining constant situational awareness and decision superiority.

Showcasing Eastern Sentry's operational readiness, F2T2 missions require succinct coordination with all warfighter domains - air, land, sea, cyber, and space - to ensure successful execution. F2T2 missions ensure NATO forces are ready to respond to any potential threat to the Alliance. In the condensed training environment of an F2T2, AIRCOM is able to scale activity to focus on the interoperability across systems, as well as standard Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), to ensure Alliance capability. This challenges the technical, the procedural, and the dynamic inputs from each contributing nation to the NATO command structure.

At the core of this multi-domain training is a commitment to improving Allied operations. F2T2s are composed of all-volunteer Allied nations, contributing national assets in a problem-solving environment to collaborate, plan, and debrief. This requires a holistic understanding of the training environment from the operators on the ground supporting Command and Control (C2); to the distributed planners and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) professionals; to the airborne crews and ultimately the senior leaders making the decisions. Multi-domain integration of F2T2s offer opportunities to further improve readiness and the tactical proficiency of Allied forces.

F2T2s test Allies' ability to execute distributed operations, while developing human interoperability. From the perspective of the operator, intense evaluation and collaborative scrutiny on details ensure progression of tactical execution. Learning from one another, participants in an F2T2 develop warfighting trust, identifying best practices and lessons that can be taken forward to the next F2T2 iteration.

To accomplish mission tasks, this F2T2 saw UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons converge with Royal and U.S. Army ground units for the F2T2, demonstrating seamless multi-domain integration. The fighters were refueled by a UK RAF Voyager, providing flexibility and enabling sustained time on mission.

NATO's Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) also provided airborne command and control (C2); cross-domain coordination; and communicated notional targets and locations to air and ground assets within strike capabilities. The Polish also provided on-the-ground tactical C2 during the F2T2.

Allied land forces also provided simulated fires for the AIRCOM-led F2T2 mission, improving sensor-to-shooter collaboration and support.

"Events such as this are a powerful reassurance to our Allies," said U.S. Brigadier General Kevin Jamieson, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations at AIRCOM. "They show that NATO forces can integrate rapidly and effectively, reinforcing our readiness and strengthening deterrence."

The ability to deliver precision integrated multi-domain strike capabilities underscores the steadfast commitment of Eastern Sentry to protect NATO territory and populations on the Eastern Flank, safeguarding the airspace and supporting a stable security environment, deterring potential aggression and impingement on NATO airspace.

Story by Allied Air Command Public Affairs Office