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The history of the tiger meet go back to 1961 when the first tiger meet was held at RAF Woodbridge on July 19th, England. At the first meet there where only three squadrons
participating with on thing in common, a tiger in the squadron badge. The units where
79th Tactical Fighter Squadron USAF, 74 Squadron RAF and EC1/12 of the French Air Force.
Tiger Meets are the Associations reason for being. While in the early days the Tiger Meet was mainly a social get together from Tiger squadrons things changed rapidly and tactical
flying exercises were soon implemented into the Tiger Meet program.
On a typical Tiger Meet flying program you will find missions like: range firing, air-to-air, low level navigation and COMAO missions... all of them with briefings and debriefings. Due
to the growing helicopter force within the Tigers they are integrated within the mission as Forward Air Controllers or in a CSAR role. Beside their work within the COMAO's the helicopter force often practices with local army (special) forces.
Some of the last 4 NATO Tiger Meets were even incorporated into larger scale exercises like AIRNORTH's Clean Hunter 01 and Daring Eagle 02. |
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At this Tiger meet the following squadrons participated
142 SQN Spain Mirage F-1 ,192 SQN Turkey F-16, EC 1/12 France Mirage 2000, EC 05/330 France Mirage 2000 and Rafale, JBG 32 Germany Tornado, 31 SQN Belgium F-16, 301 SQN Portugal F-16,
1 SQN NATO AWACS, AG 51 Germany Tornado, 338 SQN Norway F-16, 231 SQN Chez republic MI24/MI17 and 230 SQN United Kingdom PUMA
Over the years the last 40 years the Tiger Association has grown from three members to over twenty members . Sadly not all of the members of the first few years are operational squadrons
anymore. With the ongoing reduction of the armed forces the association may still become even smaller.
The Association announced that 338 SKv at Orland, Norway will host the 2007 event for the first time.
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