Operation Daedalus 2014 – Sion Air Base.

Operation Daedalus 2014 once again combined both Swiss & Austrian Air Force assets to secure airspace for this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos in the Swiss Alps from 22 to 25 January.  Steve Comber reports from Sion Air Base, home to the Swiss Air Force contingent for the duration.

With Austrian Eurofighter EF2000s operating from Graz-Thalerhof in Austria, Swiss Air Force WEF air policing operations work on a three-year rotational basis between Meiringen, Payerne and, once again, in 2014 it was Sion’s turn to ‘make some noise’.

F/A-18 Hornets and F-5E Tigers were tasked complex airspace denial and surveillance operations with airspace restricted to a radius of 25 miles around Davos and Montreux and both with a central six mile ‘no fly zone’ strictly enforced.

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