Arctic Tigers: the most interesting participants at the NATO Tiger Meet 2012 at Ørland, Norway

June 13, 2012 Military Aviation

David Cenciotti

This year’s NATO Tiger Meet was hosted by the 338 Skvadron of the Royal Norwegian Air Force at Ørland MAS, in Norway between May 29 and Jun. 8.

As always, many aircraft sported eye-catching special color schemes or “Tiger” markings, as the following images taken by The Aviationist’s contributor Tony Lovelock show.

Image credit: Tony Lovelock

Special colored F-16 chasing C-130 Hercules over Oslo during an air-to-air photoshoot generates panic among Norwegians (theaviationist.com)
This picture proves the importance of fighter jets camouflage schemes for survival (theaviationist.com)
Norwegian P-3 maritime patrol aircraft’s close encounter with an aggressive Russian Mig-31 Foxhound (theaviationist.com)

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.