NATO Tiger Meet 2014’s most fancy combat planes

June 25, 2014 Military Aviation
David Cenciotti

NATO Tiger Meet is an annual exercise that gathers squadrons sporting Tiger (or feline) emblems. Planes that attend it, usually get painted in tiger outfits. As happened during 2014 edition in Germany.

NATO Tiger Meet (NTM) is a two-week multi-national mid-size exercise that includes all types of air-to-air and air-to-ground and a wide variety of support missions, comprising CSAR and large COMAOs (Composite Air Operations).

NTM2014 (with spotters days on Jun. 19 and 23) was held at Schleswig – Jagel, in northern Germany.

Along with the first Eurofighter Typhoon in tiger color scheme, several other aircraft attended the drills with brand new, flamboyant tiger color schemes: French Rafales, Polish F-16 Block 52+ jets, Turkish F-16Cs, and Czech JAS-39 Gripen sported cool tiger liveries.

Eurofighter Typhoon

The images in this post, showing some of the most fancy special colored combat planes, were taken by The Aviationist’s photographer Tony Lovelock during NTM2014.

Who wins?

211 Sqn CzAF

Czech AF JAS-39 Gripen 211 Sqn

 

211 Sqn JAS 39

Czech AF JAS-39 211 Sqn

 

313 Sqn

Royal Netherlands AF F-16 313 Sqn

 

F-16 31 Sqn

Belgian AF F-16 31 Sqn

 

F-16 Polaf.pdf

Polish AF F-16 Block 52+ 6 Sqn

 

JAS39 Gripen

Czech AF JAS-39 Gripen 211 Sqn

 

Mirage 2000

French AF Mirage 2000-5F ECE 05.330

 

Rafale

French AF Rafale EC 1/7

 

Typhoon taxi

German AF Eurofighter Typhoon Fighterwing 74.

 

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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.

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4 Comments

  1. I mean they are nice eh… the only question is, what’s the point? Is it a “pimp my jet fighter reality show” or an actual defense exercise?

  2. It is almost a small scale Red Flag as is held at Nellis AFB, NV, USA. I was a participant in Red Flag 12-2 in February of 2012. I was the crew chief on and F-16D with in a Test and Evaluation Squadron from Edwards AFB, CA, USA. I am a civilian employee of the USAF.

  3. Because its a tradition…if you had googled “NATO Tiger Meet association”, you would have known why.

    And give me a break over the cost involved for the taxpayer. It is negligible at best. In fact, in many cases, the painters have to buy the paint with their own money and have to work overtime to complete those special color schemes.

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