Sea Lynx in special livery for the Tiger Meet, photo: Bw/Cora Mohrdieck

Sea Lynx in special livery for the Tiger Meet, Photo: Bw/Cora Mohrdieck

Roar like a tiger

30 Sep 2024 | Headlines, Magazine, Armed Forces

The Tiger Meet has been an established NATO event for many years. A Sea Lynx from MFG 5 also took part with its striking special livery.

Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! - The battle cry of the participants at the NATO Tiger Meet 2024, which was organised by Tactical Air Wing 51 at Jagel Air Base for the third time this year after 2004 and 2014, will probably ring in the ears of the "NATO Tigers" for a long time to come.

This year, for the first time in the history of the German Navy, eleven soldiers from Marinefliegergeschwader 5 (MFG 5) from Nordholz took part in this NATO high-value exercise, in which only flying units bearing a feline predator in their emblem are allowed to participate. MFG 5's third helicopter squadron took part in this event with a specially painted Sea Lynx Mk 88A and four squadron members as well as seven technicians from the squadron's Mk 88 technical squadron. The aircraft was

30 Sep 2024

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