Norway’s top air force officer wants NATO to consider greenlighting a new “Nordic air operations center” to control air missions in the region, should Sweden and Finland ultimately be approved as new members of the transatlantic alliance.
Maj. Gen. Rolf Folland, chief of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, told Breaking Defense that he has already begun thinking about opportunities for better integration with Sweden and Finland’s air forces, with the air operations center the one he plans to “explore with my foreign colleagues the most.”