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Belgian Air Force radar trace charts from the March 30–31, 1990 F-16 interception over central Belgium, presented by Col. Wilfried De Brouwer at NATO headquarters on July 11, 1990.
Belgian Air Force radar trace charts from the March 30–31, 1990 F-16 interception over central Belgium, presented by Col. Wilfried De Brouwer at NATO headquarters on July 11, 1990.
On the night of March 30–31, 1990, the Glons NATO Control Reporting Centre and Semmerzake air traffic control radar tracked unidentified targets over central Belgium, prompting two F-16s to scramble from Beauvechain. Across nine interception attempts, the F-16 onboard radars registered six lock-ons at 5–8 nautical miles, with recorded traces showing targets accelerating from roughly 150 km/h to over 1,100 km/h and shifting altitude between 150 m and 3,000 m within seconds. Col. Wilfried De Brouwer, Chief of Operations, presented the declassified radar charts at a NATO press conference in Evere, Brussels on July 11, 1990. This entry is the chart-set portion of the file; the page itself carries no extractable text beyond the description blurb.