ITALY/MACEDONIA: THE BUILD-UP OF NATO MILITARY IN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE AIR STIKES ON KOSOVO

Record ID: 980733

  • Title: ITALY/MACEDONIA: THE BUILD-UP OF NATO MILITARY IN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE AIR STIKES ON KOSOVO
  • Date: 23rd February 1999
  • Summary: TREVISO, ITALY (FEBRUARY 22, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/CU OF ENTRANCE TO THE ISTRANA AIR BASE NEAR TREVISO/SIGN (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. LV OF MIRAGE AIRCRAFT PARKED IN FRONT OF HANGAR 0.15 3. SLV/SV OF MIRAGE AIRCRAFT/MISSILES ATTACHED TO THE AIRCRAFT (4 SHOTS) 0.33 4. LV/SLV OF JAGUAR PLANES ON TARMAC/ LIVE AMMUNITION (2 SHOTS) 0.42 GRAZZANISE, ITALY (FEBRUARY 22, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 5. LV/SLV RENTRANCE TO GRAZZANISE AIR BASE (2 SHOTS) 0.51 6. SLV NORWEGIAN F-16 MOVING TOWARDS RUNWAY/SOLDIERS WATCHING/CONTROL TOWER (3 SHOTS) 1.15 7. LV OF NORWEGIAN F-16s TAKING OFF FOR FLYING MISSION (2 SHOTS) 1.37 8. SV SOLDIER WATCHING/PILOT IN COCKPIT (2 SHOTS) 1.44 9. LV NORWEGIAN AND DANISH F-16 PARKED AT BASE 1.48 10. SLV AIR CONTROLLER BY MISSILE/SOLDIER WORKING ON AIRCRAFT (2 SHOTS) 1.55 11. MCU (ENGLISH) NORWEGIAN LIEUTENANT COLONEL LARS AAMODT SAYING: 'We are on a very high state of readiness and we are ready to fulfill the Nato obligations given the time frame that Nato has given us'...We are ready to conduct operations in more or less 48 hours' 2.18 12. LV NORWEGIAN F-16s ON RUNWAY/ TAKING OFF (2 SHOTS) 2.32 AVIANO, ITALY (FEBRUARY 23, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. LV OF AIRBASE 2.38 14. SV NATO, ITALY AND U.S FLAGS FLYING AT BASE 2.42 15. SV PLANE SEEN THROUGH WIRE FENCE 2.47 16. LV/SLV LASER-GUIDED BOMBS AND MISSILES ON TARMAC/MEN PREPARING TO LOAD BOMBS (3 SHOTS) 3.15 17. CU EXPLOSIVES SIGN 3.18 18. SV MISSILE ATTACHED TO CRANE 3.25 19. MCU (ENGLISH) U.S. AIRFORCE CAPTAIN LEWIS (NO FIRST NAME GIVEN) SAYING "I would imagine that one of the things we would be doing is scare tactics - coming in and making some craters and pinpointing the places they have communications centres, something like that." 3.39 20. LV/CU/SV MISSILES ON TARMAC (3 SHOTS) 3.50 21. MCU (ENGLISH) PILOT LT COL RAY DISSINGER "Everything is ready and we are prepared if called upon. Certainly we would also hope for a diplomatic solution as I am sure you all would, and we will stand by for words from our national command authority and from NATO command." 4.06 22. LV/SLV OF JETS IN HANGAR AND BEING TOADED ONTO TARMAC (3 SHOTS) 4.30 PETROVEC AIRPORT, SKOPJE, MACEDONIA (FEBRUARY 23, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 23. LV/SLV/SV RUSSIAN ANTONOV CARGO PLANE FLYING INTO AIRPORT (3 SHOTS) 4.47 24. SLV C-130 FLYING INTO AIRPORT AS ANTONOV TAXIS 4.51 25. CU/SLV AMERICAN C-130 TAXIING/C-130'S ON RUNWAY (2 SHOTS) 5.02 26. SLV BRITISH ARMY VEHICLES COMING OFF CARGO PLANE 5.07 27. LV OF VEHICLE COMING OFF ANTONOV 5.14 28. SLV/LV CHARTER PLANE ON TARMAC, NEW AND REPLACEMENT BRITISH TROOPS COMING OFF PLANE IN PLAIN CLOTHES AND UNIFORMS (3 SHOTS) 5.27 KRASTE TRAINING AREA, OUTSIDE SKOPJE (FEBRUARY 23, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 29. SLV/SV OF BRITISH SOLDIERS RUNNING WITH GUNS AND GEAR DURING EXERCISE (2 SHOTS) 5.36 30. SLV/SV/MCU OF TROOPS LYING ON GROUND FIRING GUNS (4 SHOTS) 5.50 31. SV TROOPS STUDYING TARGET 5.56 32. SLV OF TROOPS RUNNING 6.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: TREVISO, GRAZZANISE, AVIANO, ITALY, SKOPJE, MACEDONIA
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  • Country: Italy Macedonia
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