From 14 to 25 June 2004, NATO organized exercise ‘Clean Hunter’. One of the participating airfields in this exercise was Twenthe Air Base in the Netherlands. The Hellenic Air Force deployed three F-16A’s and one F-16B from 346 Mira, stationed at Larissa AB in Greece, to Twente AB. We visited Twenthe on Tuesday 15 June 2004 to capture the participating local Dutch F-16’s from 313 and 315 Squadron and the visiting Hellenic Vipers.

Clean Hunter
This annual exercise focuses on coordinated allied air operations over Western Europe. Air forces from Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States took part in this years’ exercise. Clean Hunter involves many different types of aircraft. It is being run concurrently with and is linked to other land and sea exercises, allowing for joint planning and operations to be practiced.
The exercise areas extend from mid-France to Denmark and from the United Kingdom to mid-Poland. Participating nations will mainly fly from their home bases, except for those nations deploying aircraft into Northern Europe.
Clean Hunter was organized from 1999 to 2005. In 2006 Clean Hunter was replaced by the annual Brilliant Arrow exercise.