Bélgica é demasiado pequena para usar os seus novos aviões de combate?

Name: Bélgica é demasiado pequena para usar os seus novos aviões de combate?
Uploaded: 2025-10-30T15:10:18+00:00
Duration: 1 min 59 s
Channel: euronews (em português)

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Bélgica é demasiado pequena para usar os seus novos aviões de combate?

Os meios de comunicação social franceses têm ridicularizado a Bélgica por ter comprado caças que não poderá utilizar em exercícios de treino dada a dimensão reduzida do seu espaço aéreo, mas este facto foi sempre tido em conta, segundo as autoridades belgas.

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00:00Is Belgium too small a country to use its new fighter jets?

00:07Belgium has found itself the butt of several jokes online

00:11after various French media outlets reported that the country bought a fleet of F-35 fighter jets

00:17that it won't be able to use because its airspace is too small.

00:21The articles all begin with the same sentiment,

00:23leaning into the friendly French-Belgian rivalry by referring to a Blague-Belge,

00:28or Belgian joke, and noting the €5.6 billion sum that the government shelled out

00:34for 34 of the US-made jets back in 2018.

00:38But there's just one problem, according to the French articles.

00:41Being a small country, it won't have enough room to conduct any training exercises with them,

00:46as doing so would impact civil aviation.

00:49However, the jokes are making a mountain out of a molehill,

00:52according to Belgium's Defence Minister Theo Franken.

00:54Taking to X, he explained that the small size of Belgium's airspace is nothing new,

00:59and that, to make up for it, the country has been carrying out aerial training exercises

01:03both at home and abroad with other jets for years.

01:07As well as planned exercises in Belgium, he said the country is currently in talks

01:11with the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, and other countries

01:14to allow its pilots to train in their airspaces,

01:17and that ultimately that's what the NATO alliance is for.

01:20He also assured that military training exercises would not affect commercial flights,

01:25and that there'd be enough room for both in Belgium's skies,

01:28despite a 700% increase in civil traffic over the country since 1980.

01:33The Cube also reached out to Virginie Floine,

01:36senior captain at the Belgian Air Force,

01:38who confirmed much of what Franken said.

01:40She said that the situation is the same as it has always been

01:43when it comes to Belgium's military jets,

01:45and that while it's possible to perform some training exercises in the country,

01:50the solution is becoming increasingly international.

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