German Air Force Weapons School
The Air Force Weapons School trains key personnel for joint air operations to become weapons instructors.
Weapons instructors are experts in their field and trained to the highest level in integration, tactical leadership and tactical doctrine.
After completing the weapons instructor course (WICWeapons Instructor Course), which lasts several months, the newly trained weapons instructors return to their units to serve as instructors and central points of contact for all tactical issues. Typically, this is followed by flying assignments in major commands and force development units. Only a few of them can return to the Air Force Weapons School as instructors and train new weapons instructors.
Currently, the weapons instructor course (WICWeapons Instructor Course) covers the following personnel: Eurofighter and Tornado mission crews, officers from the tactical air command and control service and military intelligence officers. It is planned to extend this to the field of tactical air lift (TALTactical Air Lift) and to integrate the A400M.
The Weapons School makes a significant contribution to the advancement, verification and documentation of tactics and procedures in the German Air Force.
Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Neumeister
LTC Neumeister is the commander of the Weapons School and Typhoon Pilot. He graduated from Weapons School in 2012 on the weapon system Tornado, in Holloman AFB. As an exchange pilot he flew couple years F-16C in the USUnited States Air Force. Between 2020 and 2024 he was Eurofighter Branch Head and Weapons Instructor at the Weapons School.
The GAFGerman Air Force Weapons School was inaugurated as an independent unit on 1 October 2019. The Commander reports directly to the Commander Flying Units in the Air Force Command.
guiding principle FIGHT.LEAD.INSTRUCT.
Graduates since commissioning: 30 Current Branches
Planned participants for course 2025: 26
Not only the missions were challenging during the weapons instructor training, but also the weather conditions under which they took place
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The commander of the Air Force Weapons School, Lieutenant Colonel Pingel, the Chief of the German Air Force, Lieutenant General Gerhartz, and the Commander of the Air Force Air Force Command, Major General Klement, opened Jarvis in Laage
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The Joint Terminal Attack Controller, short JTACJoint Terminal Attack Controller, are the eyes of the pilots, just on the ground. In this case, they point a pilot of the helicopter CH-53 with green smoke to the landing point.
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Although the pilots fly at the physical and psychological limit during the weapons instructor course, they always have to stay calm and composed
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Round about 500 people took part in the final exercise of the weapons instructor course, Baltic Hunter 2023. The Missions were conducted both in the airspace over Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and on military training areas in the northeastern part …
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JTACs guiding the Air-to-Ground operation of an Eurofighter for close air support.
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Two Eurofighter of the 73 Tactical Air Wing „S“, armed with GBUGuided Bomb Unit-48, flying to Sweden.
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A collage with weapon systems of different departments, which took part in „Baltic Hunter“ 2019 - an exercise of the German Air Force - on the air base in Laage.
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Fliegerhorst Laage
Daimler-Benz-Allee 2W
18299 Laage
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Deutschland
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