Somewhere up there. In the dark. Above the clouds. Often invisible to the world quietly falling asleep below. To quote a classic — “someone stays awake so others can sleep.” And that’s exactly what it looks like. Alert duty, night scrambles, and a sky that is never truly empty. Here, French Dassault Mirage 2000s during a Baltic Air Policing mission somewhere over Lithuania. Very often, the silence on the ground begins high above the Baltic Sea. #BalticAirPolicing #Mirage2000 #FrenchAirForce #NATO #AirPolicing