This week’s war-games at Rovajärvi training area deep into the forest between Kemijärvi and Sodankylä is the largest above the Arctic Circle in Finland this spring. […]
This winter and spring has seen the one multinational military exercise following the other. Reinforcement of the Nordic and Baltic countries in case of crisis is core to defense.
Northern Forest 24 will last until Sunday. A significant airlift of soldiers into the area takes place and the troops will be supported by long-range artillery systems, battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles.
The goal is to ensure that when the smoke clears, the giant forest area will be under control, deputy commander of the Jaeger Brigade in Sodankylä, Colonel Ari Mure, says.[…]
US Army earlier this spring unloaded more than 200 armored vehicles in the north Norwegian port of Narvik which drove across the snowy mountains into northern Sweden before continuing to Finnish Lapland for the large scale Immediate Response 2024 exercise. Läs artikel