NATO is currently conducting two major naval activities – Dynamic Mongoose 24 in the North Atlantic and Neptune Strike 24-1, which involves four large-deck strike groups and spans both the Mediterranean Sea and Adriatic Sea as well as parts of the Baltic Sea. […]
Neptune Strike 24-1 began on Friday and ends on 10 May, and involves Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. According to a release by NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Naples, this will be Sweden’s first time participating in the Neptune Strike series since it joined NATO on Mar. 7. The release also stated that as part of the exercise, NATO will control units operating across the entire Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas, along with air units flying across Europe via air-to-air refueling and carrying out live-firing missions in the Baltic Sea and on firing ranges in Poland and Romania. […]
In the North Atlantic, NATO ships, submarines and aircraft are carrying out the Dynamic Mongoose exercise, which began on Monday and ends on May 10. “Exercise Dynamic Mongoose is an annual anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) exercise designed to prepare NATO maritime crews to respond and adapt to any type of threat from seabed to space,” reads a NATO release on the exercise.
The exercise will take place in the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom-Norway (GIUK-N) Gap with Norway hosting the exercise, which began in Stavanger, with elements scheduled near the Faroe Islands. Dynamic Mongoose 24 will end in Reykjavik, Iceland. Air bases in Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom will support the participating maritime patrol aircraft (MPA).
Submarines from the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States are participating in the exercise, including Swedish attack submarine HMS Gotland (Gtd) and likely nuclear-attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN-778), which was recently operating around Iceland. Surface ships in Dynamic Mongoose 24 are from Germany, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, Läs artikel