On the progress of the NATO exercises Baltops-2015 in the Baltic
NATO continues military exercises Baltops-2015 in Eastern Europe. The maneuvers are attended by military personnel from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Poland. In addition, the invited and so-called partners of NATO - Georgia, Finland, Sweden. On 17 June, a large-scale landing operation is scheduled in the Polish city of Ustka (west of Gdansk). Before this, the NATO servicemen conducted, as they say, a “rehearsal” in Sweden.
The troops landed on the coast from the US Navy air cushion landing ships, the British Navy, the landing craft of the Finnish marines and the Swedish naval forces. The landing is also carried out from the air, for which British Lynx helicopters (Mk-8) are involved. The assault landing is covered by AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.
The combined landing force landed on the Swedish shores consisted of American marines 2 of the Camp Leigh’s sea expeditionary corps, forces drawn in the framework of NATO rotational activities on the Black Sea, as well as soldiers of the Swedish 1 infantry regiment, representatives of the British “commandos” .
The Baltops-2015 maneuvers involved about 5,6 thousand troops.
The troops landed on the coast from the US Navy air cushion landing ships, the British Navy, the landing craft of the Finnish marines and the Swedish naval forces. The landing is also carried out from the air, for which British Lynx helicopters (Mk-8) are involved. The assault landing is covered by AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.
The combined landing force landed on the Swedish shores consisted of American marines 2 of the Camp Leigh’s sea expeditionary corps, forces drawn in the framework of NATO rotational activities on the Black Sea, as well as soldiers of the Swedish 1 infantry regiment, representatives of the British “commandos” .
The Baltops-2015 maneuvers involved about 5,6 thousand troops.
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