SVT: German Troops Participate in Exceptional Gotland Defense Exercise
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Following recent security developments in Europe, Swedish and German NATO forces carried out a joint operation on Gotland on Friday.
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VISBY (ANP) - German and Swedish troops are practicing how to protect the crucial Baltic Sea island of Gotland if Russia threatens it. Swedish Gotland is considered the watchtower of the Baltic Sea and an indispensable link between the Baltic countries and the rest of Europe. Gotland had to be reinforced quickly...
German and Swedish troops practice how to protect the crucial Baltic Sea island of Gotland if Russia threatens it. Swedish Gotland is considered the watchtower of the Baltic Sea and an indispensable link between the Baltic countries and the rest of Europe.
The German and Swedish armed forces have launched a joint NATO operation to strengthen the defence of the island of Gotland, involving the transfer of air defence systems; the operation includes the rapid transfer of military systems to the island by means of a transport vessel accompanied by German and Swedish warships and fighter aircraft; the transfer of TASS with reference to the Swedish channel SVT. The air defence equipment is on board tra…
German units are rolling into Gotland today in a reinforcement operation together with the Swedish Armed Forces. The operation is a test of NATO's plans for how the island will be defended. - This is no ordinary exercise. The operation is being carried out for real and the forces are protecting the transport with real weapons, says Manne Fagerström at the Swedish Armed Forces' operations command.
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