NATO vs RUSSIA - Nato Shows its Teeth to Russia with Huge Baltic War Games Drills

Mock landing in Poland, just over 100 miles from Russian naval hub Kaliningrad, is an exhibition of allied strength but some say it could send a dangerous signal US’s San Antonio, Britain’s Ocean and Poland’s Lublin – filled the horizon Russia’s most important naval bases, Kaliningrad, is just over 100 miles to the east, and the Kremlin may view such exercises as a provocation at a time of heightened tension over the Ukraine crisis Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, this week announced plans to buy 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles this year. The US, two years after pulling all its armour out of Europe, is preparing to send 250 tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery to bases in eastern Europe.

“The U.K. [Commandos] and [United States Marine Corps] work together often, so we have similar procedures. Working with the USMC, Finnish and Swedish Marines is great because it gives a lot of depth to what we normally do,” said British Capt. Christopher Viggars, U.K. Royal Commandos. “We’re adding that aspect into our training, which only helps us down the line if we did have to do operations with people who work with completely different kit (equipment), people we don’t operate with very often, and possible language barriers

BALTOPS is NATO’s multinational maritime exercise in its 43rd iteration. Along with the multinational amphibious force are 13 additional Allies and partners that come together in the Baltics to improve their capabilities to collectively respond to a range of real-world situations.

The relationships and improved capabilities built during the exercise allow the force to operate throughout the region, enhancing and refining a responsive force to defend the Baltics enemy amphibious assault is bringing the fight to their doorstep and if the beach is the only way we can get into their battlespace, then we can do that,” said Hunsaker. BALTOPS maritime and air forces from

operate in Poland, Sweden, Germany, and throughout the Baltic Sea to demonstrate air defense, maritime interdiction, and anti-subsurface warfare along with the amphibious operations. A Russian fighter jet conducted a dangerous aerial intercept of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft two weeks ago over the Black Sea, not the Baltic Sea as originally reported, in the latest sign of heightened military tensions between Moscow and Washington. However, it is unclear whether the May 30 incident between the RC-135 reconnaissance jet and a Russian Su-27 interceptor that flew too close was intentional or due to the pilot’s lack of flying experience, the official said. The stepped-up Russian aerial harassment comes also as U.S. and NATO forces currently are conducting large-scale war games in the Baltic Sea known as Baltops 15. Three B-52 bombers from the U.S. Strategic Command were deployed to Britain for the maneuvers. The naval exercise BALTOPS 2015 is bringing the U.S. Navy and its European friends and allies to a Nordic-Baltic region that is newly tense in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. The exercise also indicates that the Baltic Sea is playing a new role as a maritime space, and that anti-access/area-denial challenge is more than just a Pacific problem. Embarked on HMS Ocean are a series of Royal Navy, Army and RAF helicopters with these images captured from an RAF Chinook. Organised by Strike Force NATO, players in this year’s exercise come from Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, the USA and NATO partner nations Finland, Georgia and Sweden. disturbing picture of violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles, narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea, simulated attack runs, and other dangerous actions

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