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On board the Dutch tanker leading a NATO task force
The flagship of the NATO task group hunting submarines in the Baltic is not a destroyer or a frigate. It's a tanker. #SNGM1
A day at sea on Sweden’s stealth sub-hunting corvette
Few get to sail on a Visby-class corvette. We spent the first day of NATO's Exercise Dynamic Merlin at sea on HSwMS Helsingborg as she and other NATO warships hunted a German submarine in the Baltic.
Inside Canada’s sub hunter on NATO Baltic exercise
We were given a rare look inside HMCS Ville de Québec, the Canadian frigate hunting submarines with NATO in the Baltic, from her upgraded sonar to a helicopter that can scan nearly half the Baltic in one flight.
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Canada’s bid to join JEF still under consideration
Britain and its Joint Expeditionary Force partners are still considering Canada's application to join, with no timetable set after defence ministers met in Iceland in October.
Smyrtos remains only shadow fleet tanker stopped by UK
The UK has interdicted only one Russian shadow fleet tanker, the Smyrtos, since boarding powers were extended in March, and ministers will not say if they weighed stopping another off Shetland.
Hide and seek in the Baltic – inside NATO’s submarine hunt
We were given rare access to the ships, crews and commanders of NATO's Exercise Dynamic Merlin, from a brand new Dutch flagship to a Swedish stealth corvette at sea as a German submarine surfaced in the Baltic.
On board the Dutch tanker leading a NATO task force
The flagship of the NATO task group hunting submarines in the Baltic is not a destroyer or a frigate. It's a tanker. #SNGM1
A day at sea on Sweden’s stealth sub-hunting corvette
Few get to sail on a Visby-class corvette. We spent the first day of NATO's Exercise Dynamic Merlin at sea on HSwMS Helsingborg as she and other NATO warships hunted a German submarine in the Baltic.
AVIATION NEWS
UK again commits to 138 F-35 jets
Britain's first F-35 procurement phase is complete with forty-eight F-35Bs delivered, as the Defence Investment Plan funds twenty-seven more 'on the way to a total of 138'.
New American stealth bomber begins testing powerful weapons
The US Air Force's B-21 Raider stealth bomber has demonstrated weapons release, taking the aircraft into weapons testing.
NATO must prepare for Russian nuclear use, says expert
Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, director of the Norwegian Intelligence School, has said allies must be prepared for Russia to cross the nuclear threshold.
Finland pushes EU to curb Russian tourist visas
Pasi Rajala, a Finnish State Secretary, has said Finland wants the EU to limit tourist visas for Russians, warning that not all Russian tourists entering the bloc are innocent.
Danish-Norwegian venture to service Nordic military aircraft
Terma and Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services have launched Defence Aviation Services, a joint venture to carry out maintenance, repair and overhaul on military aircraft in Denmark and support Nordic and allied fleets.
LAND NEWS
Ukraine truce must not rewrite Europe’s security, says UK
A Ukraine ceasefire cannot be conditional on rethinking Europe’s security architecture, says Foreign Office minister Lord Wood, urging no let-up in pressure on Russia.
Britons want to be ready for crises, says Security Minister
Britons are “pretty savvy” and want honest advice on how to prepare for crises, says Security Minister Dan Jarvis, citing polling that 84 per cent expect it from government. #AFF26
Germany must get allied troops east within a month
Germany must be able to move 800,000 allied soldiers from its western to its eastern borders within thirty days, says its defence policy director. #AFF26
Britain already on hybrid war front line, warns Sedwill
Lord Sedwill, chair of the Atlantic Future Forum, has said Britain is already on the front line of hybrid war, citing Iranian bots that pushed Scottish independence.
Putin is failing on the battlefield, says NATO’s Rutte
Mark Rutte, NATO’s Secretary General, has said Vladimir Putin is failing on the battlefield and in his hybrid campaign against Europe.
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