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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.
The flagship of the NATO task group hunting submarines in the Baltic is not a destroyer or a frigate. It's a tanker. #SNGM1
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.
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.
The US Air Force's B-21 Raider stealth bomber has demonstrated weapons release, taking the aircraft into weapons testing.
Damen says the Dutch Navy’s new amphibious ships will be built in Romania, after a UK minister said that Britain would build all eight, including the Dutch four.
Britain will double its defence spending in ten years and is catching up with Germany, NATO’s Mark Rutte says, calling it an “incredible number”.
BAE says growth and margins in its maritime business remain subdued as the Type 26 frigate programme works through its first-in-class stage.
Russian activity in the UK’s maritime area of responsibility is up 41 per cent this year, says Defence Secretary Wes Streeting: "High North security is homeland security." #AFF26
A northern navies pact, Norwegian motherships for the Royal Navy, new drone deals and stark warnings on Russia: how the Atlantic Future Forum in Oslo delivered. #AFF26
