Huge Nato air exercise under way that could cause travel chaos for holidaymakers
Exercise Air Defender 2023 will involve 10,000 military personnel and 250 combat aircraft and could impact flights this month.
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Exercises Commando flyers join the Portuguese air force during Exercise Montijo Merlin
846 Naval Air Squadron took part in search and rescue training sorties and simulated casualty evacuations with the Portuguese.
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Gurkhas Gurkhas join Australian Army and US Marines for Australian outback training
With temperatures soaring to 38°C, the troops also practised fighting street by street and building by building.
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Nato Exercise Griffin Shock marks milestone in history of Nato powers
A Nato multinational battlegroup has been reinforced, expanding from a battalion into a brigade for the first time in its history.
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Exercises Royal Navy divers help clear Baltic Sea of unexploded ordnance during Exercise Open Spirit
Delta Squadron of the Diving & Threat Exploitation Group safely recovered two ground mines and one torpedo two days into the exercise.
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Exercises Army's Global Response Force put to the test on Salisbury Plain
Exercise Wessex Storm sees 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR) and 1 R IRISH being challenged to prove their readiness.
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Sea vessels HMS Northumberland tests submarine hunting skills with Nato allies
The Royal Navy's HMS Northumberland excelled during the Nato-led Exercise Dynamic Mongoose alongside other allies in the Norwegian Sea.
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Nato Royal Navy to take part in Sweden's largest military drills in more than two decades
The Royal Navy will join 26,000 troops and 14 nations for training across the Nordic nation.
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Sea vessels Royal Navy shares mine-hunting tactics with US and French counterparts
The Royal Navy joined their French and US counterparts to take part in the Artemis Trident exercise in the waters of the Gulf.
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RAF RAF Typhoon squadron train with Jordanian pilots during Exercise Agile Oryx
Royal Air Force pilots have been developing operating procedures and formation flying skills with the F16s of Number 1 and 6 Squadrons RJAF.
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Royal Marines Bulgarian special forces team up with Royal Marines on biggest UK deployment in a decade
The units have previously been together on exercise in Bulgaria on Trojan Footprint.
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Royal Marines Royal Marines deploy to Korean peninsula for first time since Korean War in 1950s
They were involved in training in crisis response and disaster relief alongside the Republic of Korea Marine Corps and the US Marine Corps.
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Germany UK specialists join German counterparts to train in annual air logistic exercise
Both British units took part in the mass evacuation of Afghan people from Kabul airport in August 2021.
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Exercises British Army's future infantry leaders prepare to debunk the Brecon myth
Soldiers from the Union Division attended a precourse in Otterburn to get them ready for the harsh realities of training in Brecon, Wales.
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Navy Royal Navy completes world's second-largest maritime exercise
The exercise is second only to the long-standing, naval exercise run by the Americans in the Pacific.
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Exercises Cold weather survival: How Nato troops secure food, water and fire in harshest winter wilderness
For enduring a subzero Estonia winter the priority is initially heat and shelter, followed by water and food.