
US And South Korea To Begin Coronavirus-Restricted Exercises
The allies will engage in battle simulation training for scenarios including a North Korean offensive.
The allies will engage in battle simulation training for scenarios including a North Korean offensive.
Regulars and reservists from the Army Air Corps have been sharpening their skills ahead of receiving the new AH-64 E Apache later this year.
Exercise Dynamic Victory saw every cadet wear the new Virtus 3 body armour system.
The training has been focused on a personnel changeover for those who could be deployed to the Caribbean during hurricane season.
The two-week exercise saw the largest British involvement in years with more than 500 military personnel taking part.
The combined exercise was held on Weddell – a private island, about three times the size of Brighton – that is home to only 43 people.
The maritime patrol aircraft is equipped with sensors and weapons systems designed for submarine hunting.
BALTOPS, the largest military exercise of 2020 in European waters, has ended after two weeks of testing naval capabilities.
The soldiers' training in Cumbria is being carried out in accordance with social distancing measures.
Despite the lockdown at home, UK personnel remain on duty around the globe.
The exercise marks the first of a 10-year training programme between Royal Marines and their Norwegian counterparts.
The UK is understood to have been the biggest non-US contributor on the major exercise, with around 2,600 soldiers involved.
The exercise is the US' largest transatlantic military deployment for an exercise in 25 years.
Exercise Cold Response in Norway has involved around 15,000 troops from 10 nations, including around 2,000 British personnel.
British troops are continuing their deployment to Norway on Exercise Cold Response but new measures have been put in place.
Exercise Winter Partisan is part of a bilateral programme between the two countries.