NATO Allies practise amphibious operations in Harstad, Norway to prepare for exercise “Nordic Response 2024”, as part of NATO exercise “Steadfast Defender 2024”. Troops from France, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, and Sweden have deployed to Harstad, Norway for exercise “Nordic Response 2024”.
Defense Now February – 2024
NATO Allies train in Arctic Norway
NORWAY
02.26.2024
“Nordic Response 2024” is part of NATO’s biggest exercise in decades called “Steadfast Defender 2024”, which sees 90,000 forces from 31 Allies and soon full NATO member Sweden train together across various NATO countries and multiple operational domains.
Troops participated in amphibious operations training as they got ready to engage in the field exercise, which is running from 3 to 14 March. Finnish, French and Swedish forces have embarked on the US Navy’s USS Gunston Hall, an amphibious assault ship. Meanwhile, the Netherlands Marine Corps have practised amphibious landings on Sandstrand beaches near Harstad. Additionally, Italian marines from the San Marco Marine Brigade have trained their sharpshooting skills in the freezing Norwegian Arctic.
Working together in such a hostile environment enabled these soldiers from several NATO countries to increase their efficiency and strengthen their resilience in order to operate in all climate conditions, while at the same time testing their ability to deploy from all corners of the Alliance.
Footage includes shots of the Netherlands Marine Corps practising amphibious landings, Italian troops from the San Marco Marine Brigade practising sharpshooting skills and getting trained by the Norwegian Army in winter survival skills, as well as members of the Finnish Nyland Brigade boarding USS Gunston Hall. Footage also includes an interview with the Commanding Officer of the US Navy’s USS Gunston Hall.
Film Credits: Courtesy Video
Natochannel
#NATO #ArcticTraining #NordicResponse2024 #MilitaryExercise #Allies #ArcticSecurity #Defense #TrainingExercise #Norway #Sweden #Finland #Denmark #Iceland #UnitedStates #Canada #Germany #UnitedKingdom #Netherlands #France #Belgium
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] need fore speee fore spee [Music] fore [Music] make I I hope [Music] off [Applause] [Music] sh [Applause] take this out but more of an angle like this [Music] f I got you you got to you got to get low there you go right CL my heart the steadfast Defender is a large scale live exercise that’s testing NATO’s defense plan so gunsen Hall is participating with the amphibious operations with steadfast Defender where we have embarked Swedish Finnish and French Landing force in order to help them practice doing amphibious operations in Arctic environment doing amphibious operations now during peace time allows us to work through interoperability issues language issues and help builds our efficiency and our resilience so that when crisis actually does happen that we are prepared amphibious operations are inherently complex because we’re talking about aircraft small boats ships troops all coordinating in sinking together and if you’re not communicating if you’re not interconnected between c4i systems and where you are in the battle space you may not necessarily be able to conduct an amphibious operation and the Arctic environment is a different environment than where we normally operate because we’re dealing with temperatures and beaches that we don’t normally work with we are happy to be here in hardstand Norway and we’re proud to be part of the US contingent for steadfast Defender
25 Comments
good night
Glad to see this. Soldiers need to be as tough as frozen Steel.
💙🫂🥶🫡
Ice Station Zebra
Port
What the hell is that? 0:55 A cross between a boat and a tank?
Lovely seeing our brothers and sisters working together. Together we are strong!
✌️🇺🇸👍🏻🏴🇬🇧
bör inte en prickskytt söka nya positioner hela tiden för att inte bli ny target?
Urho Kekkonen is twisting in his grave seeing Finnish conscipts on an American warship. What was in the head of Sauli Niinistö when Finland applied for membership in NATO? When American isolationism is back in force it will only mean that Finland again stands alone and "the branches of the Karelian pine will once again hit the heads of the Finnish politicians", Linna Tuntematon sotilas. Perkele
ukraine's and russia's
it's catastrohpe
I loved those "small" utilities (small trucks).
Natokiimainen Suomi. Fy fan!
Suomi-neito, joka myi sielunsa lännen paholaiselle. Fy fan!
Nice to see so many under the same umbrella work together. Having served for many years in the Norwegian Navy it is nice to see such big operations again take place.
Better to show some force to Putin. That is what he understands. Greetings from Finland.
Finland, Sweden! Congratulations! You are now sweating back. Say thank you to NATO! Poseidon, SARMAT, Iskander, Topol-M will fly from Russia with Love!
Their armies haven't been to real war, of course they need to prepare.
Aircraft 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Lovely to see all those varied country badges on their sleeves. NATO is an alliance like no other.
Norway Sweden and Finland what… army? 😂😂😂😂 Army?!!! Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so cute kitties in kindergarden play funny games
Russian one is army. Not Nato, not EU and of course not nordic. How long will these kids stay in real fight against Russia, 10 minutes? Nato political gaming is so stupid, needed to help US financing nato only. Not a single other reason.
Funny to see these russian trolss saying that could invade nordic countries in 10 minutes LOL
Finns at 4:04. Missa on sauna ?
those are very tough environment to work in. Respect to the military.