Overview
- The first Italian contingent arrived in Emden on Thursday morning with equipment and vehicles, marking the visible start of the deployment drill.
- Germany serves as the logistics hub, with forces and materiel moving onward by road and rail to training areas in Lower Saxony and to Schleswig-Holstein.
- NATO’s Brunssum operational headquarters says the exercise verifies rapid deployment, reception, provisioning and onward movement under realistic conditions.
- The main training phase runs from February 9 to 20, followed by redeployment through mid-March, with activity centered on Bergen and Munster plus the Baltic Sea area near Putlos.
- Participants include Germany, Italy, Czechia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Spain, Lithuania, Estonia and Turkey, with operations across land, air, maritime, cyber and special forces domains.