Overview
- The two-week exercise ran from June 5 to June 20 with vessels arriving in Kiel to mark its conclusion.
- Around 9,000 personnel from 17 NATO nations took part alongside roughly 50 ships and more than 25 aircraft in coordinated operations.
- Vice Admiral Frank Lenski said the maneuvers validated the German Navy’s readiness and deepened its cooperation with the US Navy.
- The commander of the US Sixth Fleet missed the final press conference due to commitments related to the Middle East situation.
- Johan Norlén, chief of the Royal Swedish Navy, noted an extraordinary surge in Baltic Sea activity over the past 18 months.