Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
UPDATE 3 April 2025 (AIR BASE) | For the first time since Sweden became a full NATO member on 7 March 2024, the Scandinavian country will send its indigenous developed SAAB Gripen fighter jets on live-armed NATO missions. Up to […]
Joint Viking, a sizeable military exercise in Northern Norway, has kicked off. It brings together about 10,000 NATO troops from Norway, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Military training ops are the […]
NATO is to base a battalion-size multinational force in Sodankylä and Rovaniemi in the north of Finland, Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen confirmed to Finnish national broadcasting company Yle this week. The news is one of the outcomes of the […]
For the first time since joining NATO, the Finnish Air Force protects the skies over Iceland. Four F/A-18 Hornet combat jets have been dispatched to Keflavik Air Base on Iceland and are flying daily air combat patrol over and near […]
The Swedish Armed Forces have joined their country’s first NATO mission on 7 February 2025. The 500 troops are now at full strength at Ādaži military base near Riga in Latvia, and since this day officially placed under NATO command. […]
If war breaks out between NATO and, let’s say, Russia, vast areas of Sweden will likely be left without a proper defence. This forecast has breathed new life into the commissioning of a territorial army of Swedes too old to […]
The Germany army brigade of about 5,000 troops settling as a permanent force in Lithuania will be equipped with brand-new Leopard 2 battle tanks. Moreover, Rheinmetall is likely to soon start construction of its own ammunitions plant in the Baltic […]
About 800 NATO paratroopers were dropped over Southern Sweden and secured the reserve airbase of Hagshult on Tuesday 7 May. The exercise is historic, as it marks the first of its kind since Sweden became a full NATO member exactly […]
The first ever deployment of a Finnish military unit as full part of NATO is a fact. On Tuesday 2 April, the mine encounter vessel MHC Vahterpää (42) sailed from its base in Turku (Pansio) to join the Standing NATO […]
As the last Scandinavian country, Sweden joined the military alliance of NATO last night. Although Sweden was not really impartial during the Cold War and was already part of the military cooperation of the European Union, NATO membership ends its […]
As a clear sign of the new geopolitical situation in the Arctics, Greenland has officially “joined” NATO with its own diplomat, as part of the permanent Danish political delegation to the military alliance in Brussels. Naalakkersuisut, which is the government […]
In its biggest exercise of the year the Finnish navy kicks off Freezing Winds ’22 on 22 November, with an for this training unusual high number of NATO participants. It is the first time since Finland applied for NATO member […]