Trident Juncture 2018

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Trident Juncture 2018
US M1A1 Abrams battle tank near Storås

Trident Juncture 18 , abbreviated TRJE18 was a multinational large maneuvers of NATO , which on 25 October to 23 November 2018 and to Norway was held. The exercise is part of the Trident Juncture maneuver series . Trident Juncture 18 is Norway's largest military maneuver since 1980 and NATO's largest maneuver since the end of the Reforger maneuvers and the dissolution of the Soviet Union .

At the same time, the “Northern Coasts 2018” maneuver took place in the Baltic Sea off Finland , in which more than 40 ships and boats and 4,000 soldiers from 13 nations were involved. The German Navy participated in the Baltic Sea with the corvette Erfurt (F 262) , the frigate Hamburg (F 220) , two minehunters of the Frankenthal class and a platoon from a coastal operations company .

assignment

In the exercise, the case of an alliance that is declared after an enemy force enters a state territory of a NATO member was simulated. “Southern forces”, formed by the Bundeswehr ( Germany ), Italian armed forces and British armed forces , fended off an attack by “northern forces”. The latter consisted of troops from the USA , Canada and Norway. In the second round, the "southern forces" simulated a counterattack on the "northern forces".

scope

Equipment transportation
Preparations for the major maneuver

Around 50,000 soldiers from 29 NATO member states as well as Sweden and Finland took part in the exercise. In addition, 150 aircraft, 70 watercraft and 10,000 ground vehicles were used in the exercise, as well as the NATO Response Force (NRF) with the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) under the leadership of German Brigadier General Ullrich Spannuth .

The United States is participating with the command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) , the amphibious transport dock USS New York (LPD-21) and around 2000 US soldiers of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), consisting of Parts of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) . The USA had brought numerous military vehicles and equipment to Norway with American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier (ARC) since the end of September 2018 . On October 9, 2018, the participation of the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was announced.

Germany sends to the practice about 8500 army - soldiers and several vehicles, including 100 combat and armored personnel carriers , among others, the panzerlehrbrigade 9 and the tank battalion 414 and parts of the mountain infantry battalion 232 , the Medical Regiment 3 , the Medical Training Regiment , the Armored Engineer Battalion 130 , the German Participation in the 1st German-Dutch Corps , the anti-aircraft missile squadron 1 , the naval aviation squadron 3 "Graf Zeppelin" , the tactical air force squadron 31 "Boelcke" , tactical air force squadron 51 "Immelmann" , the air transport squadron 62 and other troops.

Canada participated with two frigates (including FFH 332 HMCS Ville de Québec ), two coastal ships, around 2,000 soldiers and several aircraft.

Great Britain participated with the British Army and around 1,600 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Brigade and over 1,000 vehicles.

Italy sent around 1200 soldiers from the Ariete Armored Brigade .

By the Finnish Air Force Base in Rovaniemi also took American and Belgian fighter planes in the exercise part. Finland took part with nine F / A-18 combat aircraft, 160 air force soldiers and an amphibious unit with around 80 soldiers. Some 250 soldiers of the Swedish Pori Brigade with XA-230 armored personnel carriers tanks also participated.

The Turkey sent the frigate TCG Oruçreis (F-245) of Barbaros class , France's anti-submarine frigate Latouche-Treville (D646) of the Georges-Leygues class , Belgium, the frigate Louise-Marie (F931) of the Karel Doorman class , the Netherlands the De Ruyter (F804) of the De Zeven Provinciën class , Spain the frigate Cristóbal Colón (F105) of the Álvaro de Bazán class and the supply ship Cantabria (A-15) .

Sweden participated with the corvette Karlstad (K35) of the Visby class and Norway with the frigate Helge Ingstad (F313) of the Fridtjof Nansen class with the submarines Utstein (S302) and Uredd (S305) of the submarine class 210 .

This includes ships that are also involved in the multinational Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1) and Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2).

procedure

US Admiral James G. Foggo III leads the maneuver

The exercise was led by US Admiral James G. Foggo III , commander of the NATO main command Allied Joint Force Command Naples and at the same time commander of the United States Naval Forces Europe - Naval Forces Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF).

The exercise was structured as follows:

  • From September 2018: Troop and material transport
  • October 25 to November 7, 2018: Main exercise (LIVEX)
  • November 14-23, 2018: Staff exercise (CPX) at the Joint Warfare Center (JWC) in Stavanger
  • until December 2018: relocation.

On the ground, the exercise took place mainly in eastern Norway in Trøndelag (south of Trondheim ) and in Hedmark (north of Rena ). Air and sea exercises took place in the territories of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The purpose of the exercise was to review and ensure the operational readiness and combat capability of the NATO Response Force (NRF) and the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), including a capability test of the NATO command to organizationally integrate support forces into military operations. The latter review, which took place in the Joint Warfare Center (JWC), was also the certification of the Allied Joint Force Command Naples .

According to the Norwegian Armed Forces , NATO and the Norwegian Ministry of Defense provided 1.5 billion Norwegian kroner (the equivalent of 157 million euros) for the exercise. This financed 35,000 beds, 1.9 million meals, 4.6 million water bottles and 660,000 kilograms of laundry.

According to reports in the Icelandic media, 6,000 members of the NATO armed forces who were on the sea route to maneuver to Norway stayed in Reykjavík and stimulated the bars there with high consumption of beer .

On October 29, 2018, it was announced that the Russian naval navy would hold missile exercises in the Atlantic off the coast of Trondheim during the NATO maneuver from November 1 to 3, 2018, some of which are also located in NATO's maneuver area.

Accidents

On October 24, four US soldiers from the 51st Composite Truck Company were injured in a traffic accident in Kongsberg and two US soldiers in Rennebu on November 2, 2018 .

After participating in the maneuver, on November 8, 2018, the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad (F313) of the Fridtjof Nansen class collided with the tanker Sola TS in front of an oil terminal near Øygarden in the Vestland province . The frigate was so badly damaged that it sank five days later. The crew was able to leave the ship.

A Bundeswehr soldier from the 5th Company of Mountain Infantry Battalion 232 was hit by a civilian vehicle in Holtålen and died at the scene of the accident.

To the context

For a long time after the end of the Cold War, NATO had significantly reduced training for the alliance case. Since Russia occupied and annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014 , Poland and the three Baltic states ( Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia ) have felt threatened by Russia; they call for armament and more deterrence.

literature

  • Danielle Faccioli: Trident Juncture 18: Largest NATO maneuver in a long time. In: FliegerRevue , Volume 67, No. 2/2019, pp. 24–25

Web links

Commons : Trident Juncture 2018  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ www.forces.gc.ca
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  14. ^ Coast off Norway: Russian Navy exercises in NATO maneuver area. In: Spiegel Online . October 29, 2018, accessed October 29, 2018 .
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