From the Aviationist.
NATO’s Annual Nuclear Strike Exercise Underway In Southern Europe
NATO’s yearly “deterrence” exercise, codenamed “Steadfast Noon”, kicked off on Oct. 18, 2021. Dozens of aircraft from across the alliance are currently deployed to Italy and will carry out joint training during the 1-week drills.
[T]his year’s Steadfast Noon takes place alongside another exercise, dubbed “Cross Servicing” or “X-Servicing”, whose goal is to test the ability of each partner to service other nation’s aircraft at NATO airfield operating on their territory….
[T]he routine Steadfast Noon strike exercise is hosted by a different NATO country (or two) each year usually at two air bases where U.S. tactical B61 nuclear bombs are stored. This year, the two Italian air bases involved in the exercise are Ghedi AB and Aviano AB, in the northeastern part of the country. According to the Federation of American Scientists, 35 B-61s are stored at the two bases in Italy.
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Neat news & nice to know it was annual and not a SURPRISE excersize.
Found this from L.Rockwell from his webpage.
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The exercise is one that is held regularly. When non-scheduled nuclear drills are held – as we have to assume they are, and more and more frequently – the Defense Department is in no hurry to divulge the fact, much less any details. The U.S. has for several decades based B-61s in Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey, formerly in Great Britain, but the situation is far more dire now than it’s ever been before. If you look at other reports on this site from yesterday, you’ll see that NATO has acquired (after substantially upgrading) an air base in Latvia to match the ones it possesses in Estonia and Lithuania. All three countries border Russia. Also, there’s a story about U.S. nuclear-capable B-1 bombers exercising out of air bases in Bulgaria and Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia, indeed from Crimea. Under the recently initiated Bomber Task Force the Pentagon regularly deploys nuclear-capable B-1s, B-2s and B-52s along Russia’s entire western flank, from the Arctic to the Black Sea.
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As the meme says: “Russia wants war.
Look how close to our military bases
they are putting their country…”
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