Bloomberg News
May 5, 2023

NATO Drills Sharpen Submarine-Hunt Skills in Russia’s Backyard

…Allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have spent much of the last 12 days scouring the seas off the coasts of Norway and Iceland for a fictitious enemy submarine, an exercise aimed at sharpening abilities to hunt for vessels deployed by Russia and other nations.

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Submarines are one of Russia’s advanced capabilities that have remained largely untouched in its war in Ukraine….

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As part of the exercise dubbed Dynamic Mongoose, which started April 24 and ends Friday, 12 NATO nations, including the US, Canada, Spain and Portugal, teamed up their marine patrol aircraft, surface ships and friendly subs….

The exercise took place in a strategic area for the alliance, the so-called Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, through which Russian vessels need to pass to access the Atlantic Ocean.

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