BALTOPS 24 – the largest landing armada in the Baltic Sea

Organized annually by the U.S. Navy BALTOPS (Baltic Operations) maneuvers in their more than 50 years of past have undergone crucial transformations. Initially, they came down to a demonstration of the force of the North Atlantic Alliance and training to defend the Danish Straits against the attacks of the Warsaw Pact forces. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, they aimed to integrate fleets of states aspiring to NATO specified as Poland as well as the engagement of another countries under the Partnership for Peace initiative. So, as fewer people remember, Russian ships were involved. They are presently utilized to practice the scenarios of military operations in the Baltic as a consequence of current global situations and full cooperation with the armed forces of so-far neutral Finland and Sweden.