NATO Allies Train in Finland 🇫🇮 | International Military Exercise 2026

Описание: Watch Finland hosting large-scale international military exercises alongside NATO allies, demonstrating strong cooperation, advanced training, and modern battlefield readiness. These joint drills highlight coordination between allied forces, including ground operations, air support, and tactical combat training.
Such multinational exercises play a crucial role in strengthening defense partnerships and improving interoperability among NATO members and partner nations. Finland’s strategic location and growing role in European security make these exercises highly significant.
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Note :-- members’ fire control systems. So this was a great testing opportunity for us and the Finns with ASCA. They were able to send us all of their fire missions from their forward observers straight to my battery operations centre and then down to my launchers.”
(07:55) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – CAPTAIN KURT ROSSI, BATTERY COMMANDER, BRAVO BATTERY 1-6, FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT, US ARMY
“They definitely had a great foundation already built and then so once they joined NATO, it was a pretty seamless transition for us to be able to integrate with them, utilising ASCA, utilising other means to be able to have our systems communicate with each other and then cooperate and train together.”
(08:14) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – COLONEL JANNE MÄKITALO, CHIEF OF ARMY ACADEMY, FINLAND
“The main essence of our defence system and the extra value for NATO is concerning our army and capabilities to fight a long-lasting warfare in deep, deep area. Many of the NATO countries don’t necessarily have this kind of capability but we do have.”
(08:36) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – COLONEL JANNE MÄKITALO, CHIEF OF ARMY ACADEMY, FINLAND
“Now I think it was a really important thing that we have this additional security guarantee which NATO presents and it’s not a one-sided thing that we are gaining, we are also providing. I think Finnish joining to NATO increases the safety and security in Europe and especially in the Baltic Sea region.”
(09:04) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAAKKO SALOMÄKI ‘AVARELL’, CHIEF OF OPERATIONS, LAPLAND AIR COMMAND
“We’ve been doing this for years already. It’s about joint air operations and behind that there are many things including the interoperability and connectivity and things like that. It’s about doing the same thing in the same way to be effective together.
(09:24) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAAKKO SALOMÄKI ‘AVARELL’, CHIEF OF OPERATIONS, LAPLAND AIR COMMAND
“The more we train and plan together the stronger we get, so we are really proud to be part of the NATO and glad to have partners training here together with us. For example in this air combat Arctic Challenge exercise.”
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