NATO member states have commenced the biennial “Northern Viking” military exercise in and around Iceland. The joint drills focus on strengthening collective defense capabilities, securing critical maritime sea lines of communication across the North Atlantic, and enhancing operational readiness among allied forces. As a founding NATO member without a standing military, Iceland relies on close cooperation with international partners to safeguard its territorial waters, airspace, and critical infrastructure amid evolving security dynamics in the Arctic region.
- NATO allies are conducting the “Northern Viking” military training exercise hosted by Iceland.
- The exercise focuses on maritime defense, air surveillance, and securing vital sea routes in the North Atlantic and Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) gap.
- Participating forces are practicing coordinated defense tactics, search-and-rescue operations, and the protection of critical infrastructure.
- The drills aim to improve interoperability among allied armed forces and reinforce NATO’s deterrence posture in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.
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I doubt fiber will survive the first 10 minutes of a shooting war. I would plan for low connectivity between the continents. There are much more important things to be training for. Like convoy and blockade training. Satellite connections cost would go up 100X. Definitely no Instagram or Facebook.
the Irony is that Icelanders are afraid of US more than Russia 🙂
America is the biggest threat to the arctic and world peace.
Well maybe it’s time for Iceland to get its own military.
Global South houses 90% of the world population and cannot afford to live under the control of the global West. Western economic and military hegemony has to be broken. Russia is at the forefront. The rest have to join. Humble opinion from India.
Russia open up the northern route for trade so NATO preparing for war there
Russia would never have a chance against the US and European navies in the arctic.
NATO is a joke
NATO IS A CLOWN ORGANIZATION …
Where? 😂🙈… you only have to travel a few hundred kilometers to go and smash some putins at our Canadian cousins' place…
Hey ho… ! … Russia is over there…
Seems bad
You can be guaranteed there has been a massive disinformation campaign by the Americans to sway the Icelandic vote.
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Are you joking?
One nuke all ships are gone.
Russia!!!😂😂😂?,
Obviously someone wants eussr to pay more for their sht coming from the east. They dont like arctic route
May as well, while you still have ships/subs.
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DW ANTI AMERICAN COMMENTS RIGHT ON TIME
We in Sweden are sending as of today ships planes and ground troops trained in hige end drone warfare with next gen drones. This is not as a exercise but a respons to Russias aggression. We will never leave a y Baltic country and even less Finland alone. We care about our friends.russia belive Nato are weak with out the states thats just wrong. Finland alone has Europa biggest artillery and 900k trained troops ready to call in Poland is a power house today too. Ruzzia would lose against Finland alone and now all of the north for the first time in ages are United that alone is a fight Ruzzia knows they can not win. On that now its not only the north its litterally every single country with the highest tech and money in the world va Ruzzia that has a gap before the war they started comparable to Spain alone. Ruzzia lost how many in ww2 vs Germany alone ? And that was with the Money weapons and support thevalloed sent them even with the front the west pushed. All Ruzzia has and they know it is nukes and to bad for them they are not the only one with them if one nuke goes off there will be no more Ruzzia litterally its over and even the mad man putler knows this. Now 200 ruzzian bots will run and commet how they are superior and they will you guessed it nuke and its out fault they do. Sadly for them that wont change the outcome of this war Ruzzia has already lost the question is how much will they lose everything or just some with the opertunity for redention in the future. One thing is sure tho we have been patient and we wont back down. Ruzzia say Nato expand still they dont get Nato dont do anything free countries make a request to join by free will. Nobody where a threat to Ruzzia nobody had any plans on going against them. All of Europe wa slotterally disarmed more or less not one thought of starting a war. Now ryzziabhas woken the titan sleeping now all of Europe unified are arming innovationg and making a stand. Now they have a enemy where there where no one before. They can still save this tho they can get rid of the dictator putler lay down their weapons say sorry and bring their troops back home to live and see their families again. Then pay for the crimes they have done. Sure their economy will crash their status gone its already but yea no saving that. And they will feel massive shame. But in time they will be forgiven and able to join the free and civilized world again as friends. Or they can use a nuke and there will be no future. Really even you rus bots do you think that is a good idea ? You feel like its worth too sacrifice your whole people family everything just because putler wanted to show he where a big guy and ukrane his land ? Your choice make your move we are ready.
Defending? 30 something countries defending fr9m a s8ngle country? sounds more like bullying than defending
There will be a nuclear war within 10 years.
Gross warmongers. The nato ponzi scheme… our tax dollars to arms dealers
Defending from Russia and buy russian oil and resources. hypocrisy
Why does the Arctic need defending from Russia?
Good. NATO should get ready and stay ready.
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One minute you Russia is losing and stretched thin in Ukraine and the other you claim they are only weeks away from attacking a NATO member. You must think all of your viewers have water on the brain. 😅😅
Biggest threat to Europe russian subs!
Sea route that is Russian, and Nato wants to harras ships
Abd btw tarrifs and lake America can't shear tie put by puppet master. What bunch of clowns
USA invaded Vietnam, Panama, Venezuelans, Iraq, Afghanistan… I'd rather be Russia's friend
Run silent. Run deep.
Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and UK is the gap.
What does Iceland care about Russian submarines? They don't. Is anther protection racket.
NATO is desperate 😂😂😂
Go Russia 🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪
The Newest Largest Russian Sub, fires POSEIDON Torpedo's, being Super Cavitation Nuclear Powered capable of 100 Knots (185 km/h / 115 MPH) under water, with unlimited range, SO they do not need to get very close to Iceland & NATO, but NATO needs to chase Drones moving at that speed …
0:17 Okay let’s be realistic about what you said it’s about “Russia invading Greenland” rather than the actual threat to the order of the world.
'Northern Shrimps' for the Arctic Bear 💪
Paper dragon 🐉 of lies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The colonial West, in its gluttony, no longer knows where to go, and they have invented an enemy, Russia, which they dragged into the war with the help of the Bandera regime! Unfortunately, they were faced with the reality that even the 23 countries that pumped weapons to the regime in UA, the Russian Federation still holds the dominance in the production of weapons and in any case NATO will not succeed in defeating Russia on the battlefield!!!
The Germans have no business in the Artic or Atlantic. We had enough of your German u boats. Stick to the Baltic Sea and your Danube river that has no water. Germans are not a maritime power.